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  • LockoutLockout I am still searching Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The Plain Girl From The Low-Quality American Remake Of The Office wrote: »
    Lockout wrote: »
    Robos A Go Go wrote: »
    Zoel wrote: »
    the end was the least scary part of this movie

    I mean
    They already told you both characters are dead in frame 1 of the movie when Paramount thanks the families for letting them use the film. It's not like something terrible was happening to the guy once Micah ran downstairs and suddenly everything went silent; he was dead for like 45 seconds and you're just waiting for the shoe to drop-- staring at a empty room for added effect, and before that scene you already knew katie was possessed as all fuck.

    Yeah, I wasn't surprised to find out that that scene was added in at the request of the studio or whatever.

    Steven Spielberg, apparently.

    You know that the story is not real right?

    Or it could be

    I mean, it's on IMDb and everything

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The Plain Girl From The Low-Quality American Remake Of The Office wrote: »
    Lockout wrote: »
    Robos A Go Go wrote: »
    Zoel wrote: »
    the end was the least scary part of this movie

    I mean
    They already told you both characters are dead in frame 1 of the movie when Paramount thanks the families for letting them use the film. It's not like something terrible was happening to the guy once Micah ran downstairs and suddenly everything went silent; he was dead for like 45 seconds and you're just waiting for the shoe to drop-- staring at a empty room for added effect, and before that scene you already knew katie was possessed as all fuck.

    Yeah, I wasn't surprised to find out that that scene was added in at the request of the studio or whatever.

    Steven Spielberg, apparently.

    You know that the story is not real right?

    what about the word characters don't you understand

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    trentsteel wrote: »
    I thought Trick r' Treat was a pretty solid little movie. I loves stuff with more than one story that tie into each other in little ways.

    anthology movies are really cool but you don't see many of them. And most of the ones I've seen don't have as much attention to detail with interconnecting stories a Trick r' Treat did.

    But I would suggest checking out The Twilight Zone movie if you haven't seen it

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Lockout wrote: »
    The Plain Girl From The Low-Quality American Remake Of The Office wrote: »
    Lockout wrote: »
    Robos A Go Go wrote: »
    Zoel wrote: »
    the end was the least scary part of this movie

    I mean
    They already told you both characters are dead in frame 1 of the movie when Paramount thanks the families for letting them use the film. It's not like something terrible was happening to the guy once Micah ran downstairs and suddenly everything went silent; he was dead for like 45 seconds and you're just waiting for the shoe to drop-- staring at a empty room for added effect, and before that scene you already knew katie was possessed as all fuck.

    Yeah, I wasn't surprised to find out that that scene was added in at the request of the studio or whatever.

    Steven Spielberg, apparently.

    You know that the story is not real right?

    Or it could be

    I mean, it's on IMDb and everything

    He meant the story of the movie

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Zoel wrote: »
    The Plain Girl From The Low-Quality American Remake Of The Office wrote: »
    Lockout wrote: »
    Robos A Go Go wrote: »
    Zoel wrote: »
    the end was the least scary part of this movie

    I mean
    They already told you both characters are dead in frame 1 of the movie when Paramount thanks the families for letting them use the film. It's not like something terrible was happening to the guy once Micah ran downstairs and suddenly everything went silent; he was dead for like 45 seconds and you're just waiting for the shoe to drop-- staring at a empty room for added effect, and before that scene you already knew katie was possessed as all fuck.

    Yeah, I wasn't surprised to find out that that scene was added in at the request of the studio or whatever.

    Steven Spielberg, apparently.

    You know that the story is not real right?

    what about the word characters don't you understand

    He was referring to the story about Spielberg having the ending changed, I think.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Vater5B wrote: »
    So I just hit up Google to see what the original ending was, and I can honestly say it is twenty times better and probably would have put the film in a much more positive light.

    ORIGINAL ENDING SPOILER:
    This ending initially repeats what we see in the other two endings. We watch through the camera as the couple sleep. Then suddenly Kate sits straight up, gets out of bed, walks over to Micah and stands over him staring at him for a few hours. Then she walks out of the bedroom and we hear her going downstairs. After a few minutes tick off the clock, we hear Kate screaming. Micah wakes up, screams to Kate that he is coming to help her, and he darts out of the room. For the next few minutes you just see an empty bedroom with the ticking clock and you hear both Kate and Micah screaming and a lot of commotion like they are fighting. After a few minutes, the screaming stops and it is silent. After a minute or two of silence, you hear a loud stomping sound (like something very heavy is coming up the stairs).

