Paranormal Activity

Wyndon · 11-01-2009, 08:06 PM

I saw this movie last night. I do not get scared at "scary" movies, at all. It's been years and years since I've been scared at a movie.

I was pretty tense by the end of this movie. But that's not the worst part.

This movie sticks with you. I was pretty scared last night, and it took me several hours to fall asleep.

This never, ever, ever happens to me. I'm extremely impressed with the movie and a little ashamed that I was actually affected by it. If you think you are not scared by movies, watch this movie.

What are other people's thoughts?

bluestarultor · 11-01-2009, 08:18 PM

What exactly is it about? Is it the alien one, or something else? I have a passing interest in the paranormal, so I'm just wondering if it's ghost stuff or what.

Pip Boy · 11-01-2009, 08:19 PM

I was kind of dissapointed. I've always enjoyed letting myself get a bit scared during a movie like this, but this one just didn't work for me. My eyes got a bit wide at the part where The girl got drug out of the bed and into the other room and started screaming, and of course at the very end where she stabs her fiance and the cops shoot her, but overall the whole movie felt like the calm part of the horror movie that gets you ready for the scary part. and then no scary part.

EDIT @ Blue: A young couple moves into a new home and suspects there may be a ghost or supernatural presence of some kind. The man buys a camera and starts using it to try and record any signs that there might be something inhuman in the house. The entire movie shows only the parts caught on tape, and sometimes scenes are implied rather than shown (the only part of this movie that I actually found interesting). If you're usually interested in paranormal type stuff, then this is good, but I found it lacking as a general, all-purpose 'scare the shit out of you' movie.

Magni · 11-01-2009, 08:29 PM

I watched it last week, not in a theater mind you. It wasn't scary. I really don't understand the hype this has received.

Maybe it was the lack of theater atmosphere.

Wyndon · 11-01-2009, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Megaman FTW

and of course at the very end where she stabs her fiance and the cops shoot her, but overall the whole movie felt like the calm part of the horror movie that gets you ready for the scary part. and then no scary part.

Uh....did you watch this movie in a movie theater? Because that was not the ending I saw, and I saw it in a theater...

This movie is not a jump out and scare you type of movie, like Drag Me to Hell (which was laughable). I don't consider a movie like that scary. This movie is a tense kind of movie that sort of evolves as it goes along.

Also, I would say a theater setting is absolutely necessary for the movie to have an effect; on t.v. or on a computer I could how it could it be kind of boring and ignorable. When it's in your face, too huge to look away, and the silence is deafening...yeah, that's when it has an effect.

Geminex · 11-01-2009, 10:43 PM

I haven't seen the movie, but it kinda sounds like the Blair Witch Project goes Suburbia.

synkr0nized · 11-02-2009, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Wyndon

Uh....did you watch this movie in a movie theater? Because that was not the ending I saw, and I saw it in a theater...

Wait, when did you see it? There are, oh, three endings I think, but I heard the original screenings/prior to big studios' involvement is the one where she kills him and gets shot . It seems that's not what Paramount went with? Did they pick the one where she is shown slitting her own throat or the one where the guy is tossed at the camera and she comes in and ends up attacking the camera ? I don't actually know the real "original" of those three.

Mirai Gen · 11-02-2009, 03:36 AM

Wait, are they going with multiple differing endings? That's kinda sneaky of them, I heard of the ending with the camera attack.

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Originally Posted by Geminex

I haven't seen the movie, but it kinda sounds like the Blair Witch Project goes Suburbia.

Then you should watch this.

Magus · 11-02-2009, 01:06 PM

Version I saw on Halloween was the camera-toss followed by her attacking the camera, which compared to the other two you guys have mentioned sound even lamer than I thought it was.

I didn't think the movie was particularly scary, I liked some of the things they did, such as setting fire to the Ouija board and the burnt photo from her childhood home up in the attic, apparently where the demon has been "staying" right above their bed, and the loud footsteps and so forth, but I felt the ending was way too anticlimactic. I wanted it to build up to an epic storm. I wanted the house to shake, the windows to blow out, I wanted what's-her-face getting up in the middle of the night and Micah finding her carving pentagrams into her flesh, and the house burning down, and her like cutting his head off and tossing it at the camera while there's demonic laughter/chanting and then her laughing wildly as the roof collapses. And maybe some bloody/fiery pentagrams appearing on the walls. Instead we get an ending which just didn't work properly in my opinion. I have to echo Micah's sentiment to the demon, "Is that all you've got?" It should have been more extreme. Her cutting her own throat would've been a definite step up from what is in theaters now.

DarkDrgon · 11-05-2009, 04:39 PM

I felt the movie had some potential, but it was pretty lacking alltogether. There was so much buildup to too little a payoff.

11-01-2009, 08:19 PM	#3
Pip Boy Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: A right and proper Nerd Cave Posts: 2,460	I was kind of dissapointed. I've always enjoyed letting myself get a bit scared during a movie like this, but this one just didn't work for me. My eyes got a bit wide at the part where The girl got drug out of the bed and into the other room and started screaming, and of course at the very end where she stabs her fiance and the cops shoot her, but overall the whole movie felt like the calm part of the horror movie that gets you ready for the scary part. and then no scary part. EDIT @ Blue: A young couple moves into a new home and suspects there may be a ghost or supernatural presence of some kind. The man buys a camera and starts using it to try and record any signs that there might be something inhuman in the house. The entire movie shows only the parts caught on tape, and sometimes scenes are implied rather than shown (the only part of this movie that I actually found interesting). If you're usually interested in paranormal type stuff, then this is good, but I found it lacking as a general, all-purpose 'scare the shit out of you' movie. Last edited by Pip Boy; 11-01-2009 at 08:23 PM.

11-02-2009, 01:06 PM	#9
Magus Archer and Armstrong vs. the World Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 7,164	Version I saw on Halloween was the camera-toss followed by her attacking the camera, which compared to the other two you guys have mentioned sound even lamer than I thought it was. I didn't think the movie was particularly scary, I liked some of the things they did, such as setting fire to the Ouija board and the burnt photo from her childhood home up in the attic, apparently where the demon has been "staying" right above their bed, and the loud footsteps and so forth, but I felt the ending was way too anticlimactic. I wanted it to build up to an epic storm. I wanted the house to shake, the windows to blow out, I wanted what's-her-face getting up in the middle of the night and Micah finding her carving pentagrams into her flesh, and the house burning down, and her like cutting his head off and tossing it at the camera while there's demonic laughter/chanting and then her laughing wildly as the roof collapses. And maybe some bloody/fiery pentagrams appearing on the walls. Instead we get an ending which just didn't work properly in my opinion. I have to echo Micah's sentiment to the demon, "Is that all you've got?" It should have been more extreme. Her cutting her own throat would've been a definite step up from what is in theaters now. __________________ The Valiant Review

11-05-2009, 04:39 PM	#10
DarkDrgon Always Trick Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 978	I felt the movie had some potential, but it was pretty lacking alltogether. There was so much buildup to too little a payoff. __________________ [color=red] Kneel before the Lord Drgon, or you will be knelt.

11-01-2009, 08:29 PM	#4
Magni Change has come. Keep your dignity. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 218	I watched it last week, not in a theater mind you. It wasn't scary. I really don't understand the hype this has received. Maybe it was the lack of theater atmosphere.

11-01-2009, 10:43 PM	#6
Geminex SOM3WH3R3 Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 4,606	I haven't seen the movie, but it kinda sounds like the Blair Witch Project goes Suburbia.