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Aurjay:
Went and saw it today. Was definitely up to the hype. I enjoy movies that rely more on tension then graphics. I think i read somewhere this movie was made for 11,000 which is amazing to me.

Liz:
Oh man so it's actually scary? I am totes going to have to go watch this one... as soon as I find someone to go with me whose hand I can hold like a little baby.

Aurjay:
Not sure if it was scary or just really creepy. Something very unique to it was you knew something was going to happen you just didnt know what and when that thing did happen it just freaked you out.

TheFuriousWombat:
It is a pretty odd movie in that sense. I think if it was made any other way it wouldn't have been the least bit creepy. Somehow the mockumentary style infused it with a level of unease that wouldn't have come across if it was structured more traditionally. I've seen Blair Witch comparisons which are apt up to a point but this is actually much better and definitely scarier. Blair Witch played on the typical, innate fear of the woods at night. Pretty standard stuff. This movie, however, plays on something, literally, much closer to home. As long as you're not out lost in the woods at night, the fear Blair Witch plays on is absent. Paranormal Activity turns a creaking floorboard or a closed door or even the very act of falling asleep into something completely imbued with dread which is why, for me, it was so effective as a horror film. Pelli obviously realizes that you don't need to have some asshole with a fucked up face and a rusty chainsaw mutilating co-eds in order to be scary. In fact, turning the everyday and banal into instruments of fear is much scarier than said asshole could ever be.

Liz:
It is not showing anywhere near me.

FML.

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