Nature Trail to Hell

At long last, Jordan and Stefan watch the 2007 Spanish found footage film, REC – which may as well be a bonus episode for our Night of the Living Dead series! This is the final episode of our Paranormal Activity run, and we reveal which series we'll watch next for our upcoming season.

In 1992, seven years before the Blair Witch Project, the BBC aired a fictional ghost-hunting program – but didn't tell the British viewing audience that it was all staged. The show caused a real-life panic over the paranormal events that it depicted. Jordan and Stefan visit this haunted house for the first time – will they also lose their minds with fear? Also, boy is there a lot of talk about gloryholes, for mostly very innocent reasons.

For many, this is the grandaddy of all found footage films. While not the first, it certainly kickstarted the raft of films that followed in it. This time, Stefan has seen it but Jordan has not. Let's get lost in the woods!

Jordan and Stefan watch the Unknown Dimension documentary on the entire Paranormal Activity series and discuss the pleasures and frustrations of this highly uneven franchise. Plus a preview of the upcoming bonus episodes. Spoiler: there might be even more found footage in their future.

The series reboots (?) with an pandemic-era streaming movie. And maybe, just maybe, with a whole new visual language, setting, and mythology. Jordan and Stefan try to figure just what makes a Paranormal Activity movie a Paranormal Activity movie. Does this one count? Let's find out.

Wait, I thought this series was about demons, not ghosts. What's even happening? 

Jordan and Stefan watch the fifth Paranormal Activity and wonder: who are the marked ones and will we even really know what that means at the end? Probably not, since this series seems to have the most confusing and contradictory lore of any series we've watched so far. But we'll find out!

The action moves to Henderson, NV...and brings with it the most inscrutable plot twist in the series so far. WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING? No, really, somebody explain it to us.

We've had two suburban Southern California homes, each with some demon infestations. For outing three, maybe we'll get another one? Only one way to find out.

Second film, higher budget, more lore – where does the Paranormal Activity franchise go after the runaway success of the first film? Turns out it's another house in suburban California. Twice as scary for 15 times the budget? Let's find out.