I watched this with a few friends a couple of weeks ago. While watching the movie in a dark cinema, I successfully finished off two pancakes topped with syrup, ice cream, walnuts and banana. (I finished work late, so I missed dinner and had to have my order doggy-bagged.) Yeah.
About five seconds after the end of the movie, everyone in the cinema burst out laughing. Simultaneously. At most, there were two dozen of us in there. Amusingly, on the way out, I think I discovered where the crew got the 'demon noise' from - the escalator outside the cinema sounded exactly the same (this being at about 11.30pm when the shopping centre was closed and it was just my friends and me).
Even though I thought the movie was, overall, a waste of my precious $10.50, the thought of something lurking in the dark freaked me out for about a week. But I have a history of night terrors and a fear of the dark, so fair enough.
You ate pancakes and ice cream in a theater? I'm reminded of the Boondocks episode where they smuggle in meat loaf and stuff. I guess that actually happens.
Well, it was all boxed up, and I was so hungry (I was working 4-9 that day and hadn't had a proper lunch). I mean, Pancake Parlour had given me a serviette as well as plastic cutlery. What was I supposed to do, watch a horror movie on an empty stomach?
It got a bit difficult during the bedroom scenes, but during the daytime scenes, it wasn't too hard to eat. One of my friends sitting next to me said that I helped alleviate his boredom at some points in the movie, so I guess that's something.
I didn't even know until after the movie that this was a sequel/prequel from the first. I figured it was just a different story.
These kind of movies really fuck with me. Gore fest vs creepy as hell...creepy as hell always gets to me. I got a free copy of the first one from getting my tickets online. I MIGHT watch it tomorrow AFTERNOON. Might.
because she's attacking you the audience omigod that's so scary ._.
was really lame. Is there a repeat of that?
Original ending to the first movie was the better one. It really accentuated that feeling of helplessness.
Weren't there 3 different endings to the original one? I never watched them but I read about them, and I think they should have stuck with the one where
because she's attacking you the audience omigod that's so scary ._.
was really lame. Is there a repeat of that?
Original ending to the first movie was the better one. It really accentuated that feeling of helplessness.
Weren't there 3 different endings to the original one? I never watched them but I read about them, and I think they should have stuck with the one where
she cuts her throat.
That was one of them. The one that I liked was...
The last night stuff happens, she gets up, watches him sleep for hours, goes downstairs, screams. He goes down, sounds of a struggle, then there's thumping that gets louder as she comes back upstairs. I think she's holding a knife, but I don't remember. She stands by the bed for a while, then sits down, and just starts to rock back and forth.
Fastforward.
Morning comes, she's still rocking, phone rings. Goes to answerphone. It's her friend, she says she's coming over.
Fastforward.
Banging at the door, door is forced open, friend comes in and starts the 'Hello?' routine. Pause. Screams. More screams. Friend leaves in a hurry.
Fastforward.
Police arrive, do the 'Police, nobody move' routine. You hear them discover the boyfriend's body, then slowly come upstairs. They see her in the bedroom, and are all 'are you okay, miss?' But she's still rocking back and forth. She then suddenly comes to as one policeman starts to investigate the other rooms, while the other is still talking to her. She's all 'What? What?' and pushes herself to her feet, before walking towards the policemen. She may have still been holding a knife at this point, I honestly don't remember. A door slams behind them (the door to the closet and attic), and one policeman loses his nerve, and shoots her. End.
Probably going to see this before it leaves theaters, because the first one scared the shit out of me.
I'm so tired (not necessarily this board) of all the horror movie posturing. I get it. Nothing scares you. You know its a movie. You're too tough and a door slamming just makes you laugh at the shitty movie.
Why are you there, then?
Jump scares may be "cheap", but I'm paying $11 to be scared by jump scares. So I'm going to get scared. Just like hot sauces, I don't get the idea of going to horror movies to say how not scared you are or how hot a hot sauce you can take. Stop the dickwaving and just enjoy it.
Again, not directing this at anyone here, but I'm just tired of reading shit that's like "psshhh this movie isnt scary and anybody who is scared when something jumps out is a pussy."
