A wild poltergoose chase

Rating: 2/10 (6 December 2009)

This tedious headache inducing 99 mins of stupefyingly boring nothingness apparently had some easily scared girls wincing in their seats. Oh please! PARANORMAL ACTIViTY is a very ordinary haunted house movie about a VERY ordinary couple who film spooky things when they sleep. AND......? Nothing....................... Please may I suggest a 2007 Australian film called LAKE MUNGO. Yes again Australia makes a film that gets copied in the US with lame results. It is about a family who believe they have a spirit in their haunted home and so they set up a digicam to record the noises and images that go bump and boo in the night.... sounds like PARANORMAL ACTIVITY? Yes it does and it is a far better film with seriously chilling exposures and a fantastic and real appearance of a very scary ghost....totally unlike PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. Even more irritating, is the fact that if you have seen the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY trailer, you have seen the punchline of the film so their marketing is spoiling the film before you see it. So uneventful is PARANORMAL ACTIVITY that when something does happen you have lost any tension felt. One minor moment that almost delivers is a good drag scene....but by then you are at the threshold of utter boredom. Find LAKE MUNGO and see the real thing.