Paramount+ has released the first Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin teaser for Paramount Players and Blumhouse’s upcoming reboot of the hit found-footage horror franchise. The film is currently slated to make its debut on Friday, October 29, just in time for this year’s Halloween season.
The video, which you can check out below, teases the new installment’s setting which is very different from the house setting in previous films. It seemingly takes place in a cult-like environment, where a young woman is being welcomed back into a community, whose members might potentially be involved in some kind of supernatural ritual.
This Halloween, The Activity is Reborn. #ParanormalActivity: Next of Kin premieres exclusively on #ParamountPlus Oct 29. https://t.co/ox4dp5JerD pic.twitter.com/bKvS2UxB8P
— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) September 17, 2021
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Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin is directed by William Eubank from a screenplay by Christopher Landon, who served as the primary screenwriter for the series having penned the script for the second through fourth entries. He also had written and directed its spinoff The Marked Ones in 2014.
The reboot stars Emily Bader, Roland Buck III, Dan Lippert, and Henry Ayers-Brown. It will be set as the seventh installment in the long-running horror film series, which is being described as the “unexpected retooling” of the franchise that has come before.
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Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin is produced by Jason Blum, and the first film’s original writer-director Oren Peli, with Landon, Steven Schneider, and Jenny Hinkey set as executive producers.
Since its launch in 2007, the original film was followed by five sequels, exploring the different corners of the vague mythos established in the first film and culminating in 2015’s 3D sequel, The Ghost Dimension. The six movies have brought in over $890 million worldwide, an impressive haul for their micro-budgets and setting the series up as one of the many fan-favorite horror franchises in the mid-2000s.
