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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Kenneth Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For the curious - here's the gardemmet spooky trailer in HD: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3pGqHGPQiI > > Enjoy! > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Spanx <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A Horror Film Phenomenon:*Paranormal Activity* By RICHARD CORLISS Saturday, >> Oct. 10, 2009 >> [image: Katie Featherston stars in Paranormal Activity] >> Katie Featherston stars in Paranormal Activity >> Paramount / Everett >> >> - Print <http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1929648,00.html> >> - Email >> - >> Reprints<https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet?publisherName=TIME&publication=TIME&title=A%20Horror%20Film%20Phenomenon%3A%20%3Ci%3EParanormal%20Activity%3C%2Fi%3E&publicationDate=10/10/2009&author=Richard%20Corliss&contentID=1929648&orderBeanReset=true> >> >> >> - >> Digg<http://digg.com/submit?url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1929648,00.html?iid=digg_share&title=A%20Horror%20Film%20Phenomenon%3A%20%3Ci%3EParanormal%20Activity%3C%2Fi%3E&bodytext=The%20%2411%2C000%20fright%20flick%20is%20catching%20on%20and%20poised%20for%20a%20box%2Doffice%20breakout> >> - >> Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1929648,00.html&t=A%20Horror%20Film%20Phenomenon%3A%20%3Ci%3EParanormal%20Activity%3C%2Fi%3E> >> - >> <http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=time&guid=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Farts%2Farticle%2F0%2C8599%2C1929648%2C00.html&targetUrl=> >> - >> Twitter<http://twitter.com/home?status=reading%20from...@time%20http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1929648,00.html> >> - MORE >> >> Oh, sweet Jesus, that nice couple Kate and Micah are about to go to >> sleep again! But they already suspect that their house is haunted. Micah has >> propped up his video camera in their bedroom, to record any unusual >> phenomena, so they know what awful thing happened last night, while they >> were sleeping. The bedroom door *moved a couple inches*, and then... *moved >> back!* >> Related >> Specials<http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1676793_1676808,00.html> >> The All-TIME Top 25 Horror >> Movies<http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1676793_1676808,00.html> >> Specials<http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401,00.html> >> 10 Lessons from the Summer Box >> Office<http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401,00.html> >> More Related >> >> - State of Play: Better on the Small >> Screen<http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1891813,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar> >> - >> Appreciation<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106330,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar> >> - ’Of Time and the City’: Terence Davies’ Liverpool >> Memories<http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1897783,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar> >> >> Big hairy deal, say cynics who've been bred on gross-out horror movies. >> Show us heads exploding, chests busting, legs sawed off. Yet the packed >> audience at a late-night screening of *Paranormal Activity* on Times >> Square this week didn't need gore effects to be scared witless. Yes, they >> knew it was only a movie — one that, like *The Blair Witch Project* and * >> Cloverfield* and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a >> patina of realism to the fanciful events dreamed up by writer-director Oren >> Peli and endured by actors Micah Stoat and Katie Featherston (using their >> real names). But when that door moved, the crowd's collective gasp just >> about sucked all the oxygen out of the theater.(See the top 25 horror >> movies of all >> time.)<http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1676793_1676808,00.html> >> >> The campaign to bring *Paranormal Activity* to the public is already a >> movie industry legend. Shot three years ago by Peli, an Israeli-born >> videomaker, for $11,000, in a week, in his own house, the picture played a >> few fright festivals in 2007. While DreamWorks considered buying the rights >> to do a remake with stars, Steven Spielberg took *PA* home to watch; and >> when he'd finished screening it... he found his bathroom door inexplicably >> locked. (He thought the DVD was haunted.) Two weeks ago, Paramount started >> playing Peli's film at midnight in 16 college towns. Many showings were sold >> out. Sorry, come back next week, if you dare. No tickets created a hot >> ticket — the movie