Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity

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Paranormal Activity

Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Michael Bayouth, Amber Armstrong, Mark Fredrichs

Katie and Micah are enjoying a happy and carefree existence. Their future looks promising until bizarre events begin to occur at night. In order to get to the bottom of things, Katie and Micah purchas...( read more  read more... )e a video camera to find out what happens at night while they sleep.

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  • December 6, 2009
    A masterclass in hype. The issue with Paranormal Activity is that - for it's budget - the film is impressive, yet it is also this level of experience that begins to show as a weakness when taken in it's theatrical context. While the film knows how to scare, it tends to rarely pus...( read more)h these scares to the extremes that it is begging for. It moves at a slowly inclining pace, yet tends to become more predictable as it's tension rises throughout. The film is watchable - even enjoyable at parts - but for it's level of showcase it's script becomes a telling sign of filmmakers learning their craft.
  • December 5, 2009
    This movie scared the piss out of me.

    There. I said it.

    After all the hype, all the Blair Bitch Project comparisons, bla, bla, bla, I'm glad I got to watch this in a DARK ROOM by MYSELF. Because it was terrifying.

    Now, I'm not normally scared at all by horror movies. In f...( read more)act, I think that most are utterly laughable (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Grudge, and A Nightmare on Elm Street were all hilarious). But fuck me sideways! I was talking to the TV...I never do that and it pisses me off when people do it in movie theaters. But I was totally going..."No bro! Don't go up there! Don't go up there! Fuck! Fucking....FUCK! Don't do it! BROOOOOOOOOO" and I literally had to pause the fucking movie 3/4 of the way through and take a few deep breaths to continue. I was a butt fucking 8 year old kid watching this! NOTHING has ever done this to me before...except fucking Fantasia when I was 4 years old and left the theater crying for some reason. I've NEVER been this scared when watching a movie EVER. PERIOD.

    Yes, this is the scariest movie I've ever seen. BAR NONE.

    What creeped me out the most was the fact that barely no conventional horror techniques were used. There were no quick cuts, cheap CGI or visual effects, or monster hiding in the shadows techniques. No no no! This flick went OLD SCHOOL...and reminded us all that what's NOT seen is always scarier than what you show us. My imagination was running wild on this beast.

    There's not much to say about the filming of the movie itself. The director comes up with a scenario, hires two unknown schmoes to film (in his own house) and they wrap in a week. The acting is a little lame at times, I'll admit that, but SO WHAT. The point of the "script" wasn't to portray witty dialogue and interesting characters. The point was to present itself as if it doesn't exist...so that we're left thinking we're watching actual evidence of a "fictional event". What's weird is that even though you are constantly reminded there is a video camera being held by an actor filming the whole thing, I never felt like I was watching a movie. I felt like I was watching two REAL people video taping one scary ass demon in their house for a span of a month or two.

    This movie was like a youtube movie sent from hell...it reminded me of those creepy videos you watch until a zombie-looking creature leaps out in front of the camera and makes you temporarily shit your self (you prarie dog a little bit but don't quite defecate). Except, in this movie, you not only have a fecal evacuation...you end up shitting all over yourself five or six times. Something about how real it all seemed just got to me. Fucked me up!

    Now I know some of you laughed your whole way through the movie, didn't find one ounce of it scary...and thought it was fucking retarded. Some of you thought BWP was scarier...okay that's cool. But to me, this was one horrifying movie made for less than half of a USC graduate thesis by a crew of actors and filmmakers with less experience than anyone at ANY major film program. BVP AT LEAST had some experience from its two directors (Sanchez and Myrick) with a previous directing credit or two on their resume before this movie. I really applaud Peli...first time filmmaker doing more with less money than anyone has done all decade...another reason we can all say FUCK YOU UWE BOLL SACK.

    Enough. I'm tired. I'm just freaked out. I only write long reviews like this when I've seen a movie that really got to me. And man... this one sure did.

    Go see it now.

    PS: Before I forget, I refused to watch the trailer, read any reviews, or know anything about this movie coming into it. I was very smart.

    I ALSO didn't watch the theatrical cut...I saw the ORIGINAL cut...and the ending was AWESOME and not as stupid as the theatrical ending I've been reading about. So do yourself a favor and watch the original. NOW. NOW.

    ...

    GO WATCH THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEERrrrRRRRING MOVIE
  • December 5, 2009
    Don't believe the hype.
  • December 2, 2009
    A huge, huge disappointment. One (1!) scare throughout the whole thing. I don't question the craft, but I do the idea: it's BWP and [Rec] mixed together... with a cheap, clever marketing stunt thrown in. Fuck, high expectations are a bitch! :(
  • November 21, 2009
    pre fuckin scary akthough it's an extremely low budget movie the things that happened each night was creepy as fuck but like many movies could have been much better.gave me goosebumps on some parts though 7/10
  • December 7, 2009
    I was more amused by the grown ass men sitting in the row in front of me shitting themselves everytime eerie music started to play. I found the movie repeatative and boring... according to everything, anything or anyone who have written, seen or promoted the movie this was suppos...( read more)edly and possibly "the scariest movie ever" er.. lame.

    The "entity" was uber lame simply because I thought the entity's shadow looked somewhat human unlike its footprints.. so I pictured the Entity as Dave Grohl (Satan in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny) and you could always pick what was going to happen next because Katie or Micah would make subtle hints. FUCKING LAME.

    I want this movie to die.
  • December 7, 2009
    int tht bad realii freaked me out wen she got drag outa bed
  • December 7, 2009
    That there are so many obvious horror movie tricks and turns in a movie that is supposed to be selling the idea of realism through its method of cinematography is reason enough to disregard this as nothing more than a cheap attempt at dough from a major Hollywood studio. But add ...( read more)in two characters are completely hopeless, and the sever lack of anything slightly terrifying, and the end result is a film whose bark is worse than its bite. Seriously, do not get caught up in the hype of its clever tricks; Paranormal Activity is all marketing and no substance. Quite easily the worst movie of the year.
  • December 7, 2009
    well....it really made me scream....hahahaha.....
  • December 7, 2009
    filmnya lucu ..^_^
    cuma liatin orang tidur doank...
    tapi sensasi horrornya beda....good movie

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