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Paranormal Activity
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micha Sloat (as themseeeelves....da dum da DUM.... cue eerie music)
Directed by : Oren Peli
86 min
Rated: R for language
Tagline- Don't see it alone.
This was filmed in 2007. It's an independent-type flick, and the filmmakers did it on the measly budget of like, I don't know, ten bucks. Or the movie-making equivalent. So here's the skinny on this skeery gol dang film, which you may or may not have ever heard of, and if you have, might possibly have heard accompanied with the tagline- YOU DEMANDED IT, you GOT it!
Basically, this was supposed to be released in only 13 cities across the US. However, word-of-mouth had it that this was not only "different" form your typical horror movie, it was darn GOOD, too. So people could go to this place, and ask that it be shown in their area. They did, it was, and I went and saw it. That's the short version of the story,and if you want the loooong one...well, go here. I don't want to type that much.
This film is made ala Blair Witch... you know, the "home movie" tape that is found after some horrible, inexplicable crime has been committed, and the viewers can piece together thier own idea of whodunit, without a whole lot of intellectual wrestling. There aren't lots of shaky lenses or heavy breathings, but it has enough authenticity to be believable. The stars of the show are a young boyfriend and girlfriend, Katie and Micah, who have been living together for three years and genuinely still seem to like each other. Although "strange things" happened to Katie as a little girl, she hasn't been disturbed by them since the age of thirteen, and has lived a relatively normal, happy, non-paranormal life.... until now. Suddenly, she's hearing things that go bump in the night, and Micah, while a skeptic, loves his girlfriend (and technology) enough to go out and get a video camera, to see if it records any paranormal activity while they're aslumbering. And oh, does it ever. Further details, just to set up the scare- a psychic called to the house not only says this isn't a "human spirit", but that it's not attached to the house, but to Katie.
In other words, she can't run away from it.
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