'Paranormal Activity'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074

if anyone what to see this movie, you will need to demand it (like did to make sure it comes to Birmingham UK or were you are.
here to demand it: http://www.paranormalmovie.com/?gcli...FRZeagodrRYTiQ

can't believe those crappy little epic movies, disaster movie, meet the spartans get nation wide release and this doesn't.

Another vote for it to come to Birmingham.

I know! I voted for it to come to my city too. It was released Sept 25 with probably no publicity and just a few theaters. They really need to give these smaller flicks a chance. Has that "Blair Witch" feel...

I viewed it last night in Toronto at a 12PM showing. Ended up getting 2 HRS of sleep total because of what it does to your psyche. If you know nothing about it, go in knowing nothing about it, this is one you don't want to spoil for yourself. It should be wide-released before the end of October. MAKE SURE you see it in the theater.

As soon as its showing here, my butt will be there to see it. this flick looks bad ass

I looks weak as hell to me. A blair witch knock off with colverfield-esque camera work.

At least that's what I get from the trailers. I guess I'm in the minority in not caring about this flick at all.

i want to see it.

Wow. Havent been scared in a long time.
Perfectly done. I give it A-
The minus only cause I always want more.
Blows blair witch project away. An entire new level of paranormal activity.
Damn just watch it.

4:23am

For anyone that didnt live anywhere near where it was showing, they 'hit their million requests' mark.
Their site says theyll be starting wide release on the 16th, with the sites Theaters-Showing list being updated by end of the day on the 13th.

I think that whole 'we get a million requests and we will do a wide release' gimic was b.s, but w/e.

i love your avatar, what is it from? kind of looks like a moebius comic book illustration.

So I've been waiting for paranormal activity to show up on this blog for about a week now and it hasn't.. i decided to spend my $5 that i had and go see it, and i was literally blown away by how well put together the movie was and i was scared. The movie is similar to the movie quarantine as far as the hand held camera point of view but it was also 5 times scarier. i strongly suggest everyone goes and see it but if u get scared easily DONT.

Sorry, wasn't impressed at all. Very overated film in my opinion. I dont find the subject of ghosts the least bit scary.

...'The Fly', now thats scary. Your genitals falling off in your hands! that shit me up good. Oh and 'Fire in the Sky'.

QSS is a blog? WTF are you talking about?

On a serious note It look's cheesy, hokey, unoriginal, blairwitch-knockoffy, and contrived. Thus I have no desire to see it.

I just saw it, and had to laugh at all the ppl leaving the theater trying to convince their friends that the footage was real....lol

i wanna see it, im hoping it comes to our theater next week *crosses fingers*

i wannna watch this :/

This movie makes me ashamed to be from Texas.

I couldn't get thru the first 30 minutes. Such utter crap.

Finally seen the movie to me it was boring i jumped maybee twice was like wtf alot of the times just very boring

since when did horror films consist of just making you jump? I hate it when people say they love horror films like the Saw franchise...I just don't get why people assume horror means snuff.

This film was scary because the slightly nuances on screen would scare the crap out of you, if that doesn't scare you fair enough maybe you need more in your face heres a guy trying to kill this guy film. It wasn't boring at all, the tension building was immense and for $15 grand it was a damn sight better than A LOT of the horror films out there.

I guess ya just gotta look at it from different perspectives.... if ya not into ghosts and what not then really i doubt this movie will be your thing... and also if ya mind is already made up about a flick then ya just not gonna enjoy it as much ...
But for the ones who like this kinda thing ...then i think this is a good change compared to alot of paranormal or ghost movies ...

I've done abit of of looking around and can't really say i found a movie like this .... I mean ya have ya paranormal movies ie poltergeist and yeah maybe even blair witch *shudder* but i don't think i have seen or come across a movie that captures what alot of people look for in a ghost movie....
Alot of other ghost movies ...you eventually see the ghost and yeah all sorts of weird things happen to the end where as this movie had ya always wondering wtf will happen next...

tis my 2 cents anyways ....

Watched this one yesterday and i have to say i thoroughly enjoyed it, much better than i expected.

I tried watching this, all the buzz is all good about it but.... am I the only one who after 5 minutes had blair witch flashbacks and was like " I WILL NEVER WASTE 90 MINUTES AGAIN". Unless it's Porn, bruce campbell or some kid lighting a firecracker out of his ass I don't want to see shaky handheld shots.

Ok. So I was just clued into a major problem with our wonderfull DVDscreener copy of this movie... THEY CHANGED THE ENDING FOR THEATERS!!!



At the request of Steven Spielberg, the people who made the movie, changed the ending, which apparently made it a hell of a lot more scary! So damnit all, we'll have to wait for a cam of the new ending or see it in theaters anyway.

Makes since though... Cause every person I've talked to about this movie sad they loved it, but I didn't see anything special about the ending. Looks like I'll be shelling out some cash after all.

Just a heads up people...

