Paranormal Activity

[CELTICPRED]

Then get pepper sprayed.

 

[danoyse]

If you ever want to scare the **** out of someone after a horror movie, this is the one to do it in. Just wait outside of the theatre and jump and scream at someone as they're leaving. Heart attack city.

Someone on another board I read said her son was so completely freaked by the movie he slept with the lights on. So she left 'ghost writing' on his bathroom mirror and has been jumping at him from around corners all week.

 

[Kane52630]

nice
but hey that would freaked me out to right after i saw the movie

 

[omid17]

Apparently he returned the DVD to the Dreamworks office in a garbage bag because he didn't want to touch it.

He did suggest the new ending, and I think it's the best of the 3. We'd already seen Katie [blackout]standing around possessed[/blackout] several times in the film so that ending doesn't add much to what we'd seen, and the whole idea of [blackout]the cops shooting her[/blackout] just seems lame to me.

agreed

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I'm sorry, but this movie was hardly scary and people who had to put on their lights on at night are giant wusses. (would have used something else more un hype friendly)

Given there are a few creepy moments, but not like OMG I'm never gonna sleep again.

 

[CELTICPRED]

The ghosthunters clip from South Park keeps playing back in my mind.

WHAT WAS THAT?

 

[Heretic]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me exactly how the theatrical ending fits with the entire movie that precedes it. For those of you who like that ending...it seems to break the fourth wall in a sense...screaming at the viewer "THIS IS A MOVIE" where the rest of the film tried hard to convince us that it was reality. How does that NOT equal a horrible scene that ends the movie incorrectly?

 

[Kane52630]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me exactly how the theatrical ending fits with the entire movie that precedes it. For those of you who like that ending...it seems to break the fourth wall in a sense...screaming at the viewer "THIS IS A MOVIE" where the rest of the film tried hard to convince us that it was reality. How does that NOT equal a horrible scene that ends the movie incorrectly?

my crowd was screaming with horror when she broke the 4th wall before the ending and the ending, you should of saw them lol

 

[omid17]

my crowd was screaming with horror when she broke the 4th wall before the ending and the ending, you should of saw them lol

seems like you enjoyed your crowd more than the movie

 

[Heretic]

So, it's okay that they completely and utterly destroyed what the entire film was trying to accomplish in 2 seconds, just because 14 year old girls jumped in their seats?

 

[danoyse]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me exactly how the theatrical ending fits with the entire movie that precedes it. For those of you who like that ending...it seems to break the fourth wall in a sense...screaming at the viewer "THIS IS A MOVIE" where the rest of the film tried hard to convince us that it was reality. How does that NOT equal a horrible scene that ends the movie incorrectly?

Well, it's obvious throughout the movie that the demon is possessing Katie, and has done it in small doses several times. [BLACKOUT]Finally it completely does[/BLACKOUT], which was no big surprise. Everything that was happening was leading to it.

It fit, having the camera was clearly provoking it and making it stronger, it clearly hated Micah (and I was kinda on the demon's side with that one), it clearly knew the camera was there and reacted to it at the end.

I've seen the [BLACKOUT]cops shoot Katie ending[/BLACKOUT], and I thought it was terrible. It dragged on way too long with stuff we'd seen several times already throughout the movie. I definitely prefer the current ending.

 

[danoyse]

So, it's okay that they completely and utterly destroyed what the entire film was trying to accomplish in 2 seconds, just because 14 year old girls jumped in their seats?

There were plenty of adults at my show doing the same thing.

 

[omid17]

So, it's okay that they completely and utterly destroyed what the entire film was trying to accomplish in 2 seconds, just because 14 year old girls jumped in their seats?

the ending was perfect man, i don't know why ur still trippin over it

 

[omid17]

Well, it's obvious throughout the movie that the demon is possessing Katie, and has done it in small doses several times. [blackout]Finally it completely does[/blackout], which was no big surprise. Everything that was happening was leading to it.

