Paranormal Activity

[caretaker14]

Just saw the first ending. Really long and drawn out. Didn't really care for either ending, really.

 

[Heretic]

There were three endings.

 

[Kane52630]

Micah and Katie on AOTS

http://g4tv.com/videos/42375/Paranormal-Activitys-Katie-Featherson--Micah-Sloat/

 

[CashforStash]

Micah and Katie on AOTS

http://g4tv.com/videos/42375/Paranormal-Activitys-Katie-Featherson--Micah-Sloat/

Nice

 

[Sentinel X]

Finally saw this movie. Can you say OVERHYPED?! One of the scariest movies of all time my ass. This doesn't hold a candle to films like The Excorcist, Psycho, Halloween,etc.

I don't know how anyone can watch this movie and cry from fear. I really don't get it. Its not a terrible film but its definitely not as good as people say. And its not because I had high expectations...heck, Rec had similar word of mouth and I thought that was a very well made horror film (I didn't lose any sleep but I was covering my ears and covering my eyes through out the whole film), with this film I was just unimpressed. Its a nice endeavor for a first time director with an 11,000 dollar budget but in all honesty its nothing special.

The only 2 scene I would say are creepy are

Spoiler

The ouija board scene and the scene where she is dragged out of her bed by the demon

...but its nothing to fuss about, really

 

[Bob ROARman!]

And even those two scenes were slow developing. It wasn't sudden or anything, you weren't really shocked or surprised.

 

[xmangambit]

Also this film lied to me from the trailers, i the trailer you see one shot where she flies out and hits the camera?? Where was that in the film?

 

[Kane52630]

Also this film lied to me from the trailers, i the trailer you see one shot where she flies out and hits the camera?? Where was that in the film?

im guessing you saw the bootlegged version

 

[xmangambit]

Dunno was watching it in some Pub, was clear copy though thought it was straight to DVD? That what the pub man was saying

 

[squeekness]

Finally saw this movie. Can you say OVERHYPED?! One of the scariest movies of all time my ass. This doesn't hold a candle to films like The Excorcist, Psycho, Halloween,etc.

I don't know how anyone can watch this movie and cry from fear. I really don't get it. Its not a terrible film but its definitely not as good as people say. And its not because I had high expectations...heck, Rec had similar word of mouth and I thought that was a very well made horror film (I didn't lose any sleep but I was covering my ears and covering my eyes through out the whole film), with this film I was just unimpressed. Its a nice endeavor for a first time director with an 11,000 dollar budget but in all honesty its nothing special.

The only 2 scene I would say are creepy are

Spoiler

The ouija board scene and the scene where she is dragged out of her bed by the demon

...but its nothing to fuss about, really

Oh I thought the

Spoiler

footprints appearing out of nowhere and the parts where she was just standing over the guy while he slept

were pretty creepy too.

 

[Kane52630]

Dunno was watching it in some Pub, was clear copy though thought it was straight to DVD? That what the pub man was saying

yea its the bootlegged version. they changed the ending when they showed it in theaters

 

[Alien Anal]

watched it on saturday night

i loved it, was a great fun movie that was scary


It is unfortunate that this movie gets a lot of people saying that it was over hyped, because i think the film needs to be "seen" from the eyes of someone having watched it for the first time with out all the stupid advertising.

I honestly do not think that when they were making this movie with their 11,000$ budget or what ever it was that they said "lets then sell this movie as being the scariest of ALLLL time"

 

[Bob ROARman!]

But that doesn't change the fact that it was still billed that way.

 

[Alien Anal]

Forget what the advertising said

have we not yet learned that advertising is generally 99% ********

 

[Heretic]

I do think that marketing campaigns have crossed a bit of a line though.

The Fourth Kind is the biggest offender, by having the lead actress break the fourth wall in advertising claiming that her entirely fictional movie actually happened...

I think with Paranormal Activity, we have the herd mentality and our friends to blame. We all heard it was this underground sensation that was the "scerrrrriest thing evah girlfriend" and we watched as people "like us" were terrified of blankets and doors moving. This was fed by numb-skulls on Facebook and Twitter (supposedly, the media kept talking about social networking sites were fueling the interest, yet I never saw much of anything) that hyped it up.

So, most of us followed the pack, ready to be scared by the greatest horror film since Showgirls, and our minds fooled us into believing the pack...probably due more to a subconscious need to belong than any real scares in the film. We left the film agreeing with all the cool kids on the social networking sites, agreeing with the "grassroots" saying it was super scary.

The movie goes out of it's way to NOT be scary, so I think a study on herd mentality could put this promotion campaign to use...

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I said that before about the marketing complain awhile back before.

 

[squeekness]

I saw no ads before going to see this, maybe that's why I liked it so much.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I saw no ads before going to see this, maybe that's why I liked it so much.

So you never seen the commercial with the quote saying its the scariest movie ever and showing crowds of people ****ting their pants, with the fake woman screaming noise?

 

[squeekness]

Nope. I don't watch that much TV, really. I catch my shows online and they mostly just have cleaning ads.

 

[danoyse]

It was actually brilliant marketing, considering how profitable it is. If you fell for it, it's your own fault, not anyone else's.

I knew it wasn't going to be the scariest movie ever, but I thought it sounded like an interesting concept, stayed away from the trailers and TV spots so not to spoil anything for myself and saw it as early as I could.

Didn't think it was the scariest movie ever, but I liked it, thought it definitely had some effective scares and was extremely well done considering it was a no-budget film done in the director's house.

There are people who've been geniunely freaked out by it - going from audience reactions from people who've posted about them on here and in other places. Hell, one woman practically ran from the theater when I saw it.

It was just clever marketing that worked on some, and not on others.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Wasn't scared at all until the last 6 mins or so, and even then it was like 6/10 on the scary meter.


Bring on the Fourth Kind

 

[Dark Helmet]

What I want to know is how many ****ing steps did those two have. Did they add on more stepping sounds for dramatic effect then there really is ?

 

[AlteredEgo]

Nope. I don't watch that much TV, really. I catch my shows online and they mostly just have cleaning ads.

whatever, sheep.

 

[Dark Victory]

I said that before about the marketing complain awhile back before.

You have to be kidding me. Again, addressing this to you for the second time, if it wasn't for the viral marketing campaign and the hype it created, there's no way in hell it would've been as successful as it is now.

 

[Arbiter]

the only thing that stuck with me from this movie is im still creeped out by my stairs at night