There is nothing much wrong with Paranormal Activity. It is just that the horror genre is becoming woefully bereft of any fresh ideas. Yet again there is a movie that chooses to place you in a familiar setting – a regular couple in a regular affluent American suburb, and the gradual changes in their lives on account of an increasingly intensifying haunting. The “lack of originality” problem is compounded by the average cast and the truly mediocre script (for one, find the burning curiosity of a day trader continuing his incessant surreptitious solo investigation of a phenomenon that does not really concern him, less than believable). End of the movie, I felt boredom with the horror genre itself. Post Mirrors, I cannot think of a single movie in the horror genre that has not been an out and out disappointment
7/20
7/20
