The underutilization of found footage is completely unforgivable, causing the movies best asset to become its weakest link.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2023

There are too many elements of film that never quite land

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Once it gets to the third act, it goes hard. It also has one of my favorite climaxes I’ve seen in a found footage film, as the action and horror become unrelenting. It knows what it wants to be and it delivers on the scares in the third act.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2022

Next of Kin isnt as bad as might be expected, and at least takes us off in a fresh if not original direction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2022

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin is a bit of a missed opportunity to really go all-out, as this reboot is too indistinct. It can hardly be considered kin to this particular IP.

| Feb 12, 2022

It is hard to look at Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin as anything but a failure. The film tries to resurrect the clearly dead franchise to grim results.

| Feb 12, 2022

While it may not be exactly the movie that die-hard Paranormal Activity fans may be expecting, the fact that Next of Kin plays around with expectations in such a clever way here works in the film's favor.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 20, 2021

It's an interesting choice to amp up the six-years-dormant series, and we'll see how that shakes out over time.

| Nov 12, 2021

This incarnation of the Paranormal Activity films is plenty effective... These actors are just excellent at playing the material.

| Nov 6, 2021

It's probably one of the best Paranormal Activity movies they've made in the past several years.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 5, 2021

It doesn't feel like a Paranormal Activity film, and while it does finally capture some nice intensity in the third act, there just isn't much else this film does well.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 4, 2021

The atmosphere is ominous at times, but things seemed to ramp up far less than expected.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 3, 2021

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin has its moments, but not enough of them to warrant a recommendation.

| Nov 2, 2021

Dull and derivative, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin misunderstands the fundamentals of the found footage sub-genre to almost disastrous effect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2021

It's been a good while since audiences have even had a [good] found-footage flick...here is sub-A24 tomfoolery that looks like every scary movie made in the past six years.

| Nov 1, 2021

While the characters are dumb, audiences will still be roped into the story, especially because of the isolated setting.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 31, 2021

Too much here betrays the notion that we're watching found footage, and some fairly big questions remain unanswered at the end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2021

Characters choices in this film, like going spelunking in what's obviously a killin' hole, is akin to the cast of Jaws wondering what would happen if they did stick their heads down the shark's gullet.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 30, 2021

...this never, at any point, feels like a Paranormal Activity movie...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2021

'Paranormal Activity: Next Of Kin' upgrades the cinematography but sacrifices scares in this year's chilly yet underwhelming continuation.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 29, 2021