Directed by: Oren Peli
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs
Released: September 25, 2009 (limited)

Not since the much loved/hated ‘Blair Witch Project’ (a movie I enjoyed greatly), have we seen a marketing campaign for a horror movie quite like the one for ‘Paranormal Activity’. Initially only opening in 13 cities across the U.S., horror buffs had to go to the movie’s website and demand the movie be brought to their neck of the woods. That “want what you can’t have” mentality combined with a trailer and reviews promising the movie will make you crap your theater seat and hork your dinner in the aisles resulted in ‘Paranormal Activity’ not only becoming a big success, but becoming a fucking HUGE one. With a total production budget of only $15,000, ‘Paranormal Activity’ has currently managed to pull in nearly $37 million dollars. 37 goddamn million dollars. Now, I’m no expert, but I’d have to say that’s quite the modest return on investment.

So, yeah we know this movie made an assload of money. That’s awesome, good for them. But as any moviegoer who’s had to sit through an overhyped shitpile knows, tons of movies that rake in the big bucks are complete dogshit *cough*transformers2*cough*. I think the questions that most people need answering are these: is this movie any good and is it as scary as all of the reviews and trailers are making it out to be? The answers, my dear readers, are “yes” and “ehhhh, not quite”.