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a good scary/horror film. Paranormal Activity got plenty of jumps out of me - can't help it really when there's something fast and unexpected happening. There were parts of the movie that I genuinely felt nervous because I knew something was going to happen.
But to me, at least, there's a difference between being shocked and being genuinely scared or terrified. The reason I bring up The Shining is for two reasons - one, because it's been rerunning on AMC a lot this month - two, I feel it is an absolutely terrifying movie, for way more reasons that I can list. The atmosphere, the music, the story, the scares, the amazing performances by the all the actors especially Jack Nicholson; I could go on, but why bother?
Paranormal Activity is good for what it is - an entertaining, scary jumpfest. But that's all it is. People aren't going to be talking about this movie 5-10 years from now, unlike The Shining which still gets praise today, 30 years after it's initial release. Personally, I'd pay good money to see a digitally remastered version in theaters, but that's just me.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a good scary/horror film. Paranormal Activity got plenty of jumps out of me - can't help it really when there's something fast and unexpected happening. There were parts of the movie that I genuinely felt nervous because I knew something was going to happen.
But to me, at least, there's a difference between being shocked and being genuinely scared or terrified. The reason I bring up The Shining is for two reasons - one, because it's been rerunning on AMC a lot this month - two, I feel it is an absolutely terrifying movie, for way more reasons that I can list. The atmosphere, the music, the story, the scares, the amazing performances by the all the actors especially Jack Nicholson; I could go on, but why bother?
Paranormal Activity is good for what it is - an entertaining, scary jumpfest. But that's all it is. People aren't going to be talking about this movie 5-10 years from now, unlike The Shining which still gets praise today, 30 years after it's initial release. Personally, I'd pay good money to see a digitally remastered version in theaters, but that's just me.
I absolutely agree with all of your sentiments, and as I said, I wasn't totally talking about people here. I love horror movies and spent a good deal of my college career studying them.
Like you said, Paranormal Activity is good for what it is, and that's all I'm asking. I just hate the constant barrage of "this movie sucks and is for pussies because its not scary" dick-waggery that surrounds movies like this. I went to the Universal Halloween Horror Nights this year with a bunch of friends. One of the people I went with spent the ENTIRE time talking about how she wasn't afraid, and would posture when Jason or Freddy would jump out from behind a wall and everyone would scream. She'd get in their face or say something snide. About halfway through I wanted to ask her why she even bothered coming. I get it, you're tough. Move on.
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Probably going to see this before it leaves theaters, because the first one scared the shit out of me.
I'm so tired (not necessarily this board) of all the horror movie posturing. I get it. Nothing scares you. You know its a movie. You're too tough and a door slamming just makes you laugh at the shitty movie.
Paranormal Activity creeped me out, Blair Witch kept me from sleeping well for two days, and The Ring made me legitimately terrified of my television for a good six months.
I freely admit I am a big giant pussy.
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Probably going to see this before it leaves theaters, because the first one scared the shit out of me.
I'm so tired (not necessarily this board) of all the horror movie posturing. I get it. Nothing scares you. You know its a movie. You're too tough and a door slamming just makes you laugh at the shitty movie.
Paranormal Activity creeped me out, Blair Witch kept me from sleeping well for two days, and The Ring made me legitimately terrified of my television for a good six months.
I freely admit I am a big giant pussy.
The Ring freaked me out, too. I wasn't afraid of TVs but my telephone, especially when I got a call from an unknown number.
I didn't find the Ring too frightening but it did weird me out quite a bit. The first time I saw Blair Witch was on FX with commercials, which kills the mood. A lot of horror is at its best in a dark unfamiliar theater.
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The Ring freaked me out, too. I wasn't afraid of TVs but my telephone, especially when I got a call from an unknown number.
If I ever learn your number, I am totally going to call you and say "SEVEN DAYSSSSSS" and then hang up.
And then on the seventh day I'll have Maddie dress up like Samara and show up outside your house.
It'll be hilarious! Except for the part where you have a fear-induced stroke and die. That part will probably be less hilarious.
