Paranormal Activity: Review By Velvet

Paranormal Actiity. A very interesting film, with ametuer actors and a new, idealistic director.

The basis of the film is expressed through night footage of a video camera into the lives of Katie and Micah, an "engaged to be engaged" couple living in a suburban home in sunny San Diego around the fall of 2006. Throughout the viewing of the recorded footage placed from 12 to 4 during the night, many paranormal activities occur, including thuds, foot steps and other freaky ethereal phenomena.

The 'movie' itself garnered much criticism before I viewed it, recieving "scary" to "very creepy, very good", to "boring" and "stupid, didn't even scare me". So I had to see it for myself, not to listen to what others have to say about it.

The show is over. I walked out of the cinema with my legs shaking like I just got off of a giant rollercoaster. That one thing that could possibly make me shake in fear and mortality, a movie that produced so much of it that it actually spooked me out. I loved it.

Paranormal Activity is perhaps one of the scariest and most terrifying films to hit the big screens, as this is only my opinion above others. The film had perfect sequences of tormenting a human being, such as Katie, and it was made so well that it felt so realisitc and it could actually happen to you. It's no ordinary ghost story or haunting, its a demonic plague thats procured into ones home while you sleep. That is mortifying.

The film also had a good amount of actors for new-comers Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat and 'new' director Oren Peli. Peli's film was fantastic. He definitly got the job done right, even within his one week time frame of filming. I also liked how he used such a subruban home style as a setting to make the film in. It made it into more of a reailty type picture and that did great for the film. This is how you really scare someone, breaing down to its simpliest form, and easiest steps to grab your attention. With about 8 or 9 nights of haunting and a total of three weeks of footage, the scare is in the air for this theater hit.

From thuds to creaks to footsteps and screams, and $15,000 was the cost to make the film in its entirety, so far taking in over $60 mil in the box office.. thats outstanding. My recommendation to movie lovers or thrill seekers is to definitly go see the film, whether you like or dislike getting scared over a movie. Its worth your $10 to get a malevolent spook ecspecially around Halloween.