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Paranormal Activity
I have been so excited to see this movie, mainly because of all the fantastic reviews I heard and because I knew it would be like Blair Witch, which is a movie I really enjoyed. When it was released here, I started hearing negative reviews, but I still wanted to see it, so today, I did. It.. Was.. Freaky. Okay, the movie itself wasn't the most insane, but it relies on the "unknown" factor much like Blair Witch does, and the "what if this happened to me" sort of thing. At first, doors just open and close, just random stuff like that, and everytime at night, it builds up, to the point where you get like, stiff in suspense when the scene turns to their bedroom and the hallway at night. There were scenes that actually ran chills through my back.. A loud noise followed by a swinging chandelier the second night was one of the first scares, but then the guy laid out some baby powder to try and see if he could get the footprints, and you could hear steps, and eventually you could hear it run, and the door slammed. So they turned the light on and the footprints only went in the room, but not out. Since I believe in Paranormal stuff, it creeped me out pretty good, and for more spoilers, just something simple like showing the bedsheets rising in the middle of the night was creepy as ****.. Until eventually it pulls her out of bed. The screaming in the end scene was pretty chilling, and when the movie ended, the lights stayed off for five minutes, and nobody would get up until they turned the lights on .
So, simple, low budget, not a super exciting premise, but very effective and creepy. I'll be buying it although I don't think it will ever have the same effect as the first time on the big screen.
8.5/10
Paranormal Activity
I have been so excited to see this movie, mainly because of all the fantastic reviews I heard and because I knew it would be like Blair Witch, which is a movie I really enjoyed. When it was released here, I started hearing negative reviews, but I still wanted to see it, so today, I did. It.. Was.. Freaky. Okay, the movie itself wasn't the most insane, but it relies on the "unknown" factor much like Blair Witch does, and the "what if this happened to me" sort of thing. At first, doors just open and close, just random stuff like that, and everytime at night, it builds up, to the point where you get like, stiff in suspense when the scene turns to their bedroom and the hallway at night. There were scenes that actually ran chills through my back.. A loud noise followed by a swinging chandelier the second night was one of the first scares, but then the guy laid out some baby powder to try and see if he could get the footprints, and you could hear steps, and eventually you could hear it run, and the door slammed. So they turned the light on and the footprints only went in the room, but not out. Since I believe in Paranormal stuff, it creeped me out pretty good, and for more spoilers, just something simple like showing the bedsheets rising in the middle of the night was creepy as ****.. Until eventually it pulls her out of bed. The screaming in the end scene was pretty chilling, and when the movie ended, the lights stayed off for five minutes, and nobody would get up until they turned the lights on .
So, simple, low budget, not a super exciting premise, but very effective and creepy. I'll be buying it although I don't think it will ever have the same effect as the first time on the big screen.
8.5/10