A lacking experience

Rating: 5/10 (1 November 2009)

(minor spoiler in concern to the nature of the ending)
Digged-up from indie-horror is the film Paranormal Activity. Follow a couple who are plagued by a demonic presence and an ever-present camera.
This is, by far, one of the most deceitful little horror films of the twitter-era. Promising scares and mind-bending horror, you are instead served with atypical ghoul pranks and inter-relationship bickering throughout a majority of the film.
While the director does what he can to keep you in the mind-set that this is real, the mockumentary eventually falls flat near the end, especially with the husband's lax response to ever-increasingly unsettling events.
This isn't to say the film is without some tension and suspense alongside perhaps a couple cheap scares. The otherwise invisible demon seems to have a tangible and disturbing presence in the second half of the film, but ultimately the violent ending just didn't justify the dull hour or more of door swinging, wall-banging, possessed sleep-walking and silly arguments between the tormented couple.
At the least, I don't recommend wasting $9 seeing it in theater. Perhaps a cheap rental at best.