A truly cunning stunt...

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2009)

...or, to be more accurate, how a very cheap and silly film was repackaged and pumped-up to fool an audience and make an absolute fortune.
"Paranormal Activity" is truly about as scary and believable as an episode of "Scooby Doo." Nothing more than a brutally cynical, major-league exercise in hype, marketing and ultimately a result of mass-audience gullibility for such things. Along with the plebian tendency to concur about the Emperor's New Clothes being everything they were led to believe.
Whatever people see in this "film" of any emotional or creative worth, I'm afraid I don't, and I'm going to stand up, point and shout: "But the Emperor hasn't got any clothes on!" Let's face it - old hat, badly done. Liked the string pulling the door closed though. Was that included as an in-joke do you think? A little ironic jab in the ribs?
To borrow a rhetorical slice of quippery from one John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten): "Ever been had? You 'ave now!"