Comments on: ‘Paranormal Activity’ – This spare niche project lives up to hype

By: Mike Kriskey

Mike Kriskey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:35 +0000

I just watched this based on your review, Christian, and I wanted to thank you. It was genuinely creepy.

The mechanism for keeping them in the house is a valid one. I’ve read a few books on the paranormal, and the distinction they make between hauntings and infestations—it’s the latter that’s happening here—are clear. Hauntings are always tied to a place, infestations can be tied to a person.

Without getting too spoilery, I thought the alternate ending on the DVD was more realistic, and given that this is supposed to be “found footage,” made for a better ending. And maybe both endings are unnecessary. If the penultimate scene (where Katie changes her mind) had been punched up, the movie could have ended right there, on a suitably “quietly-creepy” note.

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Watch Paranormal Activity Online — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:47:33 +0000

Great review, I saw the movie last night and it was by far the scariest movie that I’ve seen in a long time!

By: yeff

yeff — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:54:04 +0000

That was an Eddie Murphy routine.

By: jic

jic — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:16:31 +0000

Friends of mine, and they are neither all white, at that, reported a few years ago that they were going through something like the Amityville Horror. Did they immediately leave? No, they waited till they could get their money back, put it on the market and waited for a buyer.

Did they ever consider getting the plumbing and wiring fixed, replacing the boiler, and putting squirrel traps in the attic?

By: Charlos

Charlos — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:34:08 +0000

Was it Richard Pryor who did the routine, “Why do white folks stay in the haunted house?” Friends of mine, and they are neither all white, at that, reported a few years ago that they were going through something like the Amityville Horror. Did they immediately leave? No, they waited till they could get their money back, put it on the market and waited for a buyer. Some folks are just made of sterner stuff. And going through more desperate economic circumstances.