Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) | How Woke Is It?

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Paranormal Activity 42012

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What We Think

Paranormal Activity 4 isn’t interested in pushing any kind of woke message. Its only agenda is delivering some good, old-fashioned scares. If you’re looking for culture war content, you won’t find it here.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Paranormal Activity 4 is focused on supernatural horror and relies on the found footage format. The film, as far as we can tell, makes casting and character decisions for traditional genre reasons, not for ideological signaling. The story isn’t hijacked for identity politics, and diverse representation is not a noticeable feature.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Not Woke

What is this?

This is your typical horror flick, there’s little engagement with, or commentary on, religion, family, or traditional values. No real attempts to undermine or mock cultural foundations, morals, masculinity, or family structure. It’s basically a straightforward haunting scenario.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Not Woke

What is this?

There’s really no ideological messaging here at all. Paranormal Activity 4 is more interested in jump scares than moral lectures. No one is pushed as a caricature for their worldview, nor does the script shove a particular ideology down your throat.

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