Trailer - Paranormal Activity 3

Teaser trailer... although it's called Paranormal Activity 3, it seems to be a prequel...

Review - Paranormal Activity 2

After the success of the first movie (and the initial success of The Blair Witch Project), this movie had to be greenlit of course... and there's even a third one on the way already...

Part 2 tells the story of Kristi, Katie's sister... ya know, Katie from the first movie... and Part 2 is more like a prequel that parallel's the first movie's timeline but actually started before the events of the first movie started, hence Katie and Micah (who we all know, had died from the first movie) can make appearances...

This movie also explains a bit more of what was happening and why it was happening... basically, Kristi gave birth to a son and was now experiencing the same horror and trauma that befell Katie...

I like this movie and the horror/scare factor from the first movie was utilized well here... unfortunately, they took their time to set up the scary and it was kinda boring actually to wait... unless this was the first movie... then the build up is kinda nice... but since Paranormal Activity had set up the chill factor and most of us has seen it, the wait was not a good thing...

And they were following the first movie's formula to a T... the woman gets harassed by a supernatural thing and the man is the disbeliever... which was a bit annoying at that point...

Apparently, there were multiple versions of the ending of the first movie... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity#Alternative_versions

The version I saw on DVD was the one with the 'They All Die' ending... but when it was shown in America, Katie had survived... when I saw this movie, in my mind, Katie had perished and the thing that showed up at Kristi's was the demon... hence the brutal murders in a not humanly possible way happened...

I wonder how they're gonna do Part 3...

Box Office

Scaring up the competition, one week before Halloween... Paranormal Activity 2.... :)

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-box-office-20101025,0,5064770.story

Eclipse

Eclipse has started showing today at midnight and it had taken in more than 30 million! Read here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/twilight/7865573/Twilight-Saga-Eclipse-breaks-records.html

Also, the trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 is shown before Eclipse... apparently it's scary as hell - http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/01/paranormal-activity-2-eclipse-trailer/

Paranormal Activity

According to GSC, Paranormal Activity (PA) is scheduled to be shown in January.

Hmm, who has time to wait right? PA was the blockbuster hit during Halloween in the States... so I went and sought for its DVD and of course, found it.

Paranormal Activity is directed by Oren Peli and stars Katie Featherson and Micah Sloat as Katie and Micah. Katie is claiming that she's being haunted by some unknown entity and Micah, being the modern skeptic, decides to film their room while they are sleeping to see what really goes on.

This movie is kinda like The Blair Witch Project but without the nauseating camera work and Katie is not as annoying (or loud) like Heather from TBWP.

The setting is simple and the budget is apparently low but the scare tactics quite good. It really is kinda scary. The script sounds okay and real. The acting is okay, although sometimes it's a bit off. Yes, acting and script. This is a movie and not a real taped event. Had to remind my sister many, many times.

I've always said this... the things you can't see and/or touch are far scarier than things you can see... and Paranormal Activity (and The Blair Witch Project) employs this technique nicely. Of course, it is scary to see a bloodied, long haired, white wearing, pale faced woman limping towards a screaming person but it's far scarier not seeing the entity, yet we can see/tell its presence...

The ending... a bit too Blair Witch for me... and kinda ruined the previous scare factors... but still, it's a pretty good, entertaining movie to watch with loved ones and snuggle... :)

Watch the trailer....