Oct 27 2009
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Big deal.
PLOT
Micah and Katie are a young couple in love, though we don’t really see that side of things given that they spend the whole movie barely touching each other. Weird things begin happening, which causes Micah to setup a video camera in their home where they see things moving, lights coming on and hear voices on tape. Katie starts acting weird and doing odd things, but she has no memory of them in the morning. As the ghostly activity starts ramping up, the duo realize that it’s somehow tied to Katie and that there may not be an escape.
TRIVIA
There are two different endings to the movie: one shown during a past screening and one sent out to distributors. Both are substantially different from the ending shown in theaters.
THOUGHTS
When I heard that people walked out of Paranormal Activity, I rolled my eyes. When I saw the movie and kept hearing the same thing over and over (and over again), I started to get a little pissed off. I’d really like to know where the people are who thought it was so scary because they obviously weren’t in my theater. When we left the screening full of people, all we heard were the people grumbling about either feeling ripped off, or just feeling disappointed. I take that back, there were a group of teenagers who said it was the scariest thing they ever saw. I spent the whole movie waiting for something to happen. Given the trailers of Paranormal Activity, I thought something should happen, but I just kept waiting. Oh, is something about to happen? Nope, that’s just the door shutting. Oh, what about now? No, just a picture in the attic. Paranormal Activity was disappointing, in the same way that the Blair Witch Project was disappointing: too much hype and no payoff.
