Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 20, 2011Haunting Found Footage Film
The Paranormal Activity series still manages to produce a reasonable amount of eerie scares and jumps a third time around, although by now the claim to still being found footage is starting to strain credulity

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
Rating: ★★
Oct 20, 2012Haunting Found Footage Film
The Paranormal Activity series has had a better run than most horror franchises up until now but the cracks are starting to show through here. This feels like it is straining to find some new way to do the familiar moves but fails to provide anything unexpected or original

Nerve (2016)

Nerve (2016)
Rating: ★★
Nov 20, 2016Internet Site That Offers Deadly Challenges
This is like an online version of 13 Sins about an internet site that pushes people to take increasingly more outrageous and eventually deadly dares. One of the new thrillers centred around social media that seeks to adopt its visual look, this is slickly polished and aimed direct to the teenage demographic

Viral (2016)

Viral (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 26, 2016Plague Outbreak/Zombie Parasites
Effort from the near-ubiquitous Blumhouse that is constantly confounding expectations – a plague outbreak drama but not quite, a zombie film but not quite. In the end, not a great or groundbreaking film but certainly a modest one that takes things in some interesting and original directions

Project Power (2020)

Project Power (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 29, 2020Superpower Drug
Suffering superhero fatigue from screens overwhelmed with Marvel and DC adaptations? This is one of the most original superhero treatments in some time, concerning a drug that give the user superpowers for five minutes only

Secret Headquarters (2022)

Secret Headquarters (2022)
Rating: ★★
Apr 14, 2024Kids Discover Superhero Lair
A kid makes the discovery that his father is a superhero and he and his friends amuse themselves with the cool gadgetry in his secret headquarters, before being required to defend it against a villain