Paranormal Activity

Posted on | October 31, 2009 | No Comments

Decided to spend Halloween out of the house to avoid the sugar beggars, so we caught a showing of Paranormal Activity.

I’ve heard a lot about it, including hearing it was the “scariest movie ever”. I don’t think I would go that far, but it was definitely creepy.

The thing is, it was also funny – for a couple of reasons.

The couple was really good; the way they played off each other was very believable, the little benign interactions, even the looks she gives him when he’s a jerk. There were a lot of laugh lines.
We saw it in a theater filled with people, predominantly Hispanic. There was a lot of reaction to what was happening on screen – hearing the guy at the end of the row say, “Duuude” was pretty amusing.

All-in-all, definitely worth seeing, though I would like to know what the original, non-Spielberg’d ending was.

And you’ve gotta love a $15,000 investment that pays off with over $9 million the first weekend of release.

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