Saturday, October 24, 2009

Paranormal Activity?


A decent movie made from a budget of $15,000, and I commend the guerrilla advertising used to make this flick so appealing to so many audiences. They came up on this movie making an ungodly amount more than the production cost. But for the $10 I spent to watch this media proclaimed "scariest movie of all time", I feel that I was ripped off. Here are my reasons without trying to spoil it.

Reason #1- This film is littered with bad choices! When it comes to common sense, I say "Epic Fail".

Reason #2- This movie makes it look like there is such a profession as a demonologist and when do psychics recommend them?

Reason #3- The guy in the movie is just plain stupid, which some would say falls into Reason #1, but if you choose to watch this movie, you'll see why I chose to give him his own category. Ignorance kills.

Reason #4- I spent $10 to watch this.

Overall, it wasn't a bad sit through. Probably worth downloading, but not to pay $10 for. Thanks to the media hype and the stupid reactions of people who probably knew they were being recorded, this movie ran away with a heck of a lot more than it took to make it. Lucky them. Totally not worth the title of "scariest movie of all time". Far from it, but on a plus, it was a pretty decent terror movie. Terror, as in not bathing in blood and gore. The subtle effects of fear kick in on this one, rather than the horror of limbs being ripped to shreds as in the Saw series, which I think should have quit at the first movie.

See it if you want, it's not that bad. Heck, it's even funny at times. Wait, is that a good thing?

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