Paranormal Activity

[QuikSsurfer]

Just got back from seeing this... woah. The last 30 minutes were ridiculously unnerving.
Horror is my bag ,but I am still spooked after seeing this.

http://www.paranormalactivity-movie.com/trailer.html

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHell

BLoody Mary...really...that's what they came up with...

...I never saw part 2. Part 1 was a good scare, pretty un-nerving at times. I heard part 2 was even worse on your brain...anybody confirm that?

To me, the minute you start having sequels to these types of movies, it sorta takes away from the supposed "realism" of them. That's why I never bothered with part 2.

The 2nd one is actually pretty good. Its set about a month before the 1st movie. There is a nice continuing storyline with a few of the characters....this new trailer implies that they will be showing an incident that occured during the childhood of some of the main characters...it was briefly mentioned in the earlier movies.

[rocknrolla]

When I was a kid. We used to sat redrum. Not bloody mary.

[InChiefsHeaven]

Originally Posted by rocknrolla

When I was a kid. We used to sat redrum. Not bloody mary.

Oh, when I was a kid, it was Bloody Mary. And you did it in the dark as well. It's funny, I haven't thought of Bloody Mary in a long time.

[listopencil]

Same Bloody Mary that we did as a kid?

Late at night you'd go into the bathroom and stare at the mirror. While staring at the mirror, you reach over and turn off the light so your face is the last thing you see. Has to be completely dark. Then you chant "Bloody Mary" thirteen times and turn on the light. Supposedly you will see her face in the mirror. Either replacing yours or right over your shoulder looking at you. Of course the power of suggestion makes you see something that will scare the living shit out of you as a kid, lol. Good times.

[ReynardMuldrake]

Just noticed this thread. People seriously thought the ending was scary? I thought it was one of the lamer endings I've seen, and it completely killed the tension. At the part where she gets dragged out of bed I busted out laughing, it was so ridiculous looking. They ran out of ideas at that point and I pretty much guessed everything else before it happened.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by ReynardMuldrake

Just noticed this thread. People seriously thought the ending was scary? I thought it was one of the lamer endings I've seen, and it completely killed the tension. At the part where she gets dragged out of bed I busted out laughing, it was so ridiculous looking. They ran out of ideas at that point and I pretty much guessed everything else before it happened.

Cool

[Lzen]

I thought it was kinda scary. Just watched part 2 yesterday. About the same. Worth a rental.

[ThaVirus]

The Paranormals are the type of movie I like to see in theaters, being that I don't have a surround sound system. The tension is much more effective with the bass up loud..

[Deberg_1990]

I really like these movies. I just watched both of them about 5 or 6 months ago back to back. I think i liked the 2nd one a little better. I love that they use old fashioned scares with no gore. They also seem to be developing some decent continuity in the series.

[ThaVirus]

Just saw this tonight. If you liked the other two, I'd highly recommend this one..

Spoiler!

This one had a lot of the same scares. Footsteps and scuffling throughout the house, doors slamming and loud bangs and things of that nature. I thought they did a good job of bringing in some fresh ways to keep the tension though. Particularly with the fan/camera that slowly panned across the downstairs room. You just knew some shit was going to pop off with that and it did! Holy shit, the ghost blanket thingy SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! And the kitchen shit all falling. Plus, HOLY BALLS, the bloody mary scene. That shit was tense as hell too. Then you got to the grandma's house, which I saw coming a million miles away, but who cares. That whole scene wasn't quite as intense as the basement scene in the second movie, but close enough for me. It wasn't so much jumpy as the second movie, but much scarier in the sense that they were having the seance and the grandma kept appearing and disappearing and what not.

The people in the movie were idiots, as usual. The boyfriend was cool, very likable, and the mother was just an annoying idiot, although she was pretty damn sexy. I just couldn't believe that she kept ignoring the shit that was going down. The whole movie the boyfriend was like "Dude, there's something going on here and I've got it on film. Come watch!" and she's all like, "NO. I'm a dumb whore and I'm going to ignore all of this obviously demonic shit that's going on with my daughter!"...

Whatever, if people in scary movies were as smart as me there wouldn't be any scary movies so whatever. Pretty much my only problem with this movie was that it ended a bit abruptly. The demon broke the bf's back and they walked upstairs and it went black.. I was like "Uhhhhhh....". Maybe that's a good thing though. A good movie should leave you wanting more, I suppose.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Just saw this tonight. If you liked the other two, I'd highly recommend this one..

Spoiler!

This one had a lot of the same scares. Footsteps and scuffling throughout the house, doors slamming and loud bangs and things of that nature. I thought they did a good job of bringing in some fresh ways to keep the tension though. Particularly with the fan/camera that slowly panned across the downstairs room. You just knew some shit was going to pop off with that and it did! Holy shit, the ghost blanket thingy SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! And the kitchen shit all falling. Plus, HOLY BALLS, the bloody mary scene. That shit was tense as hell too. Then you got to the grandma's house, which I saw coming a million miles away, but who cares. That whole scene wasn't quite as intense as the basement scene in the second movie, but close enough for me. It wasn't so much jumpy as the second movie, but much scarier in the sense that they were having the seance and the grandma kept appearing and disappearing and what not.

The people in the movie were idiots, as usual. The boyfriend was cool, very likable, and the mother was just an annoying idiot, although she was pretty damn sexy. I just couldn't believe that she kept ignoring the shit that was going down. The whole movie the boyfriend was like "Dude, there's something going on here and I've got it on film. Come watch!" and she's all like, "NO. I'm a dumb whore and I'm going to ignore all of this obviously demonic shit that's going on with my daughter!"...

Whatever, if people in scary movies were as smart as me there wouldn't be any scary movies so whatever. Pretty much my only problem with this movie was that it ended a bit abruptly. The demon broke the bf's back and they walked upstairs and it went black.. I was like "Uhhhhhh....". Maybe that's a good thing though. A good movie should leave you wanting more, I suppose.

I agree with everything here. My lady friend and I saw this last night.

[Chiefs Pantalones]

I took my wife to see this last night. Not bad. A lot of the same stuff. Still a good scare I guess. I freaked out my wife in the middle of the night when I got up to go to the bathroom she asks what are you doing, I said I'm gonna get Toby something to eat he's hungry lol. Got smacked.

[Rausch]

Did I hit a time warp?

Where is this playing like 3 years later?...

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Did I hit a time warp?

Where is this playing like 3 years later?...

They have a 3rd one out this year. Somehow it got greenlit....

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by lcarus

They have a 3rd one out this year. Somehow it got greenlit....

Are you serious? Probably because it costs them less than $100,000 to film it and they make over a $100 million.. Or maybe because they're the freshest thing in the horror genre since the first two Saws. Idk.