Dragging her to hell

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2009)

Yesterday I finally watched on the big screen this extremely successful low-budget horror movie. As a punk rocker towards horror films I was more than ready enjoy it, to like it yet not be scared at all... even before watching PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, that Steven Spielberg wanted to disappear his DVD of the movie after watching it and being scared as f*** is like "really? I mean, really?". So now that I have experienced what for many is the best of the genre in a long time is for me the same, I mean is still the "really? I mean, really?", coming after Spielberg's story.
I think the situation with my aunt can help me to let you know my feelings towards PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: she didn't want to watch the Spanish hit REC on the big screen back in 2008. I saw it by on the big screen and while it didn't totally shocked me, I was glad she didn't want to experience it on the big screen because I knew she would not had enjoyed it at all. And I know that's part of the fun, but frankly and since she is my aunt and since I saw how she suffered with PLANET TERROR, well you know. Yesterday I saw PARANORMAL ACTIVITY with my sis, cousin and my aunt. I was worried, or well I was ready to see after a certain shocking scene how my aunt was. "I only was a bit tense each time the hour appeared on the screen, but nothing more", those were her words after watching this movie. Really there are no hardcore moments in this movie, of course that lends to the disappointment of many (my sis and cousin hated it). I wasn't disappointed but certainly I wasn't expecting something to be totally scared by. I liked it as solid and fun entertainment but definitely I will not visit it again on DVD or Blu-Ray.
Basically here we don't have the main characters, Katie (Katie Featherston) and her boyfriend Micah (Micah Sloat), sort of unaware about the paranormal stuff, actually Katie knows and feels that she is being haunted by a ghost or something since she was a kid. So what we see here is thanks to Micah and his attempt to help his girlfriend by filming while they are sleeping to capture anything paranormal. It's really entertaining and, thanks to Micah, funny (Micah is at first totally skeptical, just playing around with the camera and wanting to film cool things) and it works in the regard of having a credible transformation of the main characters. We, or at least I, are never scared but we understand the hard times this couple is living (those scenes with Katie all tired of everything) and in that regard the movie works since we think in these characters as helpless young people, not quite like in DRAG ME TO HELL where we see the main character (also a young woman being haunted) at one point doing what the right stuff in order to get back to her normal life. Here Katie's only hopes are his boyfriend (who doesn't have a clue to end with the problem) and a demonologist (!) that we never see. But those scenes with the hour in the screen, those scenes that show what happens each night when Micah and Katie are sleeping are even fun to watch, not because are darn cool but just because the audience's reactions. So, I liked this movie, found it totally entertaining but just that.