Why would forcing myself to sit thru something that was so horrible 30 minutes in have anything to do with ADD?

A bad movie is a bad movie, I didn't feel like I could finish it. It was hokey and derivative and I could smell more bad dialog and horrible shaky cam a mile a way so I quit watching.

You loved it I take it? So what? I could care less, I hated what I saw of it, and I doubt sitting thru the rest of it would change my opinion besides for feeling like someone was pulling my teeth with no Novocaine.

If your opinion of it is that it was bad, i guess it just wasn't your type of movie. I on the other hand enjoyed it and i haven't been impressed with a lot of previous movies shot with the camcorder method. I couldn't stand the Blair Witch project for one and it seemed to be a massively popular movie so lots must have thought it great, you're now in my shoes from when that movie was released but for this one lol. Not saying you liked the Blair Witch one, just rambling.



As for dudamis, your comments are neither adding to the discussion nor appropriate. I suggest you quit trying to be so insulting.

And you ended up missing out on the best parts of the movie, the parts you watched was just the build up. Yeah build up, what a concept, introduce characters and setting before the shit hits the fan.

smart move on the filmmakers part...wait until the nationwide release and then "leak" the dvd screener with the original ending

Didn't like it much. The balloon boy saga had more thrills. Nowhere near the scare factor of Blair Witch. 3/10

After she goes sleep walking she asks him the next day if she said anything and he says he doesn't remember. They watch the clip together mind you of her walking out the room and what happens after and it's clear from their conversation that he's watched the whole tape before watching it with her. If we saw the clip of her talking to him on the swing then he was taping it because all this is the videotaped account of their encounters. How they didn't catch that while editing blows my mind. Inconsistencies aside I was just bored.

wtf happened to her did she stab up her husband if so why?? was she posses by the ghost? and what happened to the alternate ending ?? the best part of this movie is when that girl got drag by her feet by the ghost while she was asleep lol..and is this base on a true story or just plain bullshit???

Worse film of the year,not enough story about who the demon was,ie how it became attached to her as a child,not enough paranormal help from experts to make it feel authentic plus the spec effects remind me of old horror films moving stuff with fishing line etc,i'm expecting the next hyped up film ,the 4th kind to be actually the same type of garbage.

It was Scary how BORING it was. to be fair i didn't watch it all but sheesh maybe an hour in and still waiting for SOMETHING TO HAPPEN. oh well, to each their own.

I thought this movie was very well done, especially considering budget. I felt the actors were very believable and it definitely held my attention throughout the whole thing. It was a very nice change from the absolute junk that gets released on a regular basis. I watch a lot of horror flicks, and this is the first one in a while that gave me chills. There's a lot to be said about realism, which horror movies almost always lack. To the people that didn't like it; bet you guys are HUGE Michael Bay fans, lol.

wtf, are you serious? help from paranormal "experts"?

lol

I don't know if you watched the distributor's copy that was linked to on these forums or if you saw it in theaters but in the version I watched here at home (thanks to QSS!) it explained that these types of possessions are generally random. Now, I admittedly possess a very small amount of knowledge on these matters but what *I* have been told, that's the general consensus among the experts that claim this kind of thing is real. As for there not being a 'back story' on the demon, well, unless they decided to allow Google to sponsor the film, I'm not quite sure how they would have added the demon's back story to the movie... it would have stretched the already unlikely material to the breaking point. Real life doesn't have answers... the only way a movie like this could actually pull off being 'scary' is to be subtle and NOT hand feed the audience every bit of information. Furthermore, wanting to know 'who' the demon was is just silly because, according to the mythos of the movie, a demon is not a person... Trying to explain 'who' the demon was doesn't make sense. The demon's specific identity is also completely inconsequential to the plot. It's a demon. It's bad. It possesses people and makes footprints in baby powder... occasionally it decides to have a laugh and drag people out of bed by their legs. Who it is isn't nearly as important as what it DOES.

Having the paranormal experts come in and explain everything to the characters would detract from the subtlety of the movie and could have possibly turned the movie into a cross between The Blair Witch Project and The Exorcist... not a good idea. The expert they DID bring in was too afraid to deal with the problem and ended up leaving the characters which adds to the suspense of the movie. Instead of relying on outside help, the characters are forced to deal with a problem that is obviously beyond them. I have to disagree with you... I actually thought the lack of hand-fed explanations and experts-that-border-on-omniscient was an effective plot device rather than detracting from the movie.

The special effects, like the movie, were subtle. I'm glad there was no 'turning the head 360 degrees' and vomiting of split pea soup going on. The Exorcist was awesome and I'm not knocking it... but it's been DONE and would have been completely predictable. And hey, maybe they were using fishing line, who knows... but at least they didn't pull a 'Carrie' and forget to edit out their means of creating these events.

If you wanted crazy special effects, you shouldn't go see movies that are made for under $15,000. The budget alone makes the movie all the more impressive.

