subject: Paranormal Activity 2 – designed to spook without assault [print this page] There is an opinion spreading around people that these times nothing could scare us. We have seen so many terrifying things on television, in real life, in the movies, so now nothing could surprise us and make feel shudders. According to this opinion, the scary games are not scary enough; the horror movies are more funny than shocking or appalling, we are already prepared for the things that could possibly be seen on TV, our threshold stimulus is much lower then it used to be Maybe it is like that but the fact that the second part of the movie Paranormal Activity earned strong $63 million in three days, from the first day of its showing, tells us that there are still some things that could make us frightened or the director of this movie has made something unseen and untold before so he got all the attention. This movie is now showing in only half a dozen countries outside of North America including the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico and Russia, and it will be released in over 30 countries in the next two weeks. Paranormal Activity 2 has the best ranking debut for a horror film, taking the title from last year's Friday the 13th.
The first part of this starless movie appeared last year. The independently produced movie was shot for less than $15,000 but earned nearly $108 million at the U.S. box office and $194 million worldwide and soon Paramount pictures picked it up for distribution from its independent producers.
Paranormal Activity speaks about young couple haunted by a supernatural presence in their home. This isn't something new but the interesting part is that the movie is presented in the style of "found footage" - genre of filmmaking in which the whole movie or a part of it is presented as an edit of recovered footage, often left behind by missing or dead protagonists. Katie and Micah set up a camera in an attempt to photograph what is haunting them, and the movie is conceptualized as a documentary - style thriller. The second part of the movie has all the menacing elements of the previous but now the victims are members of the extended family the life of Katie's sister and her newly born baby is being threatened by the "unseen". The sisters remember the hauntings from their childhood but Kristi's husband cannot believe anything about that In this part the number of gadgets used to detect the phenomenon is bigger.
The critics consider that the success is due to the fact that these movies are being scary and spooky but they attract audience that doesn't usually watch horrors. They don't offer ultra violent scenes;" the monster success provided an antidote, a taste of something designed to spook without assault."
Paranormal Activity 2 designed to spook without assault
By: Marina Janakievska
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