Genre: Horror / Suspense
Running Time: 86 minutes

Paranormal Activity is about a couple who believes they are haunted by something. They decide to film themselves while they sleep at night to find out what it is and eventually how to deal with it.

A series of strange events are caught on camera night after ngiht and the events start manifesting themselves more violently than the previous one.

The whole movie is built on the premise that what you're watching is all footage found from the couple's camera, which somehow ended up in the police station. So it's kind of like a video log (similar to those Youtube ones you'd watch) and there's a raw, home-video feel to it.

I presume this whole mockumentary thing is to make the movie feel more real and scary than it actually is but I'm too much of a cynic to hypnotize myself for that. I knew for a fact that the movie was produced, so that kind of suppressed the fear in my mind from taking over. I mean seriously, who is dumb enough to believe that if something like this REALLY happened that they would broadcast it to the freaking world? But if you are the kind that got into it (or can get into it) without any preconceived notions of how the movie came about, then it would be a much scarier movie for you.

However, that isn't to say the movie isn't scary at all. It's still very creepy in parts so you might want to watch it with a friend or two. The first twenty or so minutes of mundane footage is all just a ruse. My skin crawled at a few parts in the movie.

The ending though, is pretty much the most shocking thing of the whole movie. Stay till then. I peed in my pants a little. Just a little.

Verdict: Paranormal Activity is honestly not the scariest thing to watch in theaters, but the paranoia you will have thereafter when you try to sleep at night makes it beyond terrifying.

Worth watching for: The ending. It was really good. Also, the aftereffects. You won't be able to sleep properly for nights. At least I wasn't able to, which is why I'm up at 4:49 AM writing this stupid review. Sigh.