Yesterday I got a chance to see recently released horror flick "Paranormal Activity". As some of you might already heard about the movie, it's a thriller/horror flick directed by Oren Peli. It is a low budget movie revolves around a young couple who have moved to a new house and the paranormal activities they encounter in that house. This movie was produced few year back (2007 i guess) but could not be released due to financial implications.. (guess nobody was ready to buy). However, the film's producer/director did not lose the hope. After many problems, this film is now released by Paramount.
Few lines about the story... Katie and Micah are lovers and live together. They move to a new house in suburban and freaky things starts to happen during night. Katie had several such encounters in the past since she was 8 years old and occurs now and then. Her lover, Micah who does not take this seriously in the beginning tries to record an evidence. So, they fix a video camera (whole movie is actually shown to us through that camera only) in their bedroom. Everyday during night time, they hears sounds and freaks out the couple. Local doctor who deals paranormal stuff refuses to deal this since he sniffs that the "thing" does not like his presence. Day by day the horror grows and the couples are disturbed more. Atlast in the climax... ok.. dont want to break the suspense.. go and see the movie to enjoy the thrill.. Though I liked the sudden suspense in the end.. I actually did not like the way movie ended.
I have seen many horror flicks (mostly during night) and this one fits in one of the best horror flick. There is no big background score (since the movie is just the talks between Katie and Micah intheir house), no big CGI work.. but still this movie has all the stuff to pump your blood and a very good climax (really unexpected one). Some of the good things which I like about this movie is no blood pouring murders, no zombies with ugly makeup (kind-a hate that) and no sex scenes (otherwise most of the horror flicks have atleast one scene where the zombie or the killer kills the couple when they have sex...).
If you get a chance.. see it once..
Trailer:
Some background of the production/release:
It was early 2008, and the director's DreamWorks studio was trying to decide whether it wanted to be a part of the micro-budgeted supernatural thriller. As the story goes, Spielberg had taken a "Paranormal Activity" DVD to his Pacific Palisades estate, and not long after he watched it, the door to his empty bedroom inexplicably locked from the inside, forcing him to summon a locksmith.
While Spielberg didn't want the "Paranormal Activity" disc anywhere near his home -- he brought the movie back to DreamWorks in a garbage bag, colleagues say -- he very much shared his studio's enthusiasm for director Oren Peli's haunting story about the demonic invasion of a couple's suburban tract house.
"Paranormal Activity" was hardly a typical studio production. Peli, an Israeli-born video game designer who had no formal film training, shot the $15,000 movie in a week in 2006 with a no-name cast, a crew of several San Diego friends and a hand-held video camera.
But as Spielberg and the DreamWorks team believed, the movie held a special appeal -- it was original and scary. The challenge was to fit this round peg into a DreamWorks square hole -- a process that would ultimately take more than a year and a half, the delay exacerbated by the slow collapse of Paramount's acquisition of DreamWorks. For a time, it looked as if Spielberg was right: "Paranormal Activity" appeared cursed -- to sit on a shelf.
But now, supported by one of the more unusual marketing and distribution strategies conjured up for a studio release, Paramount is finally opening the film in 13 college towns on Friday, with a wider national rollout planned for mid-October. Scary movies are a dime a dozen these days -- at least 75 horror movies have been released theatrically in the last three years -- and "Paranormal Activity" doesn't have the franchise awareness or recognizable actors that help separate a handful of genre films from the teeming herd.
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