The sixth movie in the paranormal Activity series sees the Fleege family Ryan (Chris J.Murray), Emily (Brit Shaw) and daughter Leila (Ivy George) move into their new home. It is just before Christmas so they are joined for the festive celebrations by Ryan’s brother Mike (Dan Gill) and Skylar (Olivia Taylor Dudley), a new age hippie type who’s place in the family is never defined (at least not as far as I could ascertain). Mike stumbles across an old video camera and some tapes in the basement. The tapes contain various snippets from the previous movies and when looking through the camera there seems to have a weird effect of seeing shapes which cannot be seen normally while at just about the same time Leila starts speaking with her new friend Toby. Cue the usual speight of strange noises, weird occurrences and shadow appearances which we have seen in the previous movies. Needless to say the situation escalates to the point where the family need to search the history of the house to try and explain what is going on and to save their daughter from being taken by the demon.

It’s about time to put these movies to bed once and for all as this is essentially a cut and paste of pieces of the previous five films with the usual scenes viewed through the point of view of the camera broken up by something zipping across screen, some ridiculously lazy moments in the script where characters suddenly have a way off left of center idea in order to explain a situation and who make ridiculous decisions for people who are in their situation. The one potential redeeming feature this movie is when it is realised that in some of the old video tapes the people on screen are describing the exact scene we are watching in this movie, which is quite an interesting concept and gives some semblance on the linking of the events to the past, is barely touched upon.

This is rumored to be the last movie in the series and on this basis then I hope this is true as it’s time to send this series into another dimension where it can never bother us again.

DJ Speaks Rating: 4.5 Out Of 10