Deserves an Oscar for hype

Rating: 1/10 (29 October 2009)

Sorry to say I believed the hype and blew 8 bucks. I shoulda gone to the cinema next door and seen THis Is It with Jacko. Paranormal Activity was an absolute piece of crap... predictable, slow, slow, and slow. The scariest thing about this movie is that so many people have bought the hype and gone to see it. I've seen student films that are much better. My fault - I'm too trusting in reviews. What are these people smoking? I've seen scary movies before, all the way from the original The Blob to Blair Witch. Scary should be an emotional reaction, a complete involvement with the characters, the story, the premise. And every movie needs a story and a premise, not a one line summary like "this couple is in a house, the guy's a geek about video cameras, and his girl friend is possessed." Out of the 90 minutes, 80 of it seemed like they were sleeping, as I was. There should be federal guidelines on how much you can fool the public, kind of like the financial meltdown when rules were broken and ignored. If that were the case, everyone who worked on the publicity for this film would be doing time.