Gave in to the hype and watched 'Paranormal Activity' to avoid working. Utter balls. Sloppily written, failed to capture the realism it was so desperately groping for, one cliche after another... Tried to rip off elements of B-Witch and Exorcist unsuccessfully. There were a couple of moments of tension (some of the sound/visual effects were nifty), but the makers obviously had no idea what to do with it. I was too busy hating it to be scared.
The extremely annoying photogenic couple living in their affluent suburb you just want to die writhing in agony from the get-go... let's just say I stuck with this for the boredom and the expectation of a pay-off - it never arrived.
Whereas Blair Witch tore your nerves to shreds when it first came out, PA just leaves you and wondering how popular standards have sunk so low, then realizing it's because of sh*t like this and wanting to go on stabbing spree
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