Many of you may be asking yourselves the very same question as im asking myself. "Why review these movies", well, the answer is clear. I do not like the whole "not knowing" scene with these movies, I can potentially save many peoples time from stopping themselves from watching such movies.
Though I have seen many horror genre films, i would say that I have also gained some sort of catharsis effect (meaning the graphical images and typical codes and conventions are not as effective as they should be), thus meaning, some of what I say could potentially be due to the bias side of me.
Paranormal activity 1
I did not watch this until number 2 was out for a while, after using social networks and hearings a wide range of people saying how scared they were from the film, it really hyped me up. I continued to think "wow, finally a good movie worth watching has arrived". The film follows a couple living in a massive house, it includes some of their history which involves completely invisible spirits who wish to rattle common household objects. After a while, the spirit takes control of the main character and she goes on to killing her husband. The police comes and shoot the now-murderer, therefore ending the movie. To me, there are clearly 2-3 jumpy unsuspecting parts though, the level of this is not too high, i'll class it as a raise of a left brow for about 3 seconds. Often social realism films are cool when performed correctly.
To me, Paranormal Activity 1 is the best out of the 3 films, you do not gain such a relationship to the characters and it just felt like im just watching another episode of Spongebob Squarepants.
Paranormal Activity 2
Number 2 wasn't anything interesting, after a while, i forgot what actually happened, though after watching a small segment, remembered again. It takes place in the past to the present, to the future. Nothing is necessarily wrong with this movie, though it was basically like watching number 1, the linear structure was very similar, the characters played the same roles (though their were few more characters playing smaller roles). Though towards the end, it actually suddenly gets better, the quiet house and the character from the first movie appears to kill.
Overall, this was the 2nd best film.
Paranormal Activity 3
Firstly, if you have not already, WATCH THE TRAILER!
cool right? This one actually battled between the second movie for being the second best with me. Though when i rewatched the trailer, i found that the movie itself did not even use clips from the movie. This in its self does not need explaining as to why the film was the 3rd worse.
I heard from people that Paranormal Activity 3 was possibly the scariest of them all, that as usual it was the best one out there. After watching the trailer, i thought this would be true. I heard on many social networks from many people explaining how they couldn't sleep. I watched it, and it is clear that those who say how scaried they were, clearly overreacted. There is one part in the film, where i knew something was going to happen, really i did, but i did not know exactly when. The scene where the babysitter watches the kitchen and everything drops, that was the probably most jumpy part, to which i raised TWO brows to the segment of the movie.
Poor film, poor quality. Im lacking to explain the film in detail as the film lacks its general purpose. The characters are unrealistic and as usual, there will be a 4th movie. Will this be worse? Obviously yes, though people will still go around saying how they couldn't sleep for days. Though, these movies are aimed towards teens/pre-teens I guess that would justify things.
not the best of movies, though no need to watch all of them, simply watch the first as it seems to be the best. Or watch the second if you dont want to watch the first. And if you dont want to watch either, simply watch the 3rd, though it sucks so bad, that you shouldnt watch it.
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