Producers Oren Peli and Jason Blum have signed up Jason Pagan and Andrew Stark to pen the fifth installment of the ultra-successful Paranormal Activity franchise. The duo are dab hands at found footage movies as of late, with time-travelling camcorder-em-up Almanac due for release in February, while the Michael Bay-headed found footage sci-fi thriller Raindrop is currently entering production.
No word yet as to any plot details for PA5, or which - if any - of the current cast will return, but I think it's safe to say that Katie Featherston, at least, is bound to show up at some point.
Katie ponders whether the demon will ever return their duvet
The franchise took a welcome break from this Halloween season to regroup, after a frankly abysmal fourth movie that was so nonsensical that it also retroactively stopped the first two films from making any sense, so badly acted that you could see the demon-fodders bracing themselves in the harness before being "thrown" across the room, and most criminally of all, so devoid of scares that the only possible emotion one could feel while watching was crushing boredom.
As poor as the fourth installment may have been, though, we can't help but hold out hope for the fifth - the third film is still an absolute horror classic thanks to that ingenious oscillating camera. Here's hoping that some of the old magic is still there.
Forget Freddy or Jason, that motherfucking fireplace is the biggest villain in horror history.
Paranormal Activity 5 is released on October 24th 2014. But if you can't wait that long for more of Toby's antics, the latino-themed spin-off Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is out on January 3rd.
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