It fit, having the camera was clearly provoking it and making it stronger, it clearly hated Micah (and I was kinda on the demon's side with that one), it clearly knew the camera was there and reacted to it at the end.

I've seen the [blackout]cops shoot Katie ending[/blackout], and I thought it was terrible. It dragged on way too long with stuff we'd seen several times already throughout the movie. I definitely prefer the current ending.

 

[danoyse]

It really does make perfect sense. For the entire last half the movie, all I could think was TURN THE CAMERA OFF!!!

Obviously the camera's presence was making it stronger (since it was now showing during the day as well as at night). And obviously, it was very mad.

And clearly, it didn't like being filmed. Katie/it could have finished whatever it was doing to Micah when he ran downstairs. [BLACKOUT]But she/it took him back upstairs, and flung him AT THE CAMERA. [/BLACKOUT]

[BLACKOUT]I don't think it was finished with Micah, but she/it gave the camera that last **** you smirk, then attacked that first so we couldn't see it anymore.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[omid17]

It really does make perfect sense. For the entire last half the movie, all I could think was TURN THE CAMERA OFF!!!

Obviously the camera's presence was making it stronger (since it was now showing during the day as well as at night). And obviously, it was very mad.

And clearly, it didn't like being filmed. Katie/it could have finished whatever it was doing to Micah when he ran downstairs. [blackout]But she/it took him back upstairs, and flung him AT THE CAMERA. [/blackout]

[blackout]I don't think it was finished with Micah, but she/it gave the camera that last **** you smirk, then attacked that first so we couldn't see it anymore.[/blackout]

well said

 

[Heretic]

Why on earth would the demon react that way to a camera???

In the movie, they clearly established the following

[BLACKOUT]When the demon wanted to damage something, it clawed at it, or hurled it. That was it's MO. Yes, it bit the girl...but in the end the demon (possessing the girl) was sniffing at the guy. That implies very heavily that it likes to bite living things...so given the history it would have swatted or threw the camera, rather than attempt to bite it...or bite the viewer. Even if you are willing to accept the ridiculous concept that a demon would be angry at a video camera, that really did nothing to it...then it certainly wouldnt eat it. That's a leap I'm not willing to take...especially when "monster attacks the viewers in the theater" is about as cliche as it gets.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[danoyse]

Why on earth would the demon react that way to a camera???

In the movie, they clearly established the following

[BLACKOUT]When the demon wanted to damage something, it clawed at it, or hurled it. That was it's MO. Yes, it bit the girl...but in the end the demon (possessing the girl) was sniffing at the guy. That implies very heavily that it likes to bite living things...so given the history it would have swatted or threw the camera, rather than attempt to bite it...or bite the viewer. Even if you are willing to accept the ridiculous concept that a demon would be angry at a video camera, that really did nothing to it...then it certainly wouldnt eat it. That's a leap I'm not willing to take...especially when "monster attacks the viewers in the theater" is about as cliche as it gets.[/BLACKOUT]

But what we saw of it was very little - we know it could do a variety bad things, but what it was fully capable of we really don't know.

[BLACKOUT]It destroyed the camera, but we don't know how, all we saw was it lunging for it. It was angry at at the camera, it just didn't like being filmed, otherwise it would have let us see what it did to Micah.

And it was not attacking the viewers in the theater, that's just silly. The only real nod to the audience was that last smirk before it killed the video.

Now it's got Katie, and no one knows where she is. Another reason it probably killed the video. It's wanted her for years, and now it has her. [/BLACKOUT]

 

[Bob ROARman!]

I didnt think it was the scariest movie ever, but it was very effective in making me uncomfortable. I think if I were ever in a haunted house, it would be something like what we saw. I wasnt too bored by it either. And I like the programs on TV about psychics and stuff like that so I guess that explains my higher rating for the movie. Oh well, its just a movie. You didnt like it and I did. Life goes on.

I don't entirely disagree. It's just that stuff on TV, at the very least SOME of that may have actually happened. Shows like Ghost Hunters, those are at least interesting to some degree and a little freaky sometimes. I watch some of them myself. But it's a genuine kind of creepy because you know that it might not be BS, whereas in the movie you KNOW it is.

