December 2009 @ Showcase De Lux, Bristol

After its release date in 2007 at a minor film festival, Paranormal Activity has finally exploded out from the closet to raise hairs across the UK; it’s already been let loose in the US where it has reached a higher position in the box office then the latest instalment of Saw. How did it go so far? Well, to be impetuous - it’s complete cult jubilation.

Micah’s girlfriend Katie has the concentrated belief that she has been haunted ever since she was a child. Equipped with his gloriously exorbitant camera and bucket loads of confidence, Micah attempts to record the paranormal developments to hopefully prove to Katie that the old floorboards are just creaking from the wind. Unfortunately for him, this is not the case. Several horrendous and iconic moments occur at night and you will soon be sheltering for relief behind your bucket of popcorn.

With a tiny budget, Paranormal Activity strongly resembles the Blair Witch Project and the zombie berserk REC brand of horror but this film consumes its audience and will be listed by many as one of their most precious film of the year if not one of their best scares of the decade. Katie Featherston and Micah Slot are both unfamiliar actors to anyone watching but are very compelling and convincing and the film’s director, Oren Peli, excels even though he has no other movies to his name. His next project, Area 51, will have a significantly bigger budget and it will be interesting to see what he can do with it.

Paranormal Activity will leave you too shocked to even sleep with the light off but, on the bright side, more than delighted that your money has been well spent.

www.paranormalactivity-movie.com

Andrew Dex