
I had heard that people who see this film are haunted by it for days and have trouble sleeping. All the build-up had me eagerly anticipating this movie as a tense horror classic. Unlike District 9 which actually exceeded my expectations (I know, some of you are saying "why don't you just rename this blog as 'Blog! There's District 9...'?"), Paranormal Activity was a complete let down. The movie isn't all that bad but it does nothing revolutionary and fails to haunt the viewer to the core as advertised. The premise of the film revolves around a couple in San Diego who have been dating for three years. The woman (Katie, played by someone named Katie) has been experiencing a little poltergeist action off and on since she was a little girl. Her boyfriend Micah (played by someone named Micah) is a technophile who decides to try to capture the hauntings on film to study them further.
The entire movie takes place in their house and most of the action occurs at night. The filmmakers do a good job of presenting time lapsed events through the night and some of them are scary for sure. The use of sound is well done to heighten the overall effect. There is a good amount of tension throughout, but after a while I was thinking to myself "is this all there is?" Maybe I'm desensitized and can handle creepy noises and implied paranormal experiences more than the average person, but I just never got to the point where I was terrified by what I was witnessing. The final 10 minutes of the movie take the story a bit too far and I no longer felt like I was watching "real footage" of an actual event. I don't want to give the plot away, but the last few scenes just didn't seem very authentic.
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