Provides some scares, but nothing original

Rating: 7/10 (30 October 2012)

If you moved "The Blair Witch Project" from the woods into a house, and eliminated Joshua Leonard from the movie entirely, you would have this film. Basically, this movie is a lot of noises off camera, dark lighting and shadows, and a bunch of creepy standing around by the characters. This film, much like Blair Witch, plays the "fear of the unknown" card, and plays it well. By the end of the film, they could have had a clown doll jump out and get a reaction from the viewer. Wait...that was already done. BTW...don't these people ever have to go to work?
Paranormal Activity is certainly worth at least one viewing, especially around Halloween. With the exception of some potty mouth and one blood stain, there is certainly nothing that would make the viewer uncomfortable. As stated earlier, the use of smoke and mirrors is used to elicit scares from it's audience. It certainly is not a CGI bloodbath.