Obviously, I enjoyed this movie. Obviously, you didn't... and that's fine... Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. However, I seriously doubt this was the 'worst movie of the year.' The things you complained about are they very things that make this movie different from all of those slasher/possession/corny teenage flicks that I can't help but roll my eyes at. Maybe the unrealistic, grossly exaggerated, hand-fed plot with more blood than a Gwar concert is your kinda thing... It's just not mine.

Worst movie this year.

This movie drug on way too much and the ending was shit. I kept waiting to see a demon appear in the hallway or something and there was nothing. Just shadows, footprint sounds, banging & groaning. Then the ending? She just get's possessed and kills her boyfriend? Then the cops kill her? Big whoop! Waste of my time really. Hell quarantine was scarier IMO.

I thought this movie was scary as hell! Who hasn't at least once had a door swing slightly, or sit up in bed thinking you heard something. Everyone has! Next time it happens to me I know this movie is going to come back to haunt me!..lol Your left to your imagination as to what "it" is and dam my mind at least thought some nasty shit! I thought this movie was scary as hell and I'm going to the the theater tonight, I'm curious to see how the theatrical version differs. Guess one more night of no sleep..lol If ghosts, hauntings and the such scare you, go see this!

I watched this movie for the first time today and while I was no where near scared, it was not a bad movie. I actually was working on my computer and had it playing on the TV and after about 30 minutes, i got interested enough to stop my work. Not that that means much to others but not many movies do that.

I watched the "other" ending on Youtube and in my opinion it was a little better than the one we seen. It just made me feel that the "demon" really hated the husband because of the taunting and the camera. However, I don't think she should have gone missing. She should have passed out or killed herself. The fact that she disappears makes the movie less realistic.


On a side note, did anyone notice that the door in the background in the final scene( the one where the lights turns on and off) closes as the girl is shot.

Also, if you listen, the cops claim that the shots came from the room and not them. That's the only part i wasn't a fan of. Were they just trying to cover their own butts by pretending and if so then why were they so elaborate about pretending the shots came from behind them since at this point, they did not know about the camera?


EDIT: Also, after the first few nights, you would think they would start closing the bedroom door. Not that it would make a difference but most people would still close it. Also, after she went sleepwalking, I would have put a padlock on the door and only have the husband know where the key was. This way, she could not sleepwalk out and the demon could not drag her out.

Theatrical ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjtgUvKn5dY

I thought the theatrical ending a much better choice: leaving the whereabouts of the demon is a nice hanging thread.

I vote Micah as the stupidest horror-movie hero, ever...dumber even, than Ash, from Army of Darkness!

And finally, no...this wasn't the "scariest movie I've ever seen:" even on QSS. That honor goes to "Splinter."

Can't believe people watched this, after the first 25 mins I almost threw my laptop out of the window. terrible movie

Wow, u must post on IMDb lots eh?

Sounds like one of those ppl...when you chuck teh PC, lemme know, I'm on a 2004 comp.

Me, gore and violence like the silly Saw movies (it blew Saw VI out of the water on weekend box..) bores me for the most part...my dad was a coroner so I've seen worse when I was 8 than can legally be put on a screen.

This was damn creepy though. To be fair, I hated how they handled the ending.

This movie and the people behind the viral advertising are so full of themselves.

The film was so boring and lacklustre.

It got to be a joke towards the end of the film, when the details of Diane are revealed, I actually laughed and was half expecting Jigsaw to pop out any second. It was so hokey.

Thank god I didn't pay to see this.

most of the info you find out about Diane in the screener is left out of the theatrical version.... I went to see this in the cinema, and just watched the screener... its not two entirely diff movies, but there are enough differences to notice. The ending would have really been cool of they had combined them somehow, like in the theatrical she throws Micah at the camera, but in the screener she leaves him downstairs and the demon kills her girlfriend the next night... Maybe if they had her throw the girl at the camera too, then ended that way. If I had to pick between the two endings, I'd have to go with the theatrical.. it was darker and left more to the imagination.

The only time I was startled was when the chick was dragged down the corridoor by her ankle. Sure everytime the lights went out at night it was tense to watch - However, by the next morning, you'de be disapointed. It was a poor watch, an hour in and no major action I was tempted to turn it off. I will say the actors did well, but that doesn't make up for a poor plot.

Take this from me - I'm shit scared of horrors. If a movie doesn't scare me, it's got to be flawed.

I don't think the "Demon" killed her friend though. I think she seen the body, freaked out and ran out the front door. Then she proceeded to call the cops and they found Micah dead then found her dead.

Well they've certainly turned a profit on the flick that's for sure, $15,000 to make the movie and it's made $62million so far.

Good for them they made a great horror film here , its really hard to scare the crap out of people and to do it on no budget is just amazing . Films are just not that scary anymore , now and again a good one comes along like The Ring or Blair Witch , its interesting to see how they polarise people , they just love it or hate it , personally i loved it . Im sure Hollywood is already planning on how to ruin it by tryna make another one .