Paranormial Activity

Now for a more recent film. Was hearing alot about Paranormal Activity trough word of mouth, some saying it was good, others saying it was bad, you know, the usual crap. One description i heard from someone had me a bit spatial at first was 'Big Brother on the big screen'. If you don't know me, i despise Big Brother alot. But i thought i'd check it out as really, when it comes to movies you shouldn't trust the opinions of others, you should make up your own mind.

So yea, enough life lessons and on to the review. Paranormal Activity was made in 2007 by director Oren Peli. It spent 2 years on the film festival circuit before it got a nationwide cinema release this year. The story centres around a young couple called Katie and Micah, who have just moved in together. After a couple of strange occurrences, Micah decides to document everything on video.

They consult a Psychic who sits and talks with them. Here is where we learn about Katies past, and the Psychic tells them its a demon who follows Katie, and that they should consult a deamonoligist as the psychic can only deal with ghosts. All he knows is that demons feed of negative energy. Micah tells Katie not to call the demonoligest.

Micah is without a doubt the stupidest character i have ever seen in any horror movie. I mean, to be fair, i know he wants to protect his girlfriend and getting an outsider to fix their problems makes him uncomfortable, okay fair enough, almost every man is like that. But the fact that he trys to communicate with the demon trough an Ouija board, ignoring his girlfriends pleas to turn off the camera and making her angry, hmm? Remember the whole demon feeds of negative energy thing? And yes, because of Micah's arrogance things only get worse.

Don't want to give too much away so i'll conclude with this. The scenes while there sleeping and the haunting occur are very terrifying, mostly you have to deal with boring dialogue scenes and silly soap opera drama, but the shocks do get you when you least expect it and its very suspense filled. so all in all, not a bad horror movie at all.

7/10