Audience reaction to Paranormal Activity.

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Bailey0825

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The whole cinema was in stitches throughout most of this film. It was treated like a dark comedy.

How did the audience react at your local cinema? Is this a typical reaction? The media made it seem like it was the scariest film in the world. Apparently not to Hatfield.

Feel free to add any memories you might have of occasions where the audience have reacted in similar adverse ways to any other films.
 
yeah, whats the deal with that? i'd heard its been out for a while but how come it only seems to be getting a cinema release and any publicity now?

anyway, i actually did think it was quite scary. it built the suspense and the tension well. the camera running while they were sleeping and guessing that something was going to happen but not knowing what or not knowing when, made people jump when it did happen. i can't think what people would think was funny about it.... there's a lot of stuff in horror that can potentially be hilarious but can't think of anything in this that would make me laugh. maybe the fact that the boyfriend was such a tosser might have helped i suppose
 
They were mostly laughing towarRAB the end when the woman was standing over her boyfrienRAB bed. You know when the camera seemed to be speeding up.

I read the film was a new release. I hadn't heard of it years ago.
I guess it just took a while to be distributed.
 
ok got it...

the ending i saw had it that when the cops arrived, the girl seemed to snap out of what trance she was in, got up and started asking for her boyfriend, she started freaking out and the cops saw she had a knife, they told her to drop it but she was going crazy so they shot her.

the other version i heard had her coming upstairs after dispatching the guy, possessed by whatever it was and staring into the camera before trashing it
 
Yeah I saw the last version.

How comes you've seen two versions? I didn't realise there was two out there. Did you see it twice at the cinema? Was it different each time?

Sorry about all these questions. :)
 
i heard about the 2 versions when i was reading some forum posts on the film. a search on google video threw up clips of both endings...

you might need to do a bit of browsing to find them as its breaking the copyright to post them so the sites tend to take them down not long after someone uploaRAB them
 
More or less true - it was made in 2006 actually as a student movie. The original plan was to refilm it with a bigger budget, but apparently Steven Spielberg saw the original and was apparently so impressed, he said they should release it as is.

To be honest, I was vastly disappointed with it anyway.
 
I loved it, except the last few seconRAB which spoiled it -
the lunge at the camera.
My friend was really scared by it. I thought it was well creepy, but it didn't scare me - until a few days later when I felt very nervy at bedtime. lol
 
I thought it was completely unscary and I sort of felt let down by it :/ About half the cinema were laughing hysterically and the other half obviously were dumb enough to think the footage was real...the girl behind me was going 'OH MY DAYS WHY ARE PEOPLE LAUGHING THIS SHIT IS SERIOUS MAN' :D
 
I've found that peoples impressions of the film depend almost entirely on the audience at the screening.

I went to see I think on the Wednesday after it was released and a few frienRAB had already seen it, a couple said it was really really scary and 1 said that the whole cinema was laughing at it throughout and it was just a load of crap. When I went the whole cinema went completely silent whenever the "night #x" caption came on screen because we were expecting something to happen, and I found the film really creepy, brilliant building up as the demon built it's power to possess and would definitely rank it as one of the scariest films I've seen.

Since I watched it I've read in here almost identical to what I experienced, either whole cinema is on the edge of their seats and found the film somewhat scary or a couple of people in the cinema taking the p*ss enRAB up with everyone laughing at the film and thinking it's complete crap.
 
I only watched this today (with my parents, as it happens) and it was sooo boring!! I am simply dumbfounded at these people who are saying it was scary, I can't understand!

Granted, there were 3 parts of the film that scared me, but it was soo slow and the end was the best part!

It was absolutely awful and a joke. In cinema it probably seemed scarier, but for 90% of the film, absolutely nothing was scary in the slightest. Definitely not one I'll have nightmares about, and I'm a wimp!
 
I'm surprised by this thread. My wife and I also found it crap. We sat there and thought about turning it off but left it on hoping it would get going but it was just rubbish until she got dragged off and that was at the end! I have said to many people we thought it was rubbish and everyone else we have spoken to loved it. I don't get why people raved about it so much.
 
I thought it was crap, the only thing scary in it was right at the end when she went at the camera and even that wasn't that scary.

Most people in the cinema were laughing at it tbh, how people can think it's really really scary I have no idea :confused:
 
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