Movie review: Paranormal Activity gives goosebumps
By Evan Malone
Last Updated:4:47 PM EST 11/17/09 Section: Lifestyles
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During the last 30 minutes of the movie, you'll realize that this isn't your typical scary movie.
Paranormal Activity is told as a mock documentary. The same way the movie The Blair Witch Project terrified people in 1999, Paranormal Activity will scare you today. Or worse.
The movie starts out very slow lyand dully. A young couple, Katie and Micah, estimated to be in their mid- to late-20s, live in a suburban home in San Diego.
Katie has said that there has been "something," possibly a ghost that has been bothering her since she was eight years old. Micah buys a fancy camera to record them in their sleep to see if anything happens.
Nothing notable happens in the first couple nights. The couple talks to a psychic who tells them there is a spirit that has been with Katie since she was a little girl. The psychic also tells them that the spirit feeds off of negative energy.
As the movie goes on, Micah becomes more and more skeptical of his girlfriends ghost and starts to swear at it and call it names. This provides for a few good laughs.
Micah seems to anger the spirit with his negative energy. As the nights go on, more and more terrifying things happen to the couple.
Eventually Micah truly believes that something is in his house and he won't stop until he gets to the bottom of it. Katie begs him to stop recording numerous times and fears that he is making the force mad by taunting it.
After what seemed like 90 minutes into the movie, about the time the viewer thinks he or she wasted $10, it starts to get very good.
Each night of filming Katie and Micah's sleep, something different happens. This ranges from the door slamming shut to things falling in the house.
The feeling you get when watching this movie is different than a typical horror film. Many times throughout this movie I had to remind myself it was fictional because of the style of filming that it was done in makes it seem so real.
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zara
posted 11/07/09 @ 1:35 PM EST
this is a shame I am a lead investigator for OTOS and I think it is a shame to mock what us ghost hunters have been trying to prove for some time now shame on all the mockers out there and for telling people this is just something in just there head when me myself have felt the power of what a ghost can do shame on you shame on all of you . (Continued…)
bita
posted 11/07/09 @ 4:20 PM EST
are you kidding me? there was nothing scary about this movie, if it was a reenactment of the a real story, then yeah it would have given me a goose bump or two, but other than that there was nothing in this flick that you would not see weekly in paranormal state or other shows like that on TV. (Continued…)
Darlene
posted 11/07/09 @ 5:34 PM EST
I thought it was really scary, 10 mins into the movie i was about to change it cause it was slow, but then it started to get creepy, I guess its so scary because it manifest your own ideas about what might be standing at the foot of the bed, invisible creeping under your bedsheet or watchin you sleep
Craig
posted 11/08/09 @ 2:02 AM EST
Just watched this movie... was very disappointed. When I hear people say that a movie is realy scary, my first instinct is to not believe them. This movie in no way has changed my mind. (Continued…)
james
posted 11/08/09 @ 11:06 AM EST
Are you kidding me!? this movie was hilarious, i saw it with 2 friends one of which liked scary movies and one of which didnt like scary movies, i didnt like them either. (Continued…)
Dawne
posted 11/08/09 @ 10:01 PM EST
Just watched this movie after I was told it was the scariest movie ever.....was totally disappointed!!! Other than a couple of loud bangs (which would scare anyone), there wasn't even anything startling about it. (Continued…)
Marisa Natal
posted 11/09/09 @ 11:29 AM EST
i thought the movie was funyy and i almost soaked mii panties!!!!i jumped a couple of times it was creepy....
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Josh
posted 11/10/09 @ 12:15 AM EST
This movie made me want to punch these two in the face.If Katie hated the camera so much,why did she hold like 3 or 4 times.I have to admit though,It was a little scary,but the acting was annoying,I guess cause I knew the movie was fake like in 30 minutes of the movie. (Continued…)
john
posted 11/21/09 @ 4:27 PM EST
Do not pay any money to se this movie it was sososo bad.My wallet fills malsted.(raped)If you think the blair witch was bad,you need to see this one.If you fill you need to give your mony away,sind it to me. (Continued…)
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