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I didn't find the Ring too frightening but it did weird me out quite a bit. The first time I saw Blair Witch was on FX with commercials, which kills the mood. A lot of horror is at its best in a dark unfamiliar theater.
Man, seriously? Did they bleep out all the profanity, too?
Watching good horror on TV with commercials and made-for-TV editing seems so pointless. May as well watch porn with all the sex scenes removed.
Being a giant pussy is awesome. If I'm going to a comedy, I want to laugh. If I'm going to a horror flick, I want to be a huge pussy and jump constantly.
Hi-5!
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I went on my first date with my then-girlfriend to see Paranormal Activity. I decided to sleep on the couch at her place that night (we weren't at the :winky: part of our relationship yet) a few blocks from my college campus.
I lied awake on the couch listening to the footsteps upstairs for a good forty-five minutes before finally starting to nod off. Then her DVR kicked in. The whirring startled me upright. I stood up, folded the sheets and ran home as fast as I could. I called her halfway to let her know that I had to leave her door unlocked because it was a deadbolt and didn't have a key.
The Ring freaked me out, too. I wasn't afraid of TVs but my telephone, especially when I got a call from an unknown number.
If I ever learn your number, I am totally going to call you and say "SEVEN DAYSSSSSS" and then hang up.
And then on the seventh day I'll have Maddie dress up like Samara and show up outside your house.
It'll be hilarious! Except for the part where you have a fear-induced stroke and die. That part will probably be less hilarious.
My brother tried to do this to me when he got a new cel phone a few years back and was calling me to tell me the new number. I kicked him squarely in the junk the next day.
The Ring freaked me out, too. I wasn't afraid of TVs but my telephone, especially when I got a call from an unknown number.
If I ever learn your number, I am totally going to call you and say "SEVEN DAYSSSSSS" and then hang up.
And then on the seventh day I'll have Maddie dress up like Samara and show up outside your house.
It'll be hilarious! Except for the part where you have a fear-induced stroke and die. That part will probably be less hilarious.
My brother tried to do this to me when he got a new cel phone a few years back and was calling me to tell me the new number. I kicked him squarely in the junk the next day.
... not really.
While watching it, my dad asked me what would happen if you had 56k modem and were online when watching the tape.
I had one of those tough guy types sitting behind me during the movie. I wanted to smack him during and after the movie. In a completely silent theater, who taps their fucking toes? And then after the movie he is like, "That wasn't scary."
Oh well. Some people have huge dicks.
Me? Fuck PA2 and The Grudge. I was traumatized by The Grudge. PA2 didn't do it as bad, but it still will sit with me for some time.
Being drug into the fucking basement? FUCK. THAT. I had a fear of my basement ever since I was little (we used to have a dear head down there). These movies are not helping my fear of the basement.
After watching the Ring, my then-girlfriend jumped out of a doorway at with me with her long, dark hair in front of her face and scared the hell out of me. Catch was, we'd just taken a shower (so of course her hair was wet) and I was walking around the apartment nekkid; I almost flew out a 7th floor window to my death below with my bare ass out.
I remember a lot of tension relief in the first film, though. Micah was pretty much one big punchline, and even after things became "serious," you'd still have extended breaks for talking, deliberation, and exposition.
Compare that to Blair Witch, where they spend the entire film lost and their desperation and confusion build steadily and without pause.
The Ring freaked me out, too. I wasn't afraid of TVs but my telephone, especially when I got a call from an unknown number.
If I ever learn your number, I am totally going to call you and say "SEVEN DAYSSSSSS" and then hang up.
And then on the seventh day I'll have Maddie dress up like Samara and show up outside your house.
It'll be hilarious! Except for the part where you have a fear-induced stroke and die. That part will probably be less hilarious.
My brother tried to do this to me when he got a new cel phone a few years back and was calling me to tell me the new number. I kicked him squarely in the junk the next day.
... not really.
