Good film, but overrated.

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2009)

I went to see paranormal activity with high expectations, the whole hype got me excited and I was looking forward to being scared to death; even the ticket lady said 'prepare to be scared' The film starts off pretty slow, which is nice because it gives you a bit of back story, but it seems to maintain a slow sort of escalation. The 'paranormal happenings' start off small scale and not very frightening, then they gradually build up to be more jumpy and scary; though I think this was a bad idea as it doesn't build up any form of a surprise and almost seems artificial...
The main problem I had with the film was that there was no real mystery and it was pretty short. I wanted to see a bit more from the psychic and perhaps a séance. It's not like they could have made it more interesting by making it longer, they pretty much put in everything without pushing it.
The acting was pretty good - which surprised me - as I thought with such a low budget the film would have had some cheap actors, but no, the acting was quite impressive. overall the film was pretty good, a decent flick and worth the money; I didn't find it scary and it didn't give me nightmares or keep me up all night with the light on, but maybe that was just me.