![]() ![]() Which is not the same thing as "great movie that is also a horror movie". Very, very few people seem to grasp that it's effective because actually it's a fucking great horror movie - probably the greatest horror movie I've seen in a theater during its first run. Man, being in film festival mode does crazy shit to your mind).Īmong the things I have read: the film is not effective, because it is slow (I really honestly pity people who believe that scary and slow are enemies in fact, they are the most natural allies in the world) that it is only effective because of the ad campaign, and the audience wills it to be effective that is effective because of the heightening effect of midnight screenings (those reviews were written, obviously, before October 9th) that it is effective or ineffective because et cetera. So basically, I am at once the ideal viewer - for I have no preconceptions - and the absolutely most useless reviewer, since everybody else does have those preconceptions, and if they didn't before the wide release date, than they probably do now that it's been in theaters for over a week (that's another thing: it was out for six days when I saw it, and I still hadn't heard anything. I figured that I'd see it when it got that inevitable wide release (Harry Knowles could guarantee it half that many votes in a single afternoon with the gesture of one puffy, stubby finger), because with that title it must be a horror picture, and I see most of those.īut until doing the research for this review, I didn't know a blessed thing about the widely-hyped midnight screenings hadn't heard anything about Steven Spielberg's hugely positive response to everything except for the ending, which was subsequently changed hadn't seen the trailer I didn't even know what it was about, and I was taken aback in the first few seconds when it was obvious that it was going to be another one of those "first person camera" movies. ![]() Somewhere, I picked up that it was made for under $20,000, and I was aware that Paramount had put up a website, to the effect that if the movie got 1,000,000 votes, it would receive a national wide release, and I even visited to vote - not really out of any urge other than my desire for every movie to get a wide release I'd have done the same for Larry the Cable Guy in Fitcarraldo 2: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat. See, up until really recently, I didn't have any idea that the film was apparently the object of a huge viral marketing blitz. I am either the ideal person to discuss Paranormal Activity, or the absolute worst person imaginable. ![]()
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