Occasionally effective and mildly creepy.

Rating: 6/10 (31 October 2009)

Katie and Micah are young,rising middle-class couple who share a two-story house in a San Diego.She's hearing strange noises.Her boyfriend wires up a new camcorder with night vision to record them,day and night,to see what kind of demonic entity haunts their house."Paranormal Activity" is far from being the scariest horror film ever made.I found "The Blair Witch Project" or "Rec" far more terrifying.There are some genuinely spooky moments,but the majority of the film is quite dull and uninvolving.The characters are obnoxious and the night-vision camera set in the bedroom captures one paranormal happening after another.Unfortunately the film lacks tension and excitement."Paranormal Activity" never lives up to the kind of tension it's supposed to create and the end is a cringing nod to every other movie in this subgenre.6 out of 10.