    From here, the ending diverges: Kate walks into the bedroom covered in blood and holding a large butcher knife down at her side. She walks into the room very heavy and stiff-like. She walks right up to the camera so that the upper half of her body is in the shot (but she isn't staring into the camera or looking at you, she's sort of looking downward), and then she simply pulls up the knife and slashes her throat in one quick, graceful movement, and falls down on the ground. The camera keeps rolling so we just see an empty bedroom for a few seconds and then the camera shuts off and the movie ends.

    Seriously, why couldn't that have been it?



    certainly sounds better than what I've heard the real ending is

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  • Riggs BlitzkriegRiggs Blitzkrieg Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    http://www.horrorsquad.com/2009/10/11/so-what-was-paranormal-activitys-original-ending/

    The original ending
    : This time, Micah stays downstairs as Katie returns to the bedroom, covered in blood and now holding a knife. She proceeds to rock on the floor next to the bed for something like two days straight.* We hear a friend (the girl who offered that Katie stay at her place, I'm guessing) leave a message on their answering machine, wondering where they are. She later stops by, presumably finds Micah dead downstairs, screams and leaves. The police then show up later, with Katie only awakening from her catatonic state as they come up the stairs, with guns drawn. She's covered in blood, holding a knife and very confused as to what's going on, and so the officers proceed to fire on her. The title card then dedicates the film to the couple's memory.

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  • <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Robos A Go Go wrote: »
    Zoel wrote: »
    The Plain Girl From The Low-Quality American Remake Of The Office wrote: »
    Lockout wrote: »
    Robos A Go Go wrote: »
    Zoel wrote: »
    the end was the least scary part of this movie

    I mean
    They already told you both characters are dead in frame 1 of the movie when Paramount thanks the families for letting them use the film. It's not like something terrible was happening to the guy once Micah ran downstairs and suddenly everything went silent; he was dead for like 45 seconds and you're just waiting for the shoe to drop-- staring at a empty room for added effect, and before that scene you already knew katie was possessed as all fuck.

    Yeah, I wasn't surprised to find out that that scene was added in at the request of the studio or whatever.

    Steven Spielberg, apparently.

    You know that the story is not real right?

    what about the word characters don't you understand

    He was referring to the story about Spielberg having the ending changed, I think.

    I thought you were saying that it was based on a real event and Spielberg added stuff. Whatevs.

    <3 on
  • <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    also Katie has some rocking titties.

    I would want to grope her too if I was a demon.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    they're okay I guess

    would want to see sister for comparison if I was a demon

    Possible ugly sister haunting imo

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    However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The Plain Girl From The Low-Quality American Remake Of The Office wrote: »
    also Katie has some rocking titties.

    I would want to grope her too if I was a demon.

    Attractive women in horror films make it hard for me to be scared. When I was watching The Strangers, all I could think about was how good looking those serial killers probably were underneath those masks.

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  • GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Jesus fuck this movie is unsettling

    that scream

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I thought this movie was head and shoulders above more horror movies.
    Older movies like the exorcist, rosemarys baby and the like are scary... new movies like Saw and whatnot are terrible (this is opinion only mind you) in comparison to this.

    If you can empathize and put aside skepticism for 2 hours I think you'd take a lot more out of this movie.
    I mean seriously, right when Micah says "I can handle this." I would have been like "Hey pal, fuck you!"
    Honestly, dude had one terrible idea after another.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    2 hours? You can't put it away for one spoiler bub!

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    my girlfriend that likes movies such as this hated this movie. I, who do not find these types of movies scary anyway, nearly fell asleep.

    also
    the demon so had a foot fetish

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Jaded wrote: »
    I thought this movie was head and shoulders above more horror movies.
    Older movies like the exorcist, rosemarys baby and the like are scary... new movies like Saw and whatnot are terrible (this is opinion only mind you) in comparison to this.

    If you can empathize and put aside skepticism for 2 hours I think you'd take a lot more out of this movie.
    I mean seriously, right when Micah says "I can handle this." I would have been like "Hey pal, fuck you!"
    Honestly, dude had one terrible idea after another.

    Saw isn't meant to be scary, though

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  • happy cabbagehappy cabbage Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    This movie sucked. I saw it on friday and there were only like 4 scary parts. Those parts weren't even all that scary it was just they were so unexpected because the movie was dull and moved so slow, so when something happened it was like ohshit.

