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Paranormal Activity was pretty scary, without any gore.
Paranormal Activity was probably the worst movie I've seen in a long time.
It was NOT scary AT ALL! You all must be scared of paperclips too.
However, I will give props to the marketing team for that movie. They really did a swell job of fooling everyone into thinking it was going to be something special.
White Noise (2005/I) was pretty good. Of course, anything with Michael Keaton is. Not sure why the premise is not used more often but I guess I should be thankful
I am ALWAYS watching scary movies (between 2-3 hundred at least in my 34 years) and even though few do scare me...Paranormal Activity IS one of the if not THE scariest movies I have ever seen.
It's scary to me because of its masterful job of pacing and it builds the suspense slowly. The payoff during the last 15 minutes of the movie is all predicated on watching the rest of the movie where small things happen, then a little more disturbing, then a little more...
Also, it takes place in YOUR bedroom, not the woods or in a swamp, or on a ship. The fact that it takes place in somewhere as safe as your bedroom is unerving. Something unseen is there with you where no matter how indestructable you think you are when putting your covers over your head can save you! Definitely first rate.
I am ALWAYS watching scary movies (between 2-3 hundred at least in my 34 years) and even though few do scare me...Paranormal Activity IS one of the if not THE scariest movies I have ever seen.
It's scary to me because of its masterful job of pacing and it builds the suspense slowly. The payoff during the last 15 minutes of the movie is all predicated on watching the rest of the movie where small things happen, then a little more disturbing, then a little more...
Also, it takes place in YOUR bedroom, not the woods or in a swamp, or on a ship. The fact that it takes place in somewhere as safe as your bedroom is unerving. Something unseen is there with you where no matter how indestructable you think you are when putting your covers over your head can save you! Definitely first rate.
LOL. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY? Are you serious? One of the worst horror movies ever. But like I said before, the marketing team for that movie did a great job. Fooled everyone into thinking it was something special.
Go watch The Shining for a good horror movie with little gore. Go watch Paranormal Activity for a scare if you are afraid of puppies and paperclips!
LOL. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY? Are you serious? One of the worst horror movies ever. But like I said before, the marketing team for that movie did a great job. Fooled everyone into thinking it was something special.
Go watch The Shining for a good horror movie with little gore. Go watch Paranormal Activity for a scare if you are afraid of puppies and paperclips!
Cyclone,
We may need to disagree on this one, but I will give it one more try. Really read my words this time..Look, I have seen "The Shining" in its many forms and I do love the movie (the orginial anyways), there are many positive things about it from a filmakers point of view, but it is outshone by Paranormal for a couple diffrent reasons.
First of all, PA was shot in 10 days for 11K! And is a film that actually imho managed to do what many hollywood "horror" films do not nowadays and that was make the audience use their imagination a bit. Stephen King once said that nothing the author or filmmaker can show you in regards to "what's on the other side of the door" is ever as scary as what the reader, viewer's imagination can produce. I agree with him. This is why some films like ALIEN work, and the first 2/3 of Jaws, (admit it, as great a film as JAWS is, once you see the shark prominently towards the end, it really diminishes) Even “The Shining” you KNOW what the bad guy looks like.
For me and many others, PA worked because what I dredged up in my imagination was really scary. And for the following 2 nights at home, it still did it's trick. Now this kind of film really relies on what the viewer brings to it. And you are right, unfortunately the promotion and media hype can be over the top
I saw it opening night roughly 90% of the audience was really scared. Shrieking, Jumping. Yelling. Talking back to the screen and on the edge of their seat, it was a rollercoaster ride. I have NEVER experienced that in a movie theater before during a "horror" film.
Every night when the characters went to bed, you could hear a pin drop. That was what worked, the expectation, the wait, the buildup. But once again, it's what the audience brought to the table. Sure, if ANY person or movie claims, "This is the SCARIEST movie ever!" you could easily go in with the attitude of "yeah? Let's see!" and invariably be disappointed. I saw that happen firsthand in "The Exorcist: The version you've never seen" when it was released and billed on the poster as "The scariest movie ever!" I saw it, same great spooky film as ever but there were a bunch of high school kids making fun of it the whole time and when it was over said, "THAT was the scariest film ever? That sucked!" Did it suck? No.
What would make PA scarier? Seeing the demon? imho that would ruin it. Anyways, hopefully the wake up call to Hollywood was that a tiny low budget, no star cast, no cgi, no gore, no nudity little film got better reviews and made MUCH more $ than the latest SAW, HOSTEL, Zombie, torture porn POS that Hollywood has been cranking out for years.
Is PA a classic? No. But for what it was, it did a damn good job and shook things up.
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One of the worst horror movies ever. But like I said before, the marketing team for that movie did a great job. Fooled everyone into thinking it was something special. 
