serious fix

For starters, up until the end of this movie it was perfect. This is how the stuff goes down. The story was accurate in its portrayal … completely and totally so. Everything I have ever read, heard, saw or experienced can absolutely happen in this manner. Demonic infestation is nothing to laugh about. This kind of paranormal activity is not all cute like they portray on TV, kids. It is ugly and painful and can hurt families and kill people.

Paranormal Activity centers on a couple. Micah is trying to figure out what is happening with his girlfriend, Katie, and their home. Apparently she hears her name being whispered and there has been knocking and scratching noises in the walls. So he begins to film. There is a psychic that gives her the phone number of a guy that may be able to help them. Because the demon has Micah thinking he can figure this out on his own (by setting up different puzzles, puzzles which are always almost solved by Micah but not solvable at all), he asks her to not call the number.

In real life, demons make you think you are in control and that you can fix the situation on your own because you are finding answers to the clues they leave which always lead to more clues and paths. In actuality you are finding no answers and you are spiraling down into their control. This film shows this to perfection and is one of the more recent films to actually stay true to this for most of the film. This is how shit goes down in the world of demons. The movie is a great example of that.

The characters in this film are corny. Probably much like you and I. There is no Hollywood polish on the dialogue and I am very happy about that because it seems quite natural. There are inside relationship jokes thrown in for good measure and Oren Peli really brought the characters to life with this … not that glitz life everyone is beginning to think is real.

Funny thing, Micah has this camera and he wants so bad to film he and his girl doing the dugout dip that he practically begs. And every time he begs she turns him down and he turns the camera off. If it was me I would have used the setting to turn the power light off so she didn’t know it was running and stream that stuff live on my Facebook account.

Out of respect for Oren and the rest of the cast and crew I will not spoil the ending of this movie. I do have to say that I did not like the ending. It felt as though it was a bit rushed. No offense to anyone involved in the project … I just did not like the ending.

I am going to say if you absolutely have to be scared and want to see something other than the mainstream horror swill this is the movie to see right now. This beat the hell out of Zombieland. Go and see it.

- tss

PS: This is off topic, but if you want to hear some EVPs and read stories from some of the places we’ve investigated please go to ParaSci.org. I will have an article about this soon enough as it looks like we are gearing up to go back out.