I think at this stage everyone and their badger has heard of Paranormal Activity. Its the movie that was made for $11,000 dollars, $15,000 dollars or 3 camels and a goat, depending on what you read. Either way Paranormal Activity is gone well north of $100 million dollars in the USA alone.
The idea here is incredibly simple. Boyfriend / Girlfriend live together. Girlfriend is followed by a demon. On occasion they hear a few things go bump in the night. Boyfriend then decides this is the best excuse to go an splash out on a fancy camcorder. Said camcorder is more or less surgically attached to his hip until he unhooks it and places it on a tripod to record the bumps in the night in the bedroom. And that's the story essentially. All done in the Blair Witch “found videotapes” style.
An unknown cast more or less improvise all their dialogue for the duration of the movie. And it never shows. There’s a great performance here for the 2 main characters and no matter how much I fought it, I couldn’t fail to get sucked in. Paranormal Activity does indeed suck you in, but it takes a bit to get caught up in it. Excluding the occasional bump in the night, the first 30 minutes are full of conversations with the happy couple. But once things get going, this movie comes at you like an out of control freight train.Its pure and utter psychological warfare on the viewer, mainly caused by a sound effects track that will have you wishing you were deaf. Your hair will stand on end and your arms will produce a mountain range of goose bumps that you never thought humanely possible. And by the final scene and the Spielberg suggested ending you will be thrilled its over and then wonder why you never brought a clean pair of underpants.
Paranormal Activity is an incredibly simple movie with little or no special fx and no giant monsters, but it is incredibly well done. Its been described as the scariest movie ever made and I have to agree. I never in my life of watching movies have had so many chills. And I mean ice cold, full body chills. So much so that I could have stuck an ice cube tray up my ass and made ice cubes. Paranormal Activity is much more than a movie, its an actual psychological experience. Just bring clean jocks!
The idea here is incredibly simple. Boyfriend / Girlfriend live together. Girlfriend is followed by a demon. On occasion they hear a few things go bump in the night. Boyfriend then decides this is the best excuse to go an splash out on a fancy camcorder. Said camcorder is more or less surgically attached to his hip until he unhooks it and places it on a tripod to record the bumps in the night in the bedroom. And that's the story essentially. All done in the Blair Witch “found videotapes” style.
An unknown cast more or less improvise all their dialogue for the duration of the movie. And it never shows. There’s a great performance here for the 2 main characters and no matter how much I fought it, I couldn’t fail to get sucked in. Paranormal Activity does indeed suck you in, but it takes a bit to get caught up in it. Excluding the occasional bump in the night, the first 30 minutes are full of conversations with the happy couple. But once things get going, this movie comes at you like an out of control freight train.Its pure and utter psychological warfare on the viewer, mainly caused by a sound effects track that will have you wishing you were deaf. Your hair will stand on end and your arms will produce a mountain range of goose bumps that you never thought humanely possible. And by the final scene and the Spielberg suggested ending you will be thrilled its over and then wonder why you never brought a clean pair of underpants.
Paranormal Activity is an incredibly simple movie with little or no special fx and no giant monsters, but it is incredibly well done. Its been described as the scariest movie ever made and I have to agree. I never in my life of watching movies have had so many chills. And I mean ice cold, full body chills. So much so that I could have stuck an ice cube tray up my ass and made ice cubes. Paranormal Activity is much more than a movie, its an actual psychological experience. Just bring clean jocks!
