Very Overrated "Blair Witch Project in a house"...

Rating: 4/10 (10 January 2010)

"Scariest Movie of all time", just one of the tag-lines that totally over-hyped this simple low budget movie. It immediately reminds you of "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield". Also filmed with a home camera that the people around it are aware of. "Blair Witch" set the standards for that one, although "The Last Broadcast" was a similar movie that was produced before the original "Blair Witch" but that was not a surprise hit, so not too many people know that movie. "Blair Witch" certainly had it's impact on some people because it was a new way of showing terror. When it was released on VHS and DVD in 1999, I owned a videostore and people who returned the movie sometimes asked me if it was real. (I'm not joking, some people actually thought it really happened). "Paranormal Activity" takes on the same path, except that this time it revolves around a haunting in a house. the ghost ,or what is later considered a demon, follows the woman, so it is not housebound. I watched the so-called ALTERNATE CUT (with the murder (?) and suicide) but besides that, nothing really happens here. Just one location with 2 people mostly. It gets boring and the story is not exciting or scary. The only scary thing is that it could be real, hauntings do seem to exist in real life. That is also what they try to sell to the audience. Worth a look, certainly because of all the fuzz, but do not expect too much..