You’ve probably seen the footage from the preview and thought that Paranormal Activity, the most hyped up movie of the year, will chill you to the bone this Halloween ….it won’t. Smart yes, scary, puh-lease!
When I was a teenager me and my cousins used to make scary movies with our camcorder, you know like the satanic Closet that eats people, and this was about that speed except they had magnets and fire.
“A POTENT FRIGHTFEST
That will fry your nerves and
CREEP YOU OUT”
- Peter Travers ROLLING STONE“SO SCARY!
Just when you thought it was safe to close your eyes…GOOD LUCK GOING TO SLEEP!”
- Harry Knowles AINT IT COOL NEWS
We went to the Archlight yesterday with a friend who cautioned us we’d better be ready. Lynn even took four Advil before, for fear he was going to lock up and throw his back out. Arclight members had requested the low budget horror film (made for only $11,000) to play in the Dome exclusively but at 2:30 I noticed only six other people in the theater.
The film is shot very ‘Blair Witch’ style, without the shaking, and focuses on the haunting of a very big chested girl, and her entrepreneur boyfriend who documents the spirit that decends upon them night after night until I lost count at night 21. I bet the movie’s really scary when you have a theater full of couples eager to get their Date Night on. Unfortunately, we were there with no one but our expectations, and this asshole behind us who couldn’t stop chowing down on carmel corn until we moved and gave him and his very unlucky girlfriend the stank eye.
Let me break it down for you ok, build up, build up…noises at night, door slams, door slams again, oh my god what was that? Something catches on fire, oh my god did you hear that, ahhh, the end!
At the end I was scared the theater wasn’t going to give me my money back and I was right. If you do go, then see it with a theater full of gullible people like these ones….
