Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity is a horror movie posed as a documentary. Now, documentaries can be very interesting and educational. However, this fake documentary is a disgrace to the horror genre. I had seen all the previews and debated about going to view the movie. After being talked into going, I was very disappointed. Minus the three or four small events, the entire movie is nothing but watching security videos where there was no scary paranormal activity. These handful of events didn’t occur until the later part of the movie. This caused me, and I’m sure many others, to lose interest before the movie even got started. I strive for the thrill of the climax in movies. Paranormal Activity 2 didn’t have much of a climax. This was also a very aggravating aspect of this movie. Now, to talk about the few paranormal events that actually took place. First, there should have been lots more of the activity itself, and less of the uneventful scenes in the film. I did take notice to the occasional light flicker. Light flicker aren’t intriguing to audiences that enjoy horror movies. Honestly, the light flicker is an elementary effect to startle young kids. I just want to get the point across that this movie doesn’t live up to its standards. There was one scene where something paranormal happened then a way too long wait until the next event. I will agree that the later part of the movie where all, and I mean all, of the paranormal phenomenon occurred was interesting and could have been unexpected. Like every other movie playing right now, the best scenes are in the previews, which makes it movie more predictable. How everyone thinks this movie is terrifying, I will never understand. The very end is the only point where anything could be remotely scary. The end of the movie is not the entire film! Over half the movie was boring and irrelevant. By the first twenty minutes we know the house set up and where each character sleeps. Not too much later we discovered the basement was the spot where the spirit/demon/evil thing stayed. This left the entire middle of the movie dead. With nothing keeping your attention the film becomes boring. Like I have said multiple times, this movie is a disappointment. It is not interesting not is it an overall startling film. It is aggravating and annoying if anything. I’d probably say it’s more annoying, because it takes so long to get any type of paranormal events to occur. In personal opinion, I don’t consider “Paranormal Activity” a horror movie. It is more like just a bad idea of a movie that is popular due to the stupidity of society.