I am the biggest chickenshit on the planet. I saw Paranormal Activity

[xultar]

and I lol during the movie.

I don't get the people who say they were freaked out and couldn't sleep.

WTF?

Maybe it would have been more frightening to me if I'd watched it @ home but it was not scary for me at all.
I'm kicking myself for falling for the hype.

[Forkboy]

1. I'm having a hard time believing that first part.

:rofl:

I haven't seen a movie that was actually scary since seeing the movie Threads way back in the mid 80's. After that any so-called horror movie just ain't scary anymore.

[xultar]

2. I didn't go to my first haunted house until I was in my 30's. Maybe I'm not

a chickenshit. But I know the movie had no impact on me at all.

[donco6]

3. ?? Never HEARD of it?

I think the last movie that scared me was Jaws. Yeah, laff it up. But I swear I didn't swim in a lake for 15 years.

[Forkboy]

5. My father, with his ever present sense of humor, took me to the beach the day after we saw Jaws.

Is it any wonder I ended up deranged? :)

The first hour of Jaws is pure horror, the second half pure adventure. The opening scene is still one of the creepiest moments in movie history, imo.

Here's the Threads wiki page....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. The opening scene of "Jaws" still scares me

I've seen the movie countless times, but when that girl starts being pulled down into the lake, it still scares the hell out of me.

[xultar]

7. Jaws is scary. Way more so than Paranormal Activity.

[donco6]

8. It reminds me of the hype around Blair Witch.

Unfortunately, I saw the SNL parody before I saw the actual movie and it was totally ruined for me. All I could think of was watching for the snot running out of stocking cap girl's nose as she cried.

[geckosfeet]

9. Sharks in a lake? Not bloody likely.

[donco6]

11. Did that matter? NOOOOO!

Hey I was like, 12, at the time.

And have you ever gone swimming in a muddy Kansas lake? You can't see 2 inches. You don't know WHAT could be down there . . .

[Clintonista2]

15. I don't even close my eyes in the shower because of that movie

As soon as I do, I picture the open mouth coming at me LOL

[Occulus]

19. Was it this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ&feature=related

Full film, in 12 parts on YouTube.

[endless october]

4. is it sort of blair witch? n/t

[Rick Myers]

6. It was made for virtually no money...

I think $11,000... It's about a couple, poltergigsts and security systems... Sounds clever...

[Justyce]

20. To me, Blair Witch was scarier than Paranormal Activity.

If you thought Blair Witch was lame, don't waste your money on Paranormal Activity... yawn.

[BlueJazz]

10. I saw it. Not scary...just the same ol' crap. Might be fine for 8 year olds.

[MiniMe]

12. The only movie that every really scared me was Poltergeist

I don't know why, but I couldn't sleep that night. I was fine when I was with my friends at the movies, and at their house after the movie. But when I got home to my apartment and was by myself, I got creeped out.

Jaws was scary, especially that first scene. I jumped so much in the boat scene that I pulled a muscle. But it didn't really scare me, it was more startling than scaring.

[Occulus]

18. Poltergeist scared the living hell out of me.

First real horror movie I ever saw- I think I was eight or nine at the time.

To this day, I close the closet door before I go to bed. If I notice it's open, I get up and close it.

[FormerDittoHead]

13. I found it disturbing, and it affected me, but it wasn't that good to see it in the theater.

SPOILERS, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. DON'T READ THIS UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN IT.








Upon the movie's ending, I THANK GOD I didn't go out and see it in the movies, so I'm really sorry about anyone shelling out to see this. It's not worth THAT.

But I have to say that I WAS truly affected, but I'll be specific.

First off, I think Hollywood has a lot to learn about this. You don't need the quick-quick MTV editing and a $200 million budgets to evoke feelings and tell a story. They make these $200 million movies and they end up being sold for $15 8 months later anyway. What's the point?

We've seen so many of this jerky-camera action (and this movie has a lot of it, yes) but the most eerie moments were when the camera didn't move at all.

Stanley Kubrick understood when to move the camera fast, when to move it real slow, and when to screw it to the floor. This movie shows that it can work.

Second. Say what you want about the low production values, but talk about Micah (whatever his name was) truly had me going. I fucking hated him. I didn't care so much about the woman, but boy-oh-boy did I hate that guy. Unlike most horror (if I'd be forced to categorize this movie) protagonists, I didn't think he was stupid when he did stupid-ass things, I just hated him. And so on that level the movie worked.

My first and biggest problem was that he got an expensive video camera, but what was it, like lux 7 sensitive? I had a lux 7 video camera (my first) and the thing practically needed direct sunlight to get a decent picture. Don't they make low-light cameras now adays? And then spend 40 minutes of the film trying over and over to make a porn flick. She just wasn't into it, asshole.

BUT third, the whole idea of presenting those things which happen while you're asleep were very disturbing, because it's the universal experience. It worked, especially the bits where she stood next to the bed for hours. Truly creepy.

Going into the attic was truly harrowing, but as was the theme of the movie, a non-event.

Lastly, however, the ending/non-ending was a giant let down but at least it 'let me off the hook' in that it took me from being DEEPLY disturbed and involved and put me directly into the 'pfffttt'.

[oedura]

14. The shower scene...

...in Psycho used to make me stick my head out of the shower for a quick look around if I thought I heard a noise.

The Zuni fetish doll sequence from Trilogy of Terror freaked me out when I first saw it at the age of 6-7, too.

Combine the two, and you had me nervous in the shower, afraid to close my eyes to wash my hair because I might get stabbed or a Zuni fetish doll might bite my nads off.

[a kennedy]

16. as a kid saw "Darby O' Gill and the Little People" scared the h*ll

out of me....that banshee, iridescent ghost thing, wow, really freaked me out. :scared:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052722/