Notes and Doodles on Paranormal Activity 3

1. Their house is really nice. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 floors, a garage, and the second bedroom's a loft. And their mom's what, 30? And she could afford it? Sweet.


2. My idea of the 80's in the U.S. is exaggerated, clearly. I hardly see big hair in the movie and feel weird about it, for one.


3. My mother-in-law is a mean old witch. Forrealz.



4. What they did with the bedsheet is nifty, and scary.


5. There's scaring people through suggestion, and then there's having an invisible force pull a kid by her hair.

6. Also, apparently, this movie is supposed to give context to the first two PA movies, which I haven't yet seen.

7. Those girls grow up to be cheesy, the kind of cheesy you get in a variety show.

8. Maybe I'll give this movie a 6/10 because the scary parts are really actually scary.

Paranormal Activity

Girl haunted by a demonic something since she was young and now has followed her in her new house with her macho shit boyfriend. The boyfriend keeps on playing with his video camera and saying stuff like "Nobody messes with my girlfriend" and "Fuck you demon thing." This leads to more bad things for the girl. The basic problem of the movie is not really the haunting, but the girl picking an asshole for a boyfriend. Also, the impromptu lines were really, really horrible.

It's The Exorcist meets The Blair Witch Project, except less scary and less dizzying.

I got to watch two of the three endings. Both of which were really pathetic. Not that it didn't hold promise, it was just really something that'd make me go, "That's all there is? I've watched her boyfriend be an idiot for more than an hour and this is how the demon ends it?"

5/10