Paranormal Activity 2
Rating: R
Brought to you by OBS staff member Annabell Cadiz
Paranormal Activity 2 is a prequel to what took place in Paranormal Activity. The movie is told by first person perspective, as was the first one. This time though there are various cameras instead of just one. After a series of what the family believes to be break ins, cameras are installed all over the house. The movie starts off centered around the new arrival of baby Hunter. Then progresses as he ages, jumping a few months. Once Hunter is around one, strange things start to take place around the house. Weird banging sounds. Doors being opened on there own. Hunter seems to be able to see something hanging around his room no one else can see. Drawers are being left open. As in the first Paranormal Activity movie, you are taken step by step through the torment one family faces from a demon.
Paranormal Activity 2 proves to be as good as the original but not better. The movie takes a very long time to actually start getting interesting. I was interested at the beginning but once the movie progressed forward and nothing of significance happened, I started getting bored. Took about thirty minutes for the movie to start peaking my interest long enough for me to care about what was happening. I suppose the director was attempting to build more suspense than in the first one but in my humble opinion, he only managed to make me yawn more times than I should in a movie that supposed to be considered scary.
But once the movie started getting good, it took off! The back story was very nicely woven together with the story from the first movie (leaving enough unanswered questions for a third one to be made). Some of the stunts pulled in the first one are used again in Paranormal Activity 2 but to much larger, and scarier scale! There is one scene in particular you will get jump-out-of-your-seat-scream-your-lungs-out over!
Paranormal Activity 2 (and Part 1 for that matter) are such good horror movies because the creators behind them realize there is nothing that can scare a human being more than his or her own imagination. Paranormal Activity 2 delivers on just that!
Running Time: 91 minutes
Director: Todd Williams
Rating: 8/10 stars
After Paranormal Activity (the original) came out I left the theater wondering two things (knowing that there would surely be a sequel.) 1)Will Katie’s boobs actually get a lead part in PA2? 2)Can we witness Micah dying again for the assurance that his douchebaggary is officially dead?
Luckily for me, the directors came through in the clutch. Katie’s boobs make a guest appearance in multiple bikini shots. The director also gave an added bonus of cleavage throughout the entire movie. There were parts where even the father had a little bit of cleavage showing. Oh, Mr. Director how well you know your target audience. Sure, we college aged males like to be scared at a midnight showing, but you take it that extra step. There is only so much that can be said about being scared after the movie, but cleavage talks can last throughout the night. Thank you for giving us that privilege.
In answering the second question, we didn’t actually get to see Micah die again, BUT we know. I’m glad they brought him back for a little bit so that we could all remember why we were glad that Katie killed him. Then we are shown that he, in fact, is dead when Katie walks into the final scene with blood on her nightgown. The fear that the scene is supposed to instill was overtaken by the immense joy I felt in reminiscing about the death of Micah. Thank you also for that!
All-in-all, it was a very good movie. They took what worked for them in the first one (literally, they took every paranormal activity that happened in the first movie) and multiplied it by a million. A little shock value was lost because we all knew what was going to happen. Oh, nothing happened day one? A small door movement later on? A huge bang? Doors flying open? Sheet moving? Person being drug out of a room? All of this happened before but somehow it kept it’s liveliness in PA2. I am preparing myself for PA3 where Katie and Hunter rove the land looking to terrorize the world Jason Vorhees style.
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