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Paranormal Activity (2009) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
2778 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.57/4 |
# of Ratings: |
266 |
Genres: |
Horror |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
Theater Date: | 09/25/2009 |
DVD Release: |
12/29/2009 |
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Director: |
Oren Peli |
Actors: |
Michael Bayouth
Katie Featherston
Randy McDowell
Ashley Palmer
Tim Piper
Amber Armstrong |
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Plot Outline:
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A couple moves into a typical suburban tract house, but soon begins to experience strange phenomena at night. Setting up a video camera, they hope to capture evidence of the force, demonic or otherwise, that is terrorizing them. -- Chris Kavan
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Gabe 12/20/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
1/4 |
I don't know if I can write a review telling you how god awful this movie was. First of all, it wasn't even scary. Rule number one, if your going to make a scary movie, don't give audio and visual cues when something is about to happen and the viewer can prepare itself for the scare. And seriously, didn't we go through this 10 years ago with The Blair Witch Project (1999). A movie that was so full of hype that it couldn't possibly live up to it. And the whole hand-held, amateur camera thing, it doesn't work. Only see this if you want to be bored and would like to check your watch wondering how much longer this is going to go on. |
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Tjommi 08/29/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
1/4 |
This is as mentioned a scary movie that fail to be scary. Even though I managed to miss the hype prior to the release and watched this without knowing what I was watching, I still thought it boring. I don't belive in ghosts, and when they fail to get me care the slightest about the people going through the ordeal or the story, leaving to much to my imagination is a very bad idea, as I end up with the conclution that I did, that this is just silly.
The people that made this movie are very clever. I do belive it's an accurate comparisment that the amount of money they made for what they delivered was like successfully getting rich on sell snow on the north pole. |
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02/11/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Paranormal Activity review |
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Katie and Micah are haunted by a supernatural occurrence in their home. Katie hires a psychic, Dr. Fredrichs (Mark Fredrichs), who assesses that she is being haunted not by a ghost, but by a demon. It’s funny how the couple always leaves their door open as if persuading the demon to do its thing in front of the camera. Not sure why Dr. Fredrichs mentioned that they couldn’t do anything even if they left the house. Alternate ending was not as scary as the one on the film. This hand held film was way scarier than Blair Witch Project and could have been in this reviewers top horror list if it was better planned in terms of realism instead of having somewhat illogical characters and a few overlong dull moments. The thing about this documentary style of filming is that you don't need gor... |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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03/26/2011 (1 of 1 found this helpful) |
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*Rolls eyes* |
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I was one of those fools who "demanded" Paranormal Activity during it's campaign for mass release. Well, you know what they say about hindsight.
I went into this movie wanting to be scared. I saw it on Halloween. I love Halloween. I basically wanted to pee my pants watching this movie, or at the very least have to sleep with my light on for a few nights. Instead, I spent at least an hour sitting through a boyfriend videoing his girlfriend and waiting for something to happen other than watching them sleep and brush their teeth. Like, seriously. Nothing happens until the last 15 minutes of the movie and of the last 15 minutes, there's only one thing that impressed me at all- the scene many others have mentioned, the girl getting dragged out of bed. That part's pretty cool, but not worth si... |
Rating of
1/4 |
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08/10/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Not As Scary As I Thought It Would Be. |
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This movie was pretty good. Not as scary as I thought it would be. I never really jumped out of my seat like they always show in those stupid commercials. People say that this movie is really unique, but the only unique thing about it is that it made with a hand-held camera. Besides that, it is pretty much like every other horror movie. I found it took too long and they could've done so much more with this idea, they would have cut half the talking from this and added more demon scenes I would give this movie a higher score. The ending was the only thing that really creeped me out, there were other scary parts, when she gets dragged off the bed, the Ouija board scene. But the ending was just perfect. The screaming stops, soft footsteps up the stairs, then BOOM Micah's body is thrown at th... |
Rating of
2/4 |
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