Paranormal Activity. anyone else like?

[terryg11]

I did. I love scary movies and this one was good, the premise was right on.
What else is scarier than things that go bump in the night and if you could get some proof of that by videotaping your bedroom at night?
The end is great!
I know I'm going to come off as a big chicken but I watched this thing by myself late at night and had to sleep with the lights on, cant remember the last movie that made me do that since I've been older than 12.

[lonewolf579]

1. Watch this movie

This movie is very scary. It scared the crap out of me!

[shadowknows69]

2. I though it was good. Good acting and production values on no budget.

Like Blair Witch before it, it's almost what you don't see that is scarier than what you do. I thought the use of the static recording camera was especially creepy and tense. Mind mind started seeing things in the shadows before anything actually happened on film. I think.

[FormerDittoHead]

3. The sound seems to be coming from the attic! (spoilers)

That was the most scary trip for nothing I've ever had.

However, I have to admit that the Blair Witch Project had me going at the time.

I have to say that I ended up hating the husband, and for that, it was a good performance.

Fucking asshole.

Dude, you got such a great camera, too bad you practically need sunlight to get a decent picture.

Dude, for the fucking 1,000th time, she's not gonna do porn for you.

Asshole, you're not really thinking about doing that fucking Ouija board thing, right?

[havocmom]

4. err, wasn't Blair Witch Project a comedy?

We sure thought it was.

[FormerDittoHead]

7. err, most people didn't think so...

Blair Witch made $248,639,099 compared to Paranormal Activity doing about HALF that.

Blair Witch has a rating of 81 on Metacritic:
http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/blairwitchproject?q=blair%20witch

Which includes a 100 from Rodger Ebert...

Compare that to Paranormal's score:

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/paranormalactivity?q=paranormal

Ebert likes Paranormal too, but not as much.

If you laughed at Blair Witch, you're neglecting to say what a derivative, boring piece of tripe Paranormal Activity must be to you.

[havocmom]

8. Generally, I am interested in paranormal activity films

Blair Witch was just plain funny

[centristgrandpa]

11. a remake of cornyism, i heard repub nation loved it...n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. I remember a lot of people laughing when I saw it in the theater.

It was all inappropriate laughter. Laughing at things that weren't funny.

Nervous laughter. Because really they were scared, and trying to cover it up.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Sounds good! I'll have to c heck it out. nt

[ChoppinBroccoli]

6. It Freaked Me Out

I'm a guy who loves a good scary movie. The problem is, I've seen so many that they usually don't scare me anymore. This one did. It's one of those movies that, even though you KNOW it's not real (I guess some people, like Blair Witch, thought it might have actually been a documentary--I was never under that impression), it scares you anyway.

I watched it late at night, and when I went up to bed with all the lights out, I'll admit I was kinda looking around. The only movies that freak me out like that are the ones with Biblical/Demonic themes (because you never know). That's why, to this day, the only movies that have ever freaked me out in real life are "The Exorcist" (still can't watch that one), "Prince Of Darkness", and this one. I've only seen it once, so I wonder if its power to freak me out will be the same the second time around.

This may be a slight spoiler, but I never thought simply seeing a door close on its own would scare me. And I'm with some of the previous posters in that I wanted to slap that guy. Everything he was told NOT to do, he did. And he wouldn't give it up.

Here's my big question, though: If this stuff started happening to you, wouldn't your first reaction be to start sleeping with the door closed?

[shadowknows69]

9. So then something just opens the door instead of closing it.

Even scarier; and I've had that happen to me.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

10. Oohhh. Please Explain.

I love a good real-life ghost story. I've never had anything I consider "paranormal" ever happen to me, but I know plenty of people who have. One of my long-time friends claimed he lived in a haunted house (and pretty much everyone I've talked to, including my parents and HIS parents, confirm it). Also, the mother of my wife's college roommate is a famous "ghost hunter" (she's actually the person who Jennifer Love Hewitt's character in "The Ghost Whisperer" is based on).

[onager]

12. Famous ghost hunter, eh?

Does she need a million dollars?

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge/challenge-application.html

[TheWatcher]

15. We all could. Maybe we could buy that tired idiot Randi a life.

:rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

14. We saw it twice in the theater.

I prefer this kind of scare to what I call Torture Porn, the Saw films, etc. The unseen is more frightening than the seen.