{"id":4040,"date":"2010-01-30T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2010-01-30T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:51:00","slug":"paranormal-activity-2007-oren-peli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4040","title":{"rendered":"Paranormal Activity (2007, Oren Peli)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handicam horror, but not all blair-witch super-shaky (or cloverfield or whatever).  Dude hears that his girlfriend has been haunted since she was little (she rolls out the backstory gradually since there&#8217;s not much else in the way of plot development) so he gets the camera and tries to document her hauntings.  Psychic tells them it&#8217;s demons not ghosts, shows them a clip from <em>The Exorcist<\/em> and skedaddles.  Doors open themselves, chandeliers shake, footprints appear.  The dude escalates things by buying a ouija board, spoiling things for everyone, including the viewer who&#8217;d been enjoying the general lack of hackery up to that point.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/paranormalactivity.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Movie is as great as advertised for the first half &#8211; I was scared to death.  The ouija thing takes it from convincing-fake-doc into clearly-scripted territory, where it remains as she reveals more backstory and discovers a long-lost family photo in the attic of the boyfriend&#8217;s house.  Then the ending (one of a few, apparently) didn&#8217;t do it for me.  She sleepwalks downstairs, screams until he comes running, then slowly comes back upstairs holding a bloody knife.  No problem there, and apparently the theatrical version ends into &#8220;she was never seen again&#8221; title cards, but mine had the cops come in and shoot her dead when they saw the knife.  Halfway worth the hype, then&#8230; still impressive for indie horror.  Let&#8217;s see if its sequel can avoid the <em>Blair Witch 2<\/em> trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handicam horror, but not all blair-witch super-shaky (or cloverfield or whatever). Dude hears that his girlfriend has been haunted since she was little (she rolls out the backstory gradually since there&#8217;s not much else in the way of plot development) so he gets the camera and tries to document her hauntings. Psychic tells them it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,54],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}