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Paranormal Activity
I had never heard of this movie up until today. They reviewed it in the new Entertainment Weekly and it got me interested.
| "EW" Wrote: | Exactly 10 years ago, The Blair Witch Project divided audiences every bit as much as it unsettled them. So when I say that Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity, a haunted-house thriller shot for $11,000, was made very much in the peekaboo-verite spirit of Blair Witch - and that, in fact, it may be an even scarier film - you could find that frightening in one of two ways. You might say, "Cool, I've got to see that," or you may think, "No, I won't get fooled again!" What I can tell the Blair Witch skeptics is that in that movie, you never really did get to see very much, but in Paranormal Activity you do, you honestly do - though in a slow-build way that's freaky and terrifying.
The entire film takes place in the two-story San Diego home of sweet but spiky Katie, who claims to be plagued by demons, and Micah, her obnoxious boyfriend, who totes around a video camera to record evidence that those spirits are real. The two joke and bicker, but at night we see them asleep, the camera at a fixed angle in their dankly lit bedroom. The shot keeps skipping ahead, hour by time-encoded hour, until stuff starts to.. spook. With its this-is-really-happening vibe, Paranormal Activity scrapes away 30 years of encrusted nightmare cliches. The fear is real, all right, because the fear is really in you. A- |
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That's funny, I had just read the same article (in EW) and have been researching it for the past day or so.
I NEVER see horror movies, ever. Period. And yet, I kind of want to see this. I know in the end I won't, if only because I enjoy sleep, but if there were a way to view the film without freaking myself out for weeks I would. It sounds fascinating, enough that I read every article and spoiler I could about it. I love that it was made for just $14,000 or something like that. |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, October 3rd 2009 At 3:17 pm |
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It played in 33 cities across the country and sold out every one of them. ARRRGH. I have to see this.
Unfortunately it only plays at midnight, which really sucks because I work at 4 am. |
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| Message Posted On Saturday, October 10th 2009 At 1:35 pm |
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Nice movie...Paranormal Activity is a thrilling movie .I like the each and everything about this movie....
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