Paranormal Activity reaches the "spooky puritans" phase in this trailer for Next Of Kin
Paramount Plus' reboot of the horror series seems to be making some stylistic shifts
On a long enough timeline, most horror movie franchises set in the United States eventually come back to puritans or the Salem witch trials or olde-timey curses from Europe. After doing enough movies about some evil thing, Hollywood inevitably decides that it wants to know why something is evil, and America’s history naturally lends itself to stories about people who were unfairly persecuted… or who committed unfair persecutions. Basically, it always turns out that somebody was right, whether it’s the people accused of being witches or the ones doing the accusing. The Paranormal Activity series finally seems to have reached this milestone, which means this will probably be the last one before someone comes along with a good idea for a back-to-basics reboot (unless this one’s a huge hit and Paranormal Activity fully lives again).