Creepy and unsettling but it should "affect" anyone.

Rating: 7/10 (3 January 2010)

Oh! I'm having a time travel to the past! I've read many comments that were written 10 years ago when "The Blair Witch Project" came out. I'll try to be as objective as possible and not compare both films.
"Paranormal Activity" succeeds in generating a sub-conscious fear in the audience by giving details such as demons, ghosts. Then, it executes the premise of "supernatural" events via spooky sounds, creepy images (bed sheets raising, foot prints, devil voices, doors opening, the attic, the photography, somnambulism, crashing portraits, physical violence involving getting dragged, and more).
The visual fear generated by the taped material doesn't leaves much for your imagination and that's where I think the movie fails. I mean, it doesn't puts to work your imagination. Your capacity to generate fear is limited because everything is showed in detail. It's OK if you are lazy :).
Another good aspect was having the devilish entity treated as "someone" rather than just a force. It was following the couple, placing hints on them, making physical contact, creeping them out, and well, you know, the ending.
The demonic references were very creepy. I dug the whole explanation in the books, the internet, and specially the scary drawings! Brrr. Also, the paranormal professor or whatever he was added a touch of realism and I wanted to see more of him. The demon expert was necessary but unfortunately, he didn't show up.
At some points I thought about many other Horror films that possibly inspired this movie. "The Entity" is the first that comes to my mind. That was good because films such as these that tend to generate a supposed reality; should be backed up by Horror elements that worked positively in other movies.
The ending was a let down and demonstrated that sometimes it's not positive to give what the audience wants; and that's a "shocking" last momento ending.
Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat are decent actors and I believed their on screen chemistry. They felt like a real couple. Oh and Katie was very sexy, what a pair of legs. She's not fat, get it, she's just a normal girl with bones. As if many of her haters had thin and sexy figures.