Film review: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES, from Built For Speed

The first two instalments in the Paranormal Activity horror movie series created a genuine sense of terror by subtlety placing intensifying supernatural events in a believable everyday setting.  The story of an average person being targeted by an evil force recalled the demonic threat of The Exorcist while the home-movie found-footage aesthetic gave the films a disturbing verisimilitude. Subsequent instalments

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Film review: THE CONJURING, from Built For Speed

With films like Cabin In the Woods pulling apart horror movie tropes and the Scary Movie series lampooning the genre outright, it’s a much more difficult task for a filmmaker to scare audiences these days than it was in the past.  It’s a credit to James Wan, the director of the new supernatural horror movie The Conjuring, that, for at

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