Boo. Paranormal Activity = FAIL

It was a case of carrot and stick, with a twist. When I finally got the carrot, it didn't taste very good.

I wanted to be scared. I wanted to join the in crowd. I wanted that hype to be deserved.

I wanted it to be good. I didn't want to laugh, I wanted a fright, because it's Halloween, and well, I felt like being frightened. It's not often, but sometimes a scary movie can be fun.

Maybe I'm jaded, but the horror vérité /shaky cam genre doesn't creep me out all that much, the partial exception being Cloverfield. Cloverfield was pretty good, but it didn't scare the crap out of me. It had good pacing, and I felt more of the character's panic as they desperately tried to escape from Certain Doom. It was less about the monster and more "Oh shit, what are they gonna do? OMGOMGOMGRUUUUUNNNNNN!".

Paranormal Activity didn't do much for me. Most of the time, I was giggling at how dumb these people were. The suspense was okay to a point- the tension/release was good for a while, then I got irritated. It dragged on. Too much tease, and not enough reward. It's like a dominatrix that tickles you, but never gives you that smack you so richly deserve....

Where the hell did that come from? Oh, Amy, why does your mind go there? Ahem.

When I finally got the payoff, I was thinking, "That's fucking IT?!?" I should have learned my lesson long ago from The Blair Witch Project, but I never saw that in the theater, and I thought maybe that sort of stuff is scarier on a big screen. No, no it's not.

I really wanted to enjoy it, too *sniff*