Margot (Emily Bader) was abandoned as a child and wants to learn the truth about her past. When she does a 23andMe test, she discovers that she’s Amish. Samuel (Jaye Ayers-Brown) is a relative who is currently experimenting with Rumspringa. He invites Margot and her cameraman Chris (Roland Buck III) to come to the farm. Yes, Margot has a cameraman because she thinks her journey to find her roots would make for a great documentary. Yes, this movie is supposedly made up of footage that Chris filmed. Samuel and his relatives are smart enough to trick Margot into coming to the farm so that they can give her body to a demon, but they’re not smart enough to do anything about the cameras filming them.

Why is this even a Paranormal Activity film? It has nothing to do with any of the previous Paranormal Activity movies, the majority of which were pretty stupid, but at least tried to maintain a consistent story. This movie is about Amish people sacrificing people to a demon. It’s not even the same demon that previously haunted Katie and Kristi. The only thing this movie has in common with the other films is the found footage gimmick, but even in this case, it screws things up by being too slick. There’s none of the roughness that a found footage movie needs to be credible.

Lisa has a theory that people make movies about the Amish because they know the Amish will never see them. I think this movie proves her right. I would have called it “Paranormal Amish” and gone out of my way to make sure my name didn’t appear in the credits.