So that whole realism angle they were going for is already out the window going into it. And that takes a lot of the uncomfortable factor out of it. Because you know it's not real, that door was rigged to close, those sounds are amplified to freak you out, that blood isn't real, the cliched "Micah" is a painfully amateur actor.

At least with the Blair Witch Project, there wasn't anything like it before, so we didn't really know any better. But that's like a one time deal, they got away with it, everything else after it won't unless it's absolutely positively the real deal, which will probably never happen.

 

[Heretic]

But what we saw of it was very little - we know it could do a variety bad things, but what it was fully capable of we really don't know.

[BLACKOUT]It destroyed the camera, but we don't know how, all we saw was it lunging for it. It was angry at at the camera, it just didn't like being filmed, otherwise it would have let us see what it did to Micah.

And it was not attacking the viewers in the theater, that's just silly. The only real nod to the audience was that last smirk before it killed the video.

Now it's got Katie, and no one knows where she is. Another reason it probably killed the video. It's wanted her for years, and now it has her. [/BLACKOUT]

[BLACKOUT]It attacked the camera mouth-first. It was eating the camera. The ONLY reason to eat a camera's lens is to scare whoever is watching the video that is being recorded.

Also, the camera did NOT make the entity stronger. that is absurd. What made the entity stronger was Micah threatening it, communicating with it, and using a Ouija board. That is not a guess...that was STATED in the film. The entity did not mind being filmed at all, since it did not alter it's behavior at all because of it. The entity clearly wanted to scare whoever was watching the film...and that has been done HUNDREDS of times in bad horror and action films. It is cliche every time it happens...and it's even worse in this film because it destroys the concept that this is a "real" video. Was it stupid in Ghost Rider when the bad guy snarled and attacked the camera for no reason?? Of course it was...but at least Ghost Rider wasn't pretending to be real.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

If you ever want to scare the **** out of someone after a horror movie, this is the one to do it in. Just wait outside of the theatre and jump and scream at someone as they're leaving. Heart attack city.

lol yeah, but....now that i think about it.....what IF someone gets a heart attack.

its all your fault.

 

[Hobgoblin]

There were plenty of adults at my show doing the same thing.

Same here. It was basically a teenage crowd and they really got into it.

 

[danoyse]

Heretic, I've watched ending a few times - [BLACKOUT]it lunged at the camera, we don't know if it ate the camera. It happened in a fraction of second. For all we know, it broke the camera, it smashed the lens. We have no evidence that it ate the camera.[/BLACKOUT]

The only thing the demon was interested in was Katie. It could care less about the audience. In fact, I don't even know where you're getting that from. If it wanted to scare to terrorize the audience, it would have left the camera alone so we could see [BLACKOUT]what it did to Micah [/BLACKOUT]- after all wasn't it their families who had the footage first? They get the 'thank you' for use of the footage at the start of the film.

Micah did a ton of things wrong - the biggest was the camera. The fact that he kept using it added to the tension between him and Katie, and the negative energy it created was what unleashed it in the end.

[blackout]It wanted Katie, and it got what it wanted, destroyed the camera, and left.[/blackout] It didn't give a crap about the audience.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I think this is what happens when a small indie film gets released and backed by a major studio or producer.

Its built up upon the hype, cause its in so limited release, and then once its in full release and people see it they are sadly disappointed or talk about how they thought the production value was horrible or how the writing/directing/acting was. When it was from a first time writer/directer and little know actors with a limited to no budget at all.

 

[danoyse]

The same thing happened with Blair Witch Project. I saw that when it was playing in 1 theater in New York, it was completely sold out for days, we had to go to an 11am show because it was the only show available and it still had a line around the block.

That show was so scary that I actually saw a woman leap completely out her seat at the end.

Then it was finally released nationwide, I saw it again at a multiplex near me, it didn't seem nearly as scary and most of the audience appeared to hate it.