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• Thomas Noctor said...

  Posted on Nov 19 2009 06:52 I was slightly sceptical about this movie.How do u top The Blair Witch Project, Rec or The St Francisville Experiment? Easy watch this! Don't get me wrong I love those films but this aint just the scariest movie of the year, but of all time! Set in San Diego (with no shaky cameras and with phone signals in a housing estate), lives a couple who are tormented by Paranormal Activity! Thats all I'll say! People, don't listen to critics, they gave Drag Me To Hell, (a comedy) scariest movie of the decade? And Let The Right One In got 5 stars (really boring non scary fantasy drama, ABOUT KIDS) For horror junkies like me, see this! I seen it in New York, went down a treat! I cant wait until its released in Ireland, on November 25th 2009! Don't listen to the wusses!

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• Matthew McKinnon said...

  Posted on Nov 17 2009 20:47 Thought I might write a more succinct review for those who haven't the patience to wade through Usman Khawaja's pompous, turgid, pretentious rant...
  I was at one of the UK screenings on Fri.13th [mine was at the Ritzy, Brixton], and yes, the audience were restless, but that's because they were a bunch of tossers. A lot of people arrived late from the pub, a lot talked throughout the film, and none of them were in the frame of mind to take the film seriously. Lots of girly giggling and chat. A couple of mobiles went off. It was one of those audiences that puts you off going to the cinema for a long while.
  Anyway, the film: it's OK. Considering it was made at home for £11,000, it's not bad at all. The acting's pretty good [nice to see a female lead who isn't a vacant stick insect]. Basically, it's an amateur feature that's just about good enough to sell itself as a real movie, because of its lo-fi premise [unseen things are scary].
  You have to ask yourself what you like if you're considering going to see this: if you like the power of suggestion over the explicit, then this will give you a few good old-fashioned chills. It has some creepy moments and one shout-out-loud scene. But despite a similar sales campaign and reputation, it's not in the same league as Blair Witch [or classics like Ghostwatch, or The Stone Tape]. Those films had an eerie logic and precision, and sketched in genuinely disturbing back-stories which made the films' events all the more frightening. There's a stab at this in Paranormal Activity, but it feels shoehorned in, doesn't work out particularly well, and it leads to a disappointing climax that isn't really good enough.
  So: some good scares, but no masterpiece... and if you don't have an audience of cretins surrounding you, you should get a few goosebumps.
  3/5

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• usman khawaja said...

  Posted on Nov 14 2009 04:44 INVITING THE DEMON FOR A PARTY -
  Lady luck is a bizarrely ambiguous entity and that is the only thing that the makers of the shoddy -ripoff horror crap possess in abundance as for any cinematic quality ,this is the worst addition to an exhausted genre ,with the most poor technical attributes ever .
  An American couple move into a house and hear some queer activity and the moronic boyfriend decides to film all the activity with a video cam which flies off at every angle in every direction and all you hear is some thudding footsteps which always come punctually at a particular nocturnal time.
  So of course the house is haunted and yet they stay and sleep in the same bed without any love -making with the door ajar so the demon can feel truly invited to join them for a party .
  The girlfriend wants to leave but the moronic boyfriend wishes to interview the ghost on video and what follows is the most comic piece of horror cinema ever ,with not a single thrill to boot and vertiginous shots which induce nausea with the clumsy angular sequences and persistent ennui that will immerse you in a mockery of exorcism in a total scam .
  The acting is not even amateurish and the plot is non-existent with nothing to offer except inadvertent laughter and in the theatre you can hear people make some classic snide remarks about the couple .
  The actor was called some choice names and the main character is the bed where the senseless couple sleep in the haunted bedroom for 21 nights and the ghost is enamoured with the girl .
  The camera keeps whizzing while the girl keeps whining and the audience are bored to tears ,unless you want to have a good laugh which is provided in every other sequence in the guise of some pseudo-psychological mock horror which is totally lost on anyone with any neurons .
  The only thing that could have made this slightly interesting was if either the couple or the ghost indulged in some sexual innuendo but that was sadly not part of this script .
  I waited for the demon to smash the camera both in the movie and the one that was filming this blasphemy but he did not oblige and i wonder how this movie became the number one hit in usa -they are truly in economic and intellectual recession without any doubt .

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