Blog: "Horror Tip: Paranormal Activity"

[naturon]

Ah yes, the movie plays on some very primal fears in that sense, but that does not mean you have to create such an inept product to create an atmosphere like that. I find these camcorder horror movies to be so pathetic and desperate in their need to scare people that the filmmakers forget they are making a movie. I don't believe in anything supernatural whatsoever, and if I am going to see a movie affiliated with the paranormal then I really don't have anything to fear from it at all. I still like to see well made (not necessarily big budgeted) and well written horror movies. From what I have seen, Paranormal Activity is neither. I could have excused the simple set-up if it were competently made, and it is so not. This camera horror idea is extremely unrealistic and visually tedious to say the least. Insinuating that what you're watching is absolutely real (it's impossible to even think so) does not automatically make it scary, in fact I find good character development and clever writing goes a much longer way to making a movie scary than filming it with a 100$ handheld camera. Unless you're doing a Guinea Pig kind of thing where you're made to believe you're watching a snuff movie, what's the point? It's really not that hard to make a genuinely scary movie competently. If you have to sacrifice the overall quality of the movie just to make it a little scarier (ironically it backfires) then I don't see the point really. I got really bored with it so I stopped watching. Not a good movie in my opinion.