18 December 2009

Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007)

4/10
Cobbling together a series of creepy albeit repetitive vignettes (film some weird happening at night, watch it the next day, talk about how scary it is, repeat) does not a good movie make. The two main characters embody so many horror character clichés (the impotent female and the skeptical male at their most basic) you find yourself cheering for the ghost or demon, or whatever it may be. I'll give the film credit for originality and not relying on gore or ever truly answering the question of what's haunting the two, but I was hoping for a lot better after all the hype.

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