A few weeks back I woke up in the middle of the night to my son crying, then I hear some thump-thumping wandering off... somewhere. I look in his bedroom; not there. Go into the living room, and he's standing in the corner, facing the wall, totally Blair Witch style. Dead quiet.
I consider myself the best daddy ever for not saying Fuck It, scrambling back into my bed and hiding under the covers until daybreak.
(Best I could tell, he had a nightmare and then wandered off in a half-sleeping stupor until he ran into a wall and then went back to sleep on his feet.)
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I remember a lot of tension relief in the first film, though. Micah was pretty much one big punchline, and even after things became "serious," you'd still have extended breaks for talking, deliberation, and exposition.
Compare that to Blair Witch, where they spend the entire film lost and their desperation and confusion build steadily and without pause.
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About five seconds after the end of the movie, everyone in the cinema burst out laughing. Simultaneously. At most, there were two dozen of us in there. Amusingly, on the way out, I think I discovered where the crew got the 'demon noise' from - the escalator outside the cinema sounded exactly the same (this being at about 11.30pm when the shopping centre was closed and it was just my friends and me).
Even though I thought the movie was, overall, a waste of my precious $10.50, the thought of something lurking in the dark freaked me out for about a week. But I have a history of night terrors and a fear of the dark, so fair enough.
It got a bit difficult during the bedroom scenes, but during the daytime scenes, it wasn't too hard to eat. One of my friends sitting next to me said that I helped alleviate his boredom at some points in the movie, so I guess that's something.
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Not as good as the first one in my opinion. It had some creepy parts, but the feeling of helplessness from the first one was missing.
The original had an atmosphere of desperation that made it much creepier in my opinion.
Also, the ties between the two felt very clumsy, and it made me wish it had a different basis.
Worth seeing if you liked the original in my opinion.
These kind of movies really fuck with me. Gore fest vs creepy as hell...creepy as hell always gets to me. I got a free copy of the first one from getting my tickets online. I MIGHT watch it tomorrow AFTERNOON. Might.
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PA2 feels like something I could actually watch more than once, while PA just falls completely flat on the second viewing
Baby in the road, baby at the bottom of the pool, dog barking at the bathroom, etc. God damn. Fucking false advertising.
The ending was too douche ex machina for me. It was like 30 seconds long and only left you unsatisfied.
I'm going to pirate it ASAP and watch the missing shit, fuck waiting for the blu ray.
And these movies are so fucking cheap to make there better be a part 3 in no more than a year.
Original ending to the first movie was the better one. It really accentuated that feeling of helplessness.
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Uh. No?
Also, no.
Seriously, what the fuck!?
Weren't there 3 different endings to the original one? I never watched them but I read about them, and I think they should have stuck with the one where
That was one of them. The one that I liked was...
Fastforward.
Morning comes, she's still rocking, phone rings. Goes to answerphone. It's her friend, she says she's coming over.
Fastforward.
Banging at the door, door is forced open, friend comes in and starts the 'Hello?' routine. Pause. Screams. More screams. Friend leaves in a hurry.
Fastforward.
Police arrive, do the 'Police, nobody move' routine. You hear them discover the boyfriend's body, then slowly come upstairs. They see her in the bedroom, and are all 'are you okay, miss?' But she's still rocking back and forth. She then suddenly comes to as one policeman starts to investigate the other rooms, while the other is still talking to her. She's all 'What? What?' and pushes herself to her feet, before walking towards the policemen. She may have still been holding a knife at this point, I honestly don't remember. A door slams behind them (the door to the closet and attic), and one policeman loses his nerve, and shoots her. End.
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I'm so tired (not necessarily this board) of all the horror movie posturing. I get it. Nothing scares you. You know its a movie. You're too tough and a door slamming just makes you laugh at the shitty movie.
Why are you there, then?
Jump scares may be "cheap", but I'm paying $11 to be scared by jump scares. So I'm going to get scared. Just like hot sauces, I don't get the idea of going to horror movies to say how not scared you are or how hot a hot sauce you can take. Stop the dickwaving and just enjoy it.
Again, not directing this at anyone here, but I'm just tired of reading shit that's like "psshhh this movie isnt scary and anybody who is scared when something jumps out is a pussy."
