27 October 2009

Paranormal Activity...

How in the hell are people finding this movie scary?

I saw it last night with my sister and we both spent the whole movie laughing. It was badly acted, badly filmed, and extremely predictable. They show what happens at the end in the previews. If you have seen the previews you have seen the end of the movie that everyone is talking about.

The basic premise of this movie... There is a demon spirit in the house and it is haunting the couple, Katie and Micah. I fell asleep for about 10 minutes at the beginning so I'm no help there, but they say they hear footsteps, water shutting on and off, lights going on and off, and doors creaking. As they continue filming themselves the events become more prevalent and more extreme as they are pissing the demon off more. We find out from a psychic they contact the demon is haunting Katie and wants her. Micah, like a dumbass, gets a Ouija board and attempts to contact the demon and tell it to leave. Katie flips out and from then on the paranormal events get worse. She is dragged out of bed in the middle of the night, has bruises and bite marks on her body, begins to sleepwalk and stand in the middle of the room for hours while Micah sleeps, the doors forcefully slam open and closed, they see footprints on the floor after placing powder down, etc.. The ending is like the 20th night of filming themselves sleep. You see Katie get out of bed and stand over Micah for hours as he sleeps, go downstairs, and then start screaming his name. He jolts awake, runs downstairs to aid her, about 45 seconds of nothing pass, and you see his body come flying through the door frame into the camera. You find Katie standing in the door frame with her shirt covered in blood. She walks over to Micah's body, looks at it, crawls toward the camera (like the chick in the Grudge did), smile and turn her head, and then she flashes demon teeth and jumps at the camera. Things go black as they say Micah's body was found like a week later and Katie's whereabouts were never discovered.

Scary? No.
Suspenseful? No. More like boring.

If I wanted to watch time lapsed sleep I would record myself for a month and edit it appropriately. I don't understand how people are finding it scary at all. It a dumb documentary-style movie with elements from the Exorcist and Poltergeist.
Do yourselves a favor and wait until it's played on TV.

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