Who doesn’t like scary movies?  That feeling of being terrified and scared so much that our adrenaline starts pumping is what makes us go to scary movies.  The edginess of not knowing what’s around the corner, who’s behind the shower curtain and WHY that blonde girl is going BACK into the room where we all KNOW she is going to get slashed by someone or something we all just expect.  But then there are those movies that come along and truly terrify us to the point of when we are done with the film we wonder what is going to come next when we go home and turn out the lights when we go to sleep.

That’s another thing about scary movies: they all take place at night.  The darkness itself is something that we can all be a bit terrified of.  There is a bit of hesitation (you all know it) that when you’re about to shut the lights off for the first time after seeing a good scary movie that you do a few things:

1. You make sure you are facing your bed with your hand on the light switch.

2. You look at your route to bed and map it in your head and the final is we all take a somewhat deep breath and get ready for a little bit of uneasiness the first few seconds of darkness will bring.

“Paranormal Activity” has all that and more in it.  It’s a scary film but not like the “slasher” films we watch.  It’s not like the alien abduction stories that make us wonder if it could happen.  It’s in its own realm when it comes to scary movies.

Take “The Blair Witch Project” and mix it with “The Exorcist” or “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”.  It blends the fundamentals of Demons and evil with the grunge of documentary, hand-held camera styles that puts you right into the movie.  There is also a natural quality to the film.  The dialogue doesn’t seem scripted and neither do the movements of the characters.  They seem to flow as we do in real life.  The speak as we would in a day to day manner and their actions are the same

When I say it puts you right in the movie…I mean it.  Micha, the boyfriend, takes us on a tour of the house and gives the reason why he is filming and it’s due to some “unnatural” activity that is going on and he wants to capture it.  Katie, the girlfriend, comes home and at first is okay with the idea but that is in the beginning.  They hire a psychic to come to the house and see if he can feel what’s going on and he deduces that it is most likely a demon that is haunting them since it is something that has followed Katie from her childhood.  He gives them a number of a colleague that is a demonologist and the two then go to bed for the first time with the camera.

In the beginning it’s small things that happen.  A simple opening and closing of the door a foot, footsteps in the hallway and then one night there is a loud bang heard from what sounds like it came from the attic or above the living room and there is a chandelier swaying.

Things start to get progressively worse with situation and Micha says that they should try communicating with the demon by suggesting a Ouiji board but then has to promise he won’t go out and buy one.  Well he doesn’t buy one but “borrows one” from a friend and this leads to a big fight between the two that escalates the tension and “negative” energy that the psychic said the demon would feed off of.

Without giving away the second half of the movie I will end the plot description here.  I don’t want to give ANYTHING away because the end is…well…scary.

If you are looking for a movie that is just fun to go to and get a good jolt from…this is not the movie for you.

If you want something with substance that makes you feel like you are IN the movie and dealing with every footstep you hear, makes you jump a little at every light that flips on then this is the movie for you.  But I will warn you of this: make sure there are no 15-year-old girls behind you that are scared out of their minds.  It may add to the feeling but having to turn around to them during the tense parts of the film and tell them to “shut up” might take you out of the experience.

Movie Rating:  9/10

Editor’s Note: Check out a video review of “Paranormal Activity” on our sister site, nuDia.tv.

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