Comments on: Paranormal Activity Review (10-11-09)

By: mckaysproductions

mckaysproductions — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:31:10 +0000

Awww you hated diary of the dead? i loved it.
Hated land of the dead and i didn't like the make up in Dawn of the Dead.
However i love some of the special features in Dawn of the dead.

By: Robstermd

Robstermd — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:29:08 +0000

Gotta say I loved The Blair Witch project, may favourite horror movie of all time, though it loses most of the effect after the first viewing. Though I've showed it to various friends and girlfriends and they just get bored. Maybe I'll have to check out Paranormal Activity .

My idea on the whole fear verses gore thing is that, over time, people have got use to having these things shoved straight down their throat and are not willing to think about what is going on. What I love about the Blair Witch is that you need to use your head and it's not the movie that scares you, but your own mind

By: DaBowse

DaBowse — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:15:38 +0000

i definitely agree that the people in the theater drive the movie home; my friend named cupid made this blood curdling scream at the first night of paranormal activity and that directly put me into the highest level of fear factor for the rest of the film. i can safely say that this was muuuuuch more scarier than Halloween Horror Nights…and that's a real life experience!!

By: devilfish

devilfish — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:00:58 +0000

I agree with pretty much everything you said (especially about horror movies today and the difference between revulsion and fear) except for one thing: being genuinely scared is not fun. At all.

It's fine if you can walk out of the theater, shake it off and go home. I can't do that. By the time I've cared enough about the plot and characters to become really, truly terrified, it does not go away. I've got an unusually overactive imagination and I just can't seem to shake this dread after I've watched a horror movie.

This all reminds me of this one time my whole family was out of town and I was alone at my parent's place. Big place. Mansion in the woods, old building, not too many other houses around. So, naturally, I rented a movie, got a pile of snacks (thank god I did) and settled down to watch a horror movie, The Ring. I know, not a very scary movie, but you'd be surprised how pants-shittingly terrified you can get when you're alone in a huge creaking mansion at night in the woodsy asscrack of rural Belgium. Once the movie was over I was so freaked out I didn't have the balls to get off the couch. I basically camped out on the couch with a blankie over my head surviving on snacks and coke for the better part of two days. I'm not even kidding, that's how terrified I was.

So, yeah, I'm a major pussy. I've been terrified a lot and it was never fun. And the weird thing is, I absolutely love old-school horror movies, but I can't watch them on my own, I haven't got a boyfriend anymore (and he didn't like movies anyway) and my friends don't like horror. I'd love to see Ringu and Kairo and Rosemary's Baby and the Exorcist and a slew of other movies, but it's sooo not worth camping on the couch for.

By: Henry Sloan

Henry Sloan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:37:47 +0000

lets youtube this shit!

By: smapattack

smapattack — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:32:44 +0000

I think you saw a different movie.

By: conor0801

conor0801 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:33:38 +0000

Uh, boyfriend and girlfriend in the movie? Wasn't it just the mom, sister and brother? I'm confused now.

Someone explain :/

Also, I liked this movie (for the most part) too.

By: tfguy49

tfguy49 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:30 +0000

i am usually scared of every horror movies, like mouths of no sleep scared but when i saw this i was bored after 30 minute i started to find it funny. and the end (i saw one of the alternate endings only) was retarded she kills the guy and then herself? (sorry about the spoiler)

By: tfguy49

tfguy49 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:14:30 +0000

By: smapattack

smapattack — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:39:41 +0000

Just saw it tonight so sorry this comment is a few months late.
My movie crowd burst out laughing at

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the part where the demon dragged her out of bed.

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I also found it hilarious. I, honestly, think that some people are just not scared by this kind of style. I know when I wasn't laughing I was bored shitless. I was not drawn in because the boyfriend and the girlfriend were unbelievably stupid, and the scares were all jump scares (never jumped either, mainly because it was all predictable BS).
And why would the guy keep on provoking the demon? I don't get why he keeps provoking it after the first few times. It's obviously not helping. Not that I was cheering for the demon, but I think the couple was fully aware after the first few days the camera, ouija board etc... was DEFINITELY not helping. They were asking for it. Basically, the movie was like a boy poking a beehive, a girl telling him not to poke the beehive or else she'd leave, even though she never left, and of course, they both get stung in the end...LEAVE AND STOP PROVOKING IT MORONS!

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I felt no sympathy for them when the demon kicked Micah's ass into the camera and possessed Katy's, dumb, dependent ass in the end.

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I love your videos Spoony, but you shouldn't get on your high horse and criticize people for liking movies like Transformers (yes, even though it's a pretty mindless flick) because there are people who are into that. You liked this movie and some people will enjoy it and will genuinely be scared by it, and some people will just not like it and won't connect to the types of scares this movie has to offer. Not because they don't get it, but because it's just not to their tastes.