New PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 Trailer Is Not Better with Kinect; Plus Reactions to Early Cut from Fantastic Fest

A new trailer for Paranormal Activity 4 has gone online.  I haven’t seen any of the movies, but this one shows yet another use for Microsoft’s Kinect: discovering spooky stuff.  This brings the grand total of reasons to own a Kinect to still zero.  Also, there’s a creepy child involved, so if you’re terrified of dead-eyed 7-year-olds who can’t reach things on high shelves, then this movie will probably scare the pants off you.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer, and to read reactions from Fantastic Fest attendees who saw a work-in-progress cut of the film.  Paranormal Activity opens October 19th.

Click over to Apple to see the trailer in HD.

And here are reactions to the workprint from folks who saw it at Fantastic Fest:

 

Paranormal 4 is a lot of smart set pieces in search of a compelling ending.

— Eric Vespe (@EricVespe) September 27, 2012

 

Seems I’m one of the few who appreciated PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4. It’s clearly rough, but some good ideas and fine interplay. It’ll get better

— PeterSHall (@PeterSHall) September 27, 2012

 

I’d be shocked if the final cut of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 doesn’t have big changes. It’s very much so a workprint.

— PeterSHall (@PeterSHall) September 27, 2012

 

PA4 doesn’t work. At all. Work print aside, it’s boring, silly and does NOTHING for the mythology. Disappointed after the awesome PA3

— timbuel (@timbuel) September 27, 2012

 

Withholding true judgement until final cut but that PA4 work print was not pleasing to me.

— timbuel (@timbuel) September 27, 2012

 

PARANORMAL 4 is the most legit funny installment, and strangely the most violent. Last third feels incomplete but maybe it is – we saw a WIP

— John Gholson (@gholson) September 27, 2012

 

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 goes down like mild picante. Weak. Sauce. #FF2012

— Trevor T. Trujillo (@TrevorTrujillo) September 27, 2012

 

Paranormal Activity 4 as a WIP is already an improvement over PA3. Love that these movies built almost completely on tension are hits.

— Alex Spivey (@alexspivey) September 27, 2012