Hi,
Caught Paranormal Activity on Monday night, saw an early showing to maximise the crowd, these films always play better with a fuller cinema, rather than the 6 to 10 people usually in the late showings. And the crowd effect did help!
Now I didn't really like the Blair witch, didn't find it scary in any way, Rec and Cloverfield I did like but with these hand-held films I do tend to feel motion sickness, but I wanted to see what the hype was about, so I fought the nausea and got through it!
And I'm glad I did, it was a well crafted film, for such a low budget it really did pull it off. The acting wasn't bad, and the script was realistic. The tension was built up slowly through out the film, with some very nice nervous moments for the cast and for the audience. I admit my hairs on the back of my neck did stand up once, so it did get to me a little.
Now if I hadn't seen the trailer, I may have jumped a couple of times as well, which I never really do, but I'd seen all the best moments and that was a shame, otherwise this may have been one of the best horror movies I'd seen for a while.
Overall, well produced little frightener with some nice moments. (7/10)
Paranormal Activity. Most certainly in the same vein as Blair witch but I think this film had more to offer certainly in the scares department. This helped by the fact the audience bought a ticket for the whole ride and entered into the "spirit" (it almost had a bit of a frightfest vibe). The main cast created a believable couple and having now found out the bulk of the dialogue was an ad lib I'm even more impressed. Overall a decent attempt 7/10
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