But to me, at least, there's a difference between being shocked and being genuinely scared or terrified. The reason I bring up The Shining is for two reasons - one, because it's been rerunning on AMC a lot this month - two, I feel it is an absolutely terrifying movie, for way more reasons that I can list. The atmosphere, the music, the story, the scares, the amazing performances by the all the actors especially Jack Nicholson; I could go on, but why bother?
Paranormal Activity is good for what it is - an entertaining, scary jumpfest. But that's all it is. People aren't going to be talking about this movie 5-10 years from now, unlike The Shining which still gets praise today, 30 years after it's initial release. Personally, I'd pay good money to see a digitally remastered version in theaters, but that's just me.
I absolutely agree with all of your sentiments, and as I said, I wasn't totally talking about people here. I love horror movies and spent a good deal of my college career studying them.
Like you said, Paranormal Activity is good for what it is, and that's all I'm asking. I just hate the constant barrage of "this movie sucks and is for pussies because its not scary" dick-waggery that surrounds movies like this. I went to the Universal Halloween Horror Nights this year with a bunch of friends. One of the people I went with spent the ENTIRE time talking about how she wasn't afraid, and would posture when Jason or Freddy would jump out from behind a wall and everyone would scream. She'd get in their face or say something snide. About halfway through I wanted to ask her why she even bothered coming. I get it, you're tough. Move on.
Paranormal Activity creeped me out, Blair Witch kept me from sleeping well for two days, and The Ring made me legitimately terrified of my television for a good six months.
I freely admit I am a big giant pussy.
The Ring freaked me out, too. I wasn't afraid of TVs but my telephone, especially when I got a call from an unknown number.
Being a giant pussy is awesome. If I'm going to a comedy, I want to laugh. If I'm going to a horror flick, I want to be a huge pussy and jump constantly.
If I ever learn your number, I am totally going to call you and say "SEVEN DAYSSSSSS" and then hang up.
And then on the seventh day I'll have Maddie dress up like Samara and show up outside your house.
It'll be hilarious! Except for the part where you have a fear-induced stroke and die. That part will probably be less hilarious.
Man, seriously? Did they bleep out all the profanity, too?
Watching good horror on TV with commercials and made-for-TV editing seems so pointless. May as well watch porn with all the sex scenes removed.
Hi-5!
I lied awake on the couch listening to the footsteps upstairs for a good forty-five minutes before finally starting to nod off. Then her DVR kicked in. The whirring startled me upright. I stood up, folded the sheets and ran home as fast as I could. I called her halfway to let her know that I had to leave her door unlocked because it was a deadbolt and didn't have a key.
She was so confused.
I don't know why she ever called me again.
That movie scared the piss out of me
I am also a pussy
My brother tried to do this to me when he got a new cel phone a few years back and was calling me to tell me the new number. I kicked him squarely in the junk the next day.
... not really.
While watching it, my dad asked me what would happen if you had 56k modem and were online when watching the tape.
"Would she IM you? 'SEVEN DAYS 8-)'"
It kind of ruined the rest of the movie.
Oh well. Some people have huge dicks.
Me? Fuck PA2 and The Grudge. I was traumatized by The Grudge. PA2 didn't do it as bad, but it still will sit with me for some time.
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The Grudge however, scared the fuck out of me. PA scared me pretty good, too, but not nearly as much as The Grudge.
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Compare that to Blair Witch, where they spend the entire film lost and their desperation and confusion build steadily and without pause.
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A few weeks back I woke up in the middle of the night to my son crying, then I hear some thump-thumping wandering off... somewhere. I look in his bedroom; not there. Go into the living room, and he's standing in the corner, facing the wall, totally Blair Witch style. Dead quiet.
I consider myself the best daddy ever for not saying Fuck It, scrambling back into my bed and hiding under the covers until daybreak.
(Best I could tell, he had a nightmare and then wandered off in a half-sleeping stupor until he ran into a wall and then went back to sleep on his feet.)
Yeah but Blair Witch was awful