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(1 - 49) of 49 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1   3.5/5 "Don't believe the hype. You'll enjoy it far more that way."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 4/5 "It's a bit of The Exorcist, a bit of Poltergeist, a bit of The Blair Witch Project and a bit of Lost Highway - and it all adds up to a whole lot of scary."   Film4   Anton Bitel 1/5 "Paranormal Activity pretends to be a heart-stopping edge of your seat entertainment. It's actually just a homemade horror movie blown all out of proportion by studios sensing a hit."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 2.5/5 "Expect less and you will appreciate it more. The film isn't unique or even very well made. Peli only seems able to come up with HALF of a good idea throughout the film."   Kinetofilm   Brian Holcomb 6/10 "It's worth checking out, but just barely. I'm sorry to say that the scariest thing about this film is the couple's godawful taste in home furnishings."   CampBlood.org   Brian Juergens C "For a film already at the lower end of professional polish, the acting makes the whole shebang feel like a community theater rehearsal. I was half-expecting Corky St. Clair to show up as a spirit."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 5/10 "The more the film amps up the action, the more tangible the manifestations get, the less scary and involving the movie becomes."   DVDTown.com   Christopher Long C- "Compared with a precision horror film like Lars von Trier's terrifying upcoming shocker "Antichrist," "Paranormal Activity" is just kid's stuff."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The titular and sometimes distressing activity in Paranormal Activity serves as a mostly banal metaphor for the couples relationship."   Nitrate Online   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "...the filmmaker's inability to draw the viewer into the unabashedly spare storyline is exacerbated by an almost egregiously uneventful opening half hour..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "A pseudo reality horror pic in need of an exorcist."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "The viewer walks out of Paranormal Activity wishing there was more to it, while acknowledging all the same that the film's cumulative impact is formidable, permeating long after the lights have come up."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B+ "A low-budget horror flick that uses its do-it-yourself aesthetic to great advantage in scaring the pee out of viewers."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Paranormal Activity will please horror fans and is an even better date movie; it's funny, too."   Cinematical   Eugene Novikov 4.5/5 "If you think horror movies can't scare you, if you think modern horror has nothing more to offer, try sitting through "Paranormal Activity" and then thank the filmmakers for changing your mind..."   Film Threat   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Have we learned nothing from the Blair Witch hoax?"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B "Isn't much more than an extended exercise in horror tropes, but it's a clever one, expertly designed and executed, depending more on pulse-pounding suggestion rather than explicit violence."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "The haunting is a metaphor for the challenges young couples face in building successful relationships..."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 3.5/4 "absolutely bone-chilling"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Paranormal Activity boasts some scary moments, sure, but the movie cannot live up to its own hype . . ."   fantastiqueZINE   James O'Ehley 4.5/5 "The sizzle of the marketing is impressive; the steak of the actual movie, served bloody and rare and juicy, is even more so."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi 9/10 "I'd rank being stuck in a big quiet house at night as one of life's most easily unnerving experiences, and this movie capitalizes on it."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1/5 "full review at Movies for the Masses"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4.5/5 "It's not the scariest movie I have ever seen, but it's probably the most efficient and insidious. The noises in my house never seemed so loud or inexplicable as they do after seeing this. It's a great scary treat and the filmmakers should be rewarded wi"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 4.0/4.0 "... creates a prison without bars that lets the audience experience the walls closing in along with the victims."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "It's excellent minimalist filmmaking with relatively simple special effects and a strong reliance on suspense... Paranormal Activity will get inside your head."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B+ "Although [Oren Peli] has borrowed liberally from films from "The Blair Witch Project" to "The Exorcist" and a dash of "Lost Highway," "Paranormal Activity" is a sterling standout in a genre that usually disappoints."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "A campfire story for the cyber generation, a bogey tale wrapped in time codes and misplaced faith in the power of technology to banish ghosties, ghoulies and long-leggedy beasties."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 3.5/4 "Undeniably scary."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik B+ "Paranormal Activity isn't an actor's film per se, but it wouldn't be as eerily effective without Featherston and Sloat's believable, lived in performances."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Does no one else see that the few genuinely creepy and original moments here are so few and far between that this would have been far more intriguing as a YouTube short...?"   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Fun, creepy, unpretentious little haunted house rides like these are so hard to come by these days that slight overpraise is understandable."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "Paranormal Activity goes on the short list of films that totally, completely freaked me out."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "The same old thing dressed up in very slightly different clothes."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Sem sentir necessidade de bombardear a platéia com efeitos visuais e sonoros o tempo inteiro, investe no silêncio e na sutileza para contar sua historinha simples, trocando os sustos corriqueiros por um constante e palpável estado de absoluta tensão."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca "The late, great William Castle would have loved this thing, provided that he didn't actually have to sit through it, of course."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "While this gimmicky movie creates a superb creep-out atmosphere, it's never actually very scary. There are a couple of good jolts, but the idea itself is more unsettling than any anxiety the filmmaker can generate."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "Actually makes its premise work and delivers substantial creeps."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 2.5/4 "Paranormal Activity only occasionally rises above the status of a cute haunted house tour or hayride."   Slant Magazine   Rob Humanick A "A peerless exercise in stimulus response."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 4.5/5 "A low-budget winner that every horror geek should try to check out."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "... a fairly satisfying piece of filmmaking and an overhyped piece of cult marketing."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "Far more effective during its nighttime scenes"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "Nearly a decade after The Blair Witch Proejct, the faux-documentary approach is a little tired... Fortunately, once you get past the artistic contrivance, Paranormal Activity is frequently terrifying."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 7/10 "Subtly scary, supernatural fright flick"   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 9/10 "This kind of movie only has to work once, and it works about as well that one time as anything else in history."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 1/4 "It's a good try."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 49) of 49 OFCS Rating: 69% Fresh Page   1