Paranormal activity is a horror movie published in 2007 and directed by Oren Peli.
The plot of the movie is all about young couple Katie and Micah moving in together. Soon after moving into their new house Katie and Micah starts to witness unnatural events in their apartment, doors are closed all by themselves, furniture is missing and pictures are ruined etc. Katie claims that some supernatural being is haunting her so Micah sets up camera in their bedroom to record everything that happens in their room at nights. Katie also contacts a psychic and asks him about this evil presence and he tells that it’s a demon who is feeding off of katies negative energy.
At this point there was a poignant juxtaposition between the reaction of Katie and his husband who wasn’t worried at all. First at nights almost nothing happens but as the movie goes on more serious things are starting to occur. Katie is getting desperate and calls a demonologist but when he arrives he is just saying that he is only making things worse and making the demon more angry. After this at 20th night Katie is ripped off of her bed to downstairs by some invisible being and after Micah saves her he notices that Katie has bite marks. Next night Katie is turning into something inhuman, demonic, and she kills Micah.
This whole movie is filmed from Katies or Micahs point of view or from the camera which is in their bedroom. This makes the film even more terrifying because it feels like you are inside the movie. Because Paranormal activity was pretty much filmed with one camera it was possible to film it without greater costs and really fast. It is said that the whole footage of the movie were filmed in one week but yet many critic says that it’s perhaps the scariest movie they have ever seen. Paranormal activitys budget was only 15 000 $ and the profit was astounding 193 355 800 $.
I really enjoyed watching this movie, the plot was simple but interesting unlike in sequels where the plot goes little bit too complicated which makes them less interesting and scary.