Paranormal Activity

Welcome to the Blair Witch Project of the 2000's. This movie, though a great viral marketing campaign, and first movie to have a concrete idea since the Blair Witch Project, managed to scare/enterain many. This movie could have been made by anyone at any cost. However, Oren Peli manages to make the idea sound throughout. He doesn't doze off on his idea.

In my opinion, no movies are scary. They are fake. As long as I know that, they don't bother me. This movie was decent enough because it didn't use the jump film crap that other horror movies use. You know, when they move the camera fast and jumpy and shift it to make things seem more scary as they catch you off guard.

This movie "documents" the life of a couple being haunted by a demonic presence at night. Kate, the woman in the movie has been haunted by this demon for years. Her boyfriend, Micah, determined to figure this out, decides to film every day/night of their lives. They slowly catch the demonic presence more and more each day. Finally it gets serious, and that's as far as I'll go.

This movie is good if you go with someone who scares easy as it will entertain you more. However, as with all low budget movies, the acting is sub-par as is the effects. But hey, for $15,000 total, this movie was done well.

Don't expect too much, and 90% of you will be scared.

I rate this movie 7.0 out of 10. [Buy Paranormal Activity Today]

The Haunting In Connecticut

I'm not sure if I made myself clear yet in any reviews, but I'm extremely critical of horror movies. Mostly because they have a shallow plot, and really are far from scary. Just some bad acting and special effects, and either jump camera tricks, or scary music to set the tone. I also don't believe in ghosts. So this movie being based on a true story interested me a lot. I wanted to see what it was all about.

To answer it plainly, wow this movie sucked. Not to mention, when matched up with the "true story," I found this movie wasn't very true at all, and neither was the story it was based on.

The acting was decent, surprisingly. The movie just didn't flow at all. It wasn't scary. The entire thing just seemed like a flash back to something that never happened.

Please don't see this.

I rate this movie 3.0 out of 10.