Paranormal Activity

I saw this film on 30th November at Stratford Picture House


This film has a cast of five but only two appear for more than a few minutes. The action at times seemed more like Big Brother before breakfast than a horror story, an impression helped by the low quality 24-hour camera footage. The real action when it came was not quite worth waiting for. I found neither main character convincing, surprisingly the male character was more so: geekish and techie obssessed, he is a fool who does not appreciate what he might be dealing with nor how dangerous it might be. She on the other hand, appreciates all of this from the beginning but goes along with his daft approach. The only sensible one is the cowardly ghost expert.

Unusually the film had no closing credits.

For a weekday matinee the performance was surprisingly well attended by a largely well-behaved audience but with quite a lot of nervous giggling.