Movie Review: Paranormal Activity [Darleen Click]

We haven’t been to the movies in quite a while. With the choice of this summer’s offerings, we’d rather stay in with Netflix then fork over $10 a ticket to be insulted for a couple hours or more. The last movie we saw (and loved) was Up . However, with Halloween a couple weeks away (one of my fave holidays) we thought we’d give Paranormal Activity a look see. What initially attracted me to the movie was, from what little marketing has taken place, that this movie is more psychological susp

Paranormal Activity Review Round-Up

We have a review roundup for you to check out now, for the mockumentary horror movie ‘Paranormal Activity’ which received it’s premiere last night at the Screamfest Film Festival in the U.S. The reviews of the ‘Blair Witch Project-style’ movie come to us from ScreenCrave , SeattlePi and The Vancouver Sun , who have each given us their take on the movie. Heres the facts about the movie: it was completed in just one week for $15,000, using just a single camcorder throughout it’s entirety

Paranormal Activity - Review

By now, everybody has heard about the buzz about the phenomenon of the latest offering of cinema verite, Paranormal Activity. Ten years after The Blair Witch Project terrified audiences with the power of suggestion, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity uses the same cheap yet effective technique, buts amps up the terror a notch by actually showing you the horror that has unfortunately been bestowed upon a young couple by a supernatural entity. All shot in a two-storey home, the story follow

Paranormal Activity Director Headed for ‘Area 51′

As Paranormal Activity continues to spread to theaters across the nation , the film’s director, Oren Peli, has been keeping his hand-held camera focused on another modern phenomenon, Area 51 . For his next film, the Israeli-born director will be headed into America’s worst-kept secret, to tell the story of three teens whose stupidity curiosity leads them to the famous secret-section of the Nellis Air Force Base out in the Nevada Desert, in search of (what else?) extraterrestial phe

Paranormal Activity Freaks Out Audiences And Astounds Paramount

I’d forgotten about this movie considering the ads have been worming their way through the underground channels for nearly a year. It appears that Paranormal Activity might be the indy-horror hit of early fall if Paramount’s figures are any indication. The movie opens nationwide on October 9th, but consider the success of the movie so far after just one weekend…which we’ll discuss after the jump. See the trailer, too. Paramount is taking a very progressive marketing approach towards getti

Paranormal Activity Review

SHORT VERSION: “Scariest Movie Ever” is a tall order to fill, but Paranormal Activity is definitely a serious fright flick that will continue to creep you out long after the movie ends. Screen Rant Reviews Paranormal Activity Paranormal Activity is a little film that was reportedly made for $11,000 over the course of a seven-day shoot by writer/director/producer/editor Oren Peli, and stars newbies Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat and the couple’s camcorder. The ghost story is

Telluride Review: Paranormal Activity

Once the novelty of the first-person, subjective-camera horror flicks ( Blair Witch, Cloverfield , Quarantine , Diary of the Dead , etc,) wore off for me, I started having logistical issues with the genre. After a while, you can't help but start paying attention to the inherent implausibility of the characters as persistent, skilled camerapeople who keep rolling when any reasonable person would have ditched the damn camcorder long ago. That may seem insanely picky, but it's what happens when t