a masterpiece of horror film-making!

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2010)

"Paranormal Activity" is one of those rare horror movies that can affect me to the point where I'm actually afraid to go to sleep. To me... if a film can do that, there's something very special about it. So I thought: what is it about PA that is so different from the rest of the so called "terror" that's released? And I came to the conclusion of... realism. This film is so real in how both Katie and Micah react to what is going on around them. The fact that there really was no script and it was mostly improvised blows me away. Most people complain how boring it is. Let me ask you something: in an average person's life, how interesting is a typical day? For the most part... not very. So this film is dead on with how these two normal people go about their normal routines and how, at night, the normal suddenly becomes PARAnormal. This film is a benchmark of horror and will go down as one of the scariest movies of all time (actually... it already has). 10/10