Killed by hype, slow, but Haunting, mysterious and very scary!

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2010)

Paranormal Activity under the influence of Cabin Fever. The Amityville horror for the Youtube generation. If it weren't for the hype, this wouldn't stand out to be a great ghost haunting movie, but everyone is expecting the 'scariest movie of all time'. Unlike a lot of people, i did like this movie. This is a rare event in horror when i actually cared for the characters involved. Why? Because we get 2/3 of the running time jam packed with character development. It's like a slasher movie, we now no our character now we just want to see them get slaughtered, or in this case, haunted. Although the movie maintain interesting, it does take way to long to get into the big scares. They director would tease us with a few door slams, building tension and then cutting back to broard daylight. Making us wonder why didn't they decide for it to be over the coarse of one night, instead of 3 weeks.
Paranormal Activity, believer or not, is pretty damn scary. We don't need Saw traps to make us tremble, because this is shocking, makes you jump and delivers on what you could ask for in a super natural horror. The greatest thing about Paranormal Activity is that you believe every single scratch, wail, bang and foot step. The realism is stunning. It's not just scares, but also there is mystery, that you feel really involved in and I thought was one of the movies strengths. One of it's weakness' is that the shocks are two infrequent, it's NOT the scariest movie of all time and there needed to be more. There were some touches that really made the movie scary, and I admired where the plot went, but the teasing does a grow a little to tedious, but in the end pays off.
Overall: Haunting, mysterious and very scary. But the pacing slows this movie right down and the hype prevents it from being the great movie that it should have been. Still, a Most Haunted wet dream.