I personally liked it. To me this movie proved two things
1) less is more
2) you can do a notable movie on a budget.
I don't scare easy, the last movie that had me this rattled was Event Horizon where I waited for my parents to get home and THEN I went to bed.
I don't think it's the greatest thing since slice bread, or its life changing, I just feel that the movie was EFFECTIVE! Their special effects were original and simple enough to break THROUGH certain barriers in our movie going experience. If you KNOW or can FIGURE out HOW they did something, it takes away from the authenticity of a scene. Of keeping the Suspension of Disbelief. If your able to somehow break past that, then the audience will be more likely GO with the obvious stuff like a chandelier swinging.
It saddens me that people think HORROR is BLOOD GUTS and a VERY clear picture of what's going on. To me horror IS the unknown, a movie is scary to me UNTILL they explain EVERYTHING! Deep Rising was an effective horror movie to me (at that age) UNTILL they SHOWED and EXPLAINED the creature. A great horror movie is one you can play a few more times and it still scares you. If its one that keeps you guessing and you notice NEW stuff every time you see it, and your STILL trying to figure out WHAT is going on, then it has achieved something that few horror movies can.
Look at ALfred Hitchcock the BIRDS... HE never explains WHY! NEVER EVER! and because of that, the movie STILL retains a certain level of TERROR! you might not be as FULLY scared as you were when you first watched it, but you still feel a level of uneasiness.
I feel that Paranormal Activity did that. I was on point to know kind of WHAT was going on, but lost enough for the UNKNOWN factor to still play a part. Will I still be fully scared if I go see it again? Unknown. But I will probably see or notice stuff that I didn't before from not knowing WHERE to look. Do i realize that it was fake, YES I DO, AM I awake right now cuz i can't get that since of uneasiness out of my own HEAD.... YES, yes I am.
So what do you think?
1) less is more
2) you can do a notable movie on a budget.
I don't scare easy, the last movie that had me this rattled was Event Horizon where I waited for my parents to get home and THEN I went to bed.
I don't think it's the greatest thing since slice bread, or its life changing, I just feel that the movie was EFFECTIVE! Their special effects were original and simple enough to break THROUGH certain barriers in our movie going experience. If you KNOW or can FIGURE out HOW they did something, it takes away from the authenticity of a scene. Of keeping the Suspension of Disbelief. If your able to somehow break past that, then the audience will be more likely GO with the obvious stuff like a chandelier swinging.
It saddens me that people think HORROR is BLOOD GUTS and a VERY clear picture of what's going on. To me horror IS the unknown, a movie is scary to me UNTILL they explain EVERYTHING! Deep Rising was an effective horror movie to me (at that age) UNTILL they SHOWED and EXPLAINED the creature. A great horror movie is one you can play a few more times and it still scares you. If its one that keeps you guessing and you notice NEW stuff every time you see it, and your STILL trying to figure out WHAT is going on, then it has achieved something that few horror movies can.
Look at ALfred Hitchcock the BIRDS... HE never explains WHY! NEVER EVER! and because of that, the movie STILL retains a certain level of TERROR! you might not be as FULLY scared as you were when you first watched it, but you still feel a level of uneasiness.
I feel that Paranormal Activity did that. I was on point to know kind of WHAT was going on, but lost enough for the UNKNOWN factor to still play a part. Will I still be fully scared if I go see it again? Unknown. But I will probably see or notice stuff that I didn't before from not knowing WHERE to look. Do i realize that it was fake, YES I DO, AM I awake right now cuz i can't get that since of uneasiness out of my own HEAD.... YES, yes I am.
So what do you think?
