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Paranormal Activity, pah !
richard cranium
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Maybe it plays better in a packed cinema full of 15 year olds but on DVD I found it more annoying than scary.
It took an hour to get to anywhere nearing spooky.
Surely the ( Blair Witch, Cloverfield ) hand held video dairy style film has had its day.
It took an hour to get to anywhere nearing spooky.
Surely the ( Blair Witch, Cloverfield ) hand held video dairy style film has had its day.
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spooked the hell out of me. someone else i recommended it to had to turn it off half way through for a 15 minute break she was so terrified. best horror film ive seen in ages IMHO
As you can tell i'm not a very good liar..:D
I love horror films but they don't scare me. PA, though, made me jump a few times. I liked that it was so basic. The closing scene was just brilliant.
he made them reshoot the ending though
Yep, agreed.
I'm being somewhat unfair to it.
It does needs to be seen in a cinema with LOUD, dynamic surroundsound plus the breathless anticipated anxiety of 600 other big fearties.
I would think it would be scarier watching it on DVD at home. Yeah you get the atmosphere in the cinema but I would get creeped out even more going up to bed after watching it!
try watching it with the lights off! i think that would totally freak me out. i think the type of film audience you watch it with makes a big difference - some people reported that some of the audience laughed and joked the whole way through and they found they didn't find it creepy at all, as opposed to smaller cinemas with quieter, smaller audiences.
Is the film true??
What happened to the Micah? He never came back:mad:
Lmao!! Micah gone for good, scary aye? hope you're not alone, i was bad enough with my oh, hope you get to sleep!
**SPOILER BELOW**
I'm an utter, utter wuss about horror movies but this one did not scare me at all. My husband is usually tough about this kind of stuff but he thought it was really scary. I actually laughed at quite a bit of it, especially when she was about to bite his nuts off.
We did watch it in a cinema, and the point you make about the cinema is totally true, especially because from where we were sitting we could hear from the speakers that there were 'audience screams' (similar to canned laughter on comedy shows) overlaid on the soundtrack, which of course made everyone in the cinema scream.
Leonalewisfan, I think you have seen the earlier version. There are two, the earlier iindie version (which is on a lot of pirate copies) has Katie leave the room and the inference is that she has killed Micah. I haven't seen the earlier version but I'm told after Micah disappears she comes upstairs and is catatonic for a while and is then shot by some policemen.
After the independent film was bought by a major studio they tarted it up and gave it a new ending. In the new version Katie follows Micah out of the room but a few seconds later Micah's body is thrown across the room towards the camera. A possessed Katie follows him in and the camera cuts out just as she is about to start eating his corpse.
Apparently there is another version which is quite rare where Katie kills Micah and then slits her throat.
I'm guessing you saw the first one, but Micah is dead and he was killed by Katie while she was possessed by the demon in all the versions.
And I hope you sleep too.
thanks! yeah i watched the ending where the ending police shoot her. If only they left before she was possesed!
i saw it in the cinema and trust me, it wasn't scary!
in fact, we were laughing at it! it was full (large cineworld cinema) in one of the largest cinema's; and everyone was laughing at it because it wasn't scary!
i think the trailer gave away too much
When i saw it in the cinema everyone was laughing at it, including my friend who wondered why i'd made such a fuss about it. That said, i've got another friend who saw it with his flatmates on release night and apparently they ALL struggled to get to sleep after watching it! So it definitely depends on how likeminded the audience are as to whether people enjoy it or not. It's just a shame that some people in the audience feel the need to ridicule a film throughout it, as it ruins the experience for others...
It's a much better experience at home on DVD though. You actually begin to feel paranoid about your own home, and the slightest noise freaks you out.