grossed $1.2 million in its early, limited engagements — >> and Paramount stoked the fever by urging fans to go online and "demand" a >> wider release. More than a million such requests came in, allowing its web >> site to brag that *PA* is "the first-ever major film release decided by >> You." >> >> This weekend, *PA* has expanded to all-day runs on 159 screens in 44 >> cities, and according to early reports, it's headed for a box-office >> breakout — perhaps the highest three-day gross of any films showing in fewer >> than 200 venues. "Look out cuz there's a freight train coming," an executive >> from a rival studio told Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke, "and Paramount is >> going to make a TON of cash on this pickup. Cuz they ain't spending anything >> on it, and who knows where the ceiling is!" The box-office figures will make >> headlines, give the movie more free publicity and lure bigger crowds eager >> to learn what all the screaming is about.(See the 100 best movies of all >> time.) <http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/> >> >> Beyond the viral ingenuity of the marketing, what's cool about *Paranormal >> Activity* is that it's not just a fun thrill ride, but an instructive >> artistic experience. A horror-movie revisionist, Peli follows a less-is-more >> strategy; he knows that waiting for the big scary jolt does more damage to >> the nervous system than getting it. The tension builds slowly, as the very >> apprehensive Katie, a student, and the skeptical Micah, a day trader, feel >> the first little emotional tremors. The movie keeps us in its grip — because >> we never leave the couple's haunted property, and because all we see is what >> the camera has recorded when held by Micah or Katie, or left on at night to >> monitor their bedroom. That claustrophobia creates a bond between the couple >> and the audience; they can't escape, and neither can we. >> >> Peli downplays shock, emphasizes suspense: a shadow creeping across a >> wall, or the ripple of an unseen form under the bedsheets. The gore scenes >> in splatter movies carry a sadistic punch, but those are outside most >> moviegoers' experience. What Peli's interested in is dread, a feeling >> everyone is familiar with. (Will I lose my job? Has she found someone else? >> Why hasn't our kid come home yet? What's that strange rash?) Movies take >> that anxiety, crystallize it and, because fiction demands an ending, resolve >> it. The threat is provided, the fear made flesh, the monster confronted. All >> gone — feel better? Horror movies provide vicarious psychotherapy in an hour >> and a half. *PA* is different: at the end, it doesn't let viewers off the >> hook. It leaves them hanging there, and dares them to turn that last shiver >> into a laugh of relief that the delicious ordeal is over.(See 10 lessons >> from the summer box >> office.)<http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1918385_1918401,00.html> >> >> *PA* really has less in common with modern gore movies than with certain >> avant-garde films of the late '60s, like Michael Snow's *Wavelength*, a >> murder mystery in the form of a single, slow, 45-min. zoom shot through a >> room, and Morgan Fisher's *Phi Phenomenon*, an 11-min. shot of a wall >> clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to >> concentrate so intently that they can see the minute hand move. *PA* uses >> a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes >> has a time code at the bottom right of the frame. Sometimes the clock spins >> like mad to show the passing of hours between phenomena — or, in one >> super-creepy scene, the image of Katie standing motionless, as if still >> asleep, for two hours straight. It's even more chilling a few nights later, >> when Katie, clearly the more haunted of the two, again stands still for >> hours but this time on Micah's side of the bed. >> >> If you're a horror-movie fraidy cat, know that most of the spooky stuff >> occurs in the bedroom, so — as with *The Exorcist* back in 1973 — you can >> steel yourself when the couple goes to sleep. Then too, you may not be >> scared at all by *Paranormal Activity*; but as you sit in a movie house >> you should feel some fraternal pleasure in noticing that the folks around >> you are preparing or pretending to be scared. And you should be heartened to >> realize that — in an age of YouTube, iPod and DVR, where people get their >> visual media one by one — watching a fictional narrative can still be a >> communal activity. A thousand people sit as one in the dark, as fretful and >> enthralled as a child hearing a bedtime story, and wondering, What happens >> next? No, I can't bear it! 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