PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 1 FULL MOVIE
There are clearly already cracks there before the movie even begins, Micah’s adolescent immaturity clashing with Katie’s more sensible attitude, and there’s a throwaway scene about Micah taking a hit on the stock market that becomes much more ominous if you keep in mind that the film is set right before the 2007 financial disaster. The thing you have to understand about Paranormal Activity is that it is much more about the erosion of Katie and Micah’s relationship than it is about the demon, just as The Blair Witch Project was much more about people getting lost in the wilderness that it was about the witch. Simply moving out of their house isn’t an option the being stalking Katie is a demon, not a ghost, and i t ‘ s n o t t h e h o u s e t h a t ‘ s h a u n t e d.
At night the entity’s shenanigans escalate rapidly from mysterious creaks and footsteps to violent destruction and full-on possession, and during the day we see the psychological strain that this is taking on Katie and Micah.
Over the course of the next 21 days things go spectacularly wrong for our two leads, possibly as a direct result of Micah’s stupidity. Katie on the other hand just wants the thing to go away and hires a psychic to help out, a move Micah objects strenuously to not out of skepticism but because his patriarchal hyper-machismo can’t abide the thought of someone else defending his home and woman. At the start of he movie he purchases a camera and sets it up to document any ghostly activity around the house, ostensibly with the intent of getting to the bottom of the problem but actually because he thinks it would be totally fucking awesome to have ghost footage on his hard drive. It’s not clear when exactly she informed Micah about this, but we do learn that he didn’t know when they decided to move in together. They’re young, attractive and rich! Life is great!Įxcept for the fact that Katie has been plagued since childhood by poltergeist-like activity and sightings of a shadowy being. Katie Featherstone and Micah Sloane (played by Katie Featherstone and Micah Sloane) are a sort of Norman Rockwell-esque Perfect American Couple for the 2000s, living in a big fancy California house on the money Micah makes as a successful home day trader while Katie attends college. Anything that makes literally ten times its minuscule budget is going to cause studio executive’s eyes to light up, even taking the film’s expensive marketing blitz into account.īut why make a shit-load of money on one cheap movie when you can repeatedly make a shit-load of money on a whole series of cheap movies? There was already a precedent for this, with the relatively inexpensive Saw franchise becoming a yearly Halloween staple, so it made sense for Paramount to drive Paranormal Activity into the ground with a whole boatload of sequels. We’re going to look at two of them today! The found-footage genre laid low for a while, The Blair Witch Project existing mostly as a unique novelty, but the financial legacy of the film couldn’t be ignored forever. Spooky blog season is right around the corner, and to prepare I’ve decided to repost some horror reviews from my old blogīack in 2009 Paranormal Activity came out, and everyone thought it was awesome.Īctually wait, back in 1999 The Blair Witch Project came out and everyone thought it was awesome (well, if you want to go back even further The Last Broadcast came out the year before (and there was also Cannibal Holocaust) but no one really noticed).
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