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By: Wknd Box Office: In Time, Anonymous, Rum Diary, Love Crime, Paranormal Activity 3

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:50:01 +0000

[...] say more, except that it builds slowly to a lot of frightful chills and shivers. I hated the first “Paranormal Activity” (read my review). I liked the second one slightly better (read my review). But this one was really good. If [...]

By: Weekend Box Office: “Hereafter,” “Conviction,” “Stone,” “Paranormal Activity” | Debbie Schlussel

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:14:44 +0000

[...] “Paranormal Activity 2“: This one is far better than the original version, which stank (read my review). It’s also scarier and scarier more often. But it’s still very boring and seems soooo [...]

By: MPCpiano

MPCpiano — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:54:16 +0000

Thanks for the warnings.

By: Flixer

Flixer — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:38:06 +0000

PA: overrated crap. Dont believe the hype.

By: spaceship22

spaceship22 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:21:45 +0000

I saw “paranormal activity” and thought it was OK. Meaning for the amount of $10,000 that is a fairly good job by this Israeli guy. It could have used more terror and less talking to make it much more effective. Plus some of their actions just defied logic.

By: Marty Perry

Marty Perry — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:55:44 +0000

Thanks for the “review”, but actually, anyone with a brain and good taste merely has to watch the ads for this “horror show”
to stay away fro “Couples Retreat”

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:42:36 +0000

Thanks, Debbie. I rarely go out to a movie and was planning on seeing Paranormal Activity. I’ll wait for Netflix now.

By: sorrow01

sorrow01 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:34:58 +0000

High budget films are not necesarily the best ones. Horror films depend upon too much blood and gore to pad them. The plots are very formulaic and the death and destruction scenes are unitentionally laughable quite often. I would compare such productions with a film such as “Bad Seed”(1956). You did not see blood and gore, or even any explicit violence. Rather, one came to the conclusion, as did the mother,that Rhoda Penmark was a sociopathic killer in a little girl’s body. As the title of the film explictly states, some people are born bad. More modern horror films do not really have such a build up, and just get right to the action, rather like a porno flick.

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By: Douglas Q

Douglas Q — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:25:08 +0000

Debbie, do you think you might consider making an alphabetical list of your movie reviews available on the site? I’ve found that to be helpful on other review sites. I’d be interested in your thoughts about some of the classic movies such as “The Seventh Seal” or “The Philadelphia Story”. Thanks, and keep up the great work.

DQ: That’s in the works. Not sure how soon, but it’s in the plans. Thanks for the suggestion. DS