Paranormal Activity

The only scary thing about this film, and most scary films are the silent parts.
When it goes quiet, you're expecting some thing to happen, so if I'm on my own watching, I'll turn the volume down until some thing happens.

Thats what I found with this movie, it got tense in those parts. Other than that, it was no more scarier than Blair Witch.
 
Watched this last night and, as expected, it didn't really live up to all the hype (does a film ever?). There were some creepy parts but overall I found it vaguely irritating. Mainly because:

Why did they not seek help earlier on or find another demonologist to help them?

Why leave the bedroom door (and all the other upstairs doors) open every night?

Do these people not understand how light switches work?

I know there has to be a certain amount of suspension of disbelief with films of this genre but when you start thinking about the unrealistic actions of the characters, it detracts from the enjoyment of the film.

I preferred the Blair Witch Project, as the sense of mounting horror and hopelessness of the situation was more 'believable'.
 
It was rubbish! Not scary in the slightest. Everything was so cliche and sign-posted. It was so obvious, if you see the scare coming, it's not scary.

I found myself looking at Katie's breasts for most of the film
 
I haven't got the DVD yet, but when I saw it at the cinema it frightened the living daylights out of me (guess I didn't help myself buy seeing it late night).

The thing about PA, for me, is it isn't full of gore and visuals to shock. It's psychological, it plays with your mind, because you don't know what happens when you're asleep. I'm not really a fan of the horror genre, but I think that not seeing something is scarier than seeing it..y'know?

Something Oren Peli said in an interview really struck with me; he said something like if he had hired someone such as Brangelina or someone well established, the audience would be more than aware it's this person, and their attention wouldn't focused on the actual narrative but more on the actor/actress, and so would probably miss something. I think that's why PA had such a big imapct I think, because Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat weren't known, it added a realism to it (as a girl in my cinema experience, when the film finished she said "Oh my godd! She might be in this cinema!" :D)

I know PA has been a bit of Marmite-film, with people saying "It's not scary". You might not find it as scary as other films, because it's not like the typical horror film. It's a psychological thriller kind, which relies on mind games, rather than gore. But I loved it, even if it did terrify me and I didn't sleep that night.
 
Just finished watching this with my bro, and it was pretty creepy, and disturbing, but amusing at the same time.

I don't think I would have been so amused if I had watched this film alone, at 1am, in a house with nobody else there - Infact I'd probably be bricking it.

So my views - A good horror movie, but way more effective if watched in the right environment.

To get the ultimate effect - Watch it alone when nobody else is in, with all the lights off, and very late at night :eek:
 
Me too.

I prefer Psychological Thriilers. Seeing gore really doesn't affect me at all, nor do cheap loud chainsaw noises with an immense flashing up on screen.

The Ring is my favourite scary film. I couldn't be left with a TV alone after that. . .and became a bit of a freak looking up websites and forums and stuff for some of the background to the story.
 
I suppose it will be different people? They've said theyre going to have to come up with a really good idea.
Haha I love Blair Witch 2, even though everyone else seems to hate it.
 
Can't believe this film has made so much at the U.S. box office! Thought it was alright - but found it a lot less scary than the BBC's Ghost Watch!
 
Just watched it and my review is thus...

Dull, dull, DULL!

Not a single scare. Very predictable. Blair Witch Project in a house really.

I really ought to stop watching horror movies as i have become totally desensitised to them.

Sorry to all you fans out there but it really did absolutely nothing for me.
 
I was lucky because me and a mate went to watch it this afternoon and I think, including us, there were only 5 people in the whole cinema so it made it easier to settle in to it and get into the spirit of it.

I really liked it. Thought it built at a decent pace and the final scene really gave me goose bumps.

I've actually watched the alternate ending on the copy that's floating around online and I can really see why they ditched it - really doesn't work.
 
Totally agree. I appreciate that, like The Blair Witch Project, they did well to make a successful movie on a shoestring budget but scariest movie ever?!?! At least we had a good laugh though eh :p
 
Watched this a few days ago,good movie,not the scariest ever though lol some pretty freaky scenes,i really jumped at the scene where the entity screamed,id have been out that house like a shot lol the scene in the loft was good 2.
 
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