...the movie that is, not the comic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074

I'm definitely interested at least. Really terrifying or just over-hyped as hell? It's only playing in a few, select theaters right now, anyone seen it? They're not showing much of anything in the trailer, don't know if that's a good or bad sign...

I don't like how they keep calling it the next "Blair Witch" though. I know it's filmed documentary-esque and all...but Blair Witch wasn't scary. >_>

Blair Witch wasn't even the first of its kind: a movie called "The Last Broadcast", which is also a "docu-horror" film, came out a year before Blair Witch.

As for the trailer, I'd like to comment on it, but my connection is not handling video at the moment.

I swear I'm immune to these horror movies, nothing has really scared me in them. Except for this preview, which mostly just creeped the shit out of me.





Too bad the movie will probably suck. vOv

I'll still end up seeing Paranormal Activity though. While it may not scare me, it still looks like a really interesting film and worth the time and money.

Yeah, apparently they're attempting to use viral marketing to the fullest extent. Instead of campaigning themselves to have the theater chains pick up their movie, they let the fans do all the dirty work. The idea of the trailer is to show us how the audience reacts to it, thus attempting to increase our interest. If you go to their main website, you'll see a button labeled "Demand it". By clicking it, you're diverted to a list of cities, located in and around the area you live in. Personally I find the whole viral marketing to be very annoying. How cheap do you have to be to decide to let the public do all the work for you?

Not expecting much from this movie. Stuff like Blair Witch, Cloverfield and Quarantine are being done because it's a fairly cheap way to produce movies. It's also fairly shitty.

Yeah, that's cause they don't hide anything from you. Instead of implying something gruesome, they show it (in CGI) and it's just gross, not scary. I watched The Last House on The Left the other day, it was terrible. But the new Friday the 13th? It was complete horse shit. The whole movie was in the dark and you couldn't see anything except for when they showed the the blood and the tits. No substance. All these new hollywood horror movies are all the same!

Paranormal Activity looks like it could be ok, but probably not.

that looks really cool ... i really wish it was playing in my neck of the woods though

The 70's Grindhouse trailer returns! YES!

Yes, well I cry shenanigans. I just got an e-mail yesterday telling me they just received a million demands so they're going to release it nationwide on the 16th. Right...so, they just figured they'd make all those prints of the movie and then not use them if the fans didn't demand it enough...or are we supposed to believe they're going to make/ship enough prints of the film for the 16th? Ha!

I hate to say it, but it seems kind of lame.

Blair Witch was special not only because it's "documentary" style, but because at the time people didn't know if it was a real documentary or not. And it was weeks after the release before that was revealed. That curve ball can never be thrown at us again, specifically because of that movie.

I just watched this over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. Probably because I didn't know much of what to expect, and I like scary movies that burn slow and build up to something good.

Plus, the good scary movies are the ones that stick with you after you leave the theater, and this one did for me.

By the way, I've never seen that Blair Witch movie, so that might be a factor in why I liked Paranormal Activity so much.

I saw it over the weekend due to wide release and I might say... much like Hawk this movie also stuck with me. Although I was expecting a whole lot more -- the suspense was more than enough to win me over.

If you're interested, here's the original ending to Paranormal Activity, fully viewable right online. Naturally it's a spoileer to anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet.

I prefer the ending they went with for the theatrical release, but it's fun to see another direction they were thinking of taking it.

Yeah, I had downloaded the DVDrip of the film and was freaked out when the ending changed... turns out I was watching the 2007 version. Hope they add both endings in the Blu Ray.

I just saw it tonight... the 2007 ending.

It was rather scary but imo in the end, I felt like it wasn't going anywhere, rather dull after the suspense and excitement they'd been making...

What happens in the 'alternate ending'? youtube have removed it
The version I saw she just stabbed him and threw him into the camera then spazzed out a bit :s