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  • Mr. ButtonsMr. Buttons Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Finding out about the original endings makes me wish they hadn't changed it up... my wife liked how it ended now, but seriously
    Her walking up the stairs and slicing her throat would have been a much better ending

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Burden of Proof wrote: »
    Jaded wrote: »
    I thought this movie was head and shoulders above more horror movies.
    Older movies like the exorcist, rosemarys baby and the like are scary... new movies like Saw and whatnot are terrible (this is opinion only mind you) in comparison to this.

    If you can empathize and put aside skepticism for 2 hours I think you'd take a lot more out of this movie.
    I mean seriously, right when Micah says "I can handle this." I would have been like "Hey pal, fuck you!"
    Honestly, dude had one terrible idea after another.

    Saw isn't meant to be scary, though

    Yeah, just trying to come up with drivel they classify as "horror" movies these days.
    Like music, the old movies are the better ones.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The boyfriend was an insufferable douchebag. And it was his fault that it progressed as far as it did.

    If they had just ignored the thing it probably would have went dormant again after a few months.

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    The boyfriend was an insufferable douchebag. And it was his fault that it progressed as far as it did.

    If they had just ignored the thing it probably would have went dormant again after a few months.

    This man here knows what's up.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I could understand that boyfriend's fascination and cockiness. If I witnessed paranormal phenomena, I'd want to test it too and would probably convince myself it posed no harm, which would then lead to me pressing my luck. He definitely should have become concerned much earlier, though. Still, even if he had it would have been too late.

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    forget this movie, I just saw Drag me to Hell.

    It was magnificent.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Also they should have called the ghostbusters much sooner

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  • <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    my friends and i agreed that the bitch is paranoid and crazy, and the dude should have dumped her a long time ago.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    she wears boxers to bed every night, too. just plain unacceptable

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    forget this movie, I just saw Drag me to Hell.

    It was magnificent.

    ... what
    ... tell me this is a joke.
    While not overly gorey or bloody this movie was horrible!
    Oh look, we are gonna throw the Lamia into this goat, then kill the goat, kkthxbye

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    jaded you just spoke ill of a Sam Raimi movie that didn't involve spiderman

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Jaded wrote: »
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    forget this movie, I just saw Drag me to Hell.

    It was magnificent.

    ... what
    ... tell me this is a joke.
    While not overly gorey or bloody this movie was horrible!
    Oh look, we are gonna throw the Lamia into this goat, then kill the goat, kkthxbye

    you understand that's exactly what it was trying to do, right?

    Have you never seen evil dead?

    Tasteticle on

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Yeah, it was a horror comedy.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The way his girlfriend cried, pleaded and begged him to stop doing things. And he just kept on truckin' being a bigger and bigger douchebag.

    If my wife was sincerely pleading me not to do something -- I would probably not do it.

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    Jaded wrote: »
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    forget this movie, I just saw Drag me to Hell.

    It was magnificent.

    ... what
    ... tell me this is a joke.
    While not overly gorey or bloody this movie was horrible!
    Oh look, we are gonna throw the Lamia into this goat, then kill the goat, kkthxbye

    you understand that's exactly what it was trying to do, right?

    Have you never seen evil dead?


    This puts a new perspective on things... I watched it expecting it to be a horror movie.
    -1 jaded
    +1 Tasteticle

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    You saw Sam Raimi's name on a horror film and expected it to be a serious horror?

    The only thing that was WRONG with Drag me to Hell was the lack of a Bruce Campbell cameo.

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    the only thing that I didn't like about the movie was a complete lack of Bruce Campbell.

    I mean, when that one guy got possessed and started doing this weird jig/tune in mid air, I couldn't see anyone but Bruce for that role.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    If Bruce had been the voice of the Lamia it would have been 100% awesome-sauce.

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  • JadedJaded Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    If Bruce had been the voice of the Lamia it would have been 100% awesome-sauce.

    Agreed!

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  • Red ZoneRed Zone Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    My brother is a religious guy and he swears that this kind of stuff happens all the time.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Red Zone wrote: »
    My brother is a religious guy and he swears that this kind of stuff happens all the time.

    Lots of people swear that lots of different things happen

    Curious though, how far does he go with this? Does he claim that a lot of everyday things are the work of demons, or does he just hold that cases of possession occur from time to time?

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  • Red ZoneRed Zone Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Well....being muslim I should believe possessed people....

    But the science in me is like, "dude just be havin mental problems"

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Oh hey, possession happens all the time? We should probably get some proof then, so we can validate all those religious texts that posit the existence of demons, thus setting the stage for a worldwide spiritual revolution. I'm surprised nobody has thought of this before!

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