Well, this movie certainly didn’t live up to…well, anything, really.

The cover is incredibly misleading for starters. Who is that scary yet alluring creature? She certainly isn’t in the movie. And that graveyard? I didn’t see a graveyard. Way to make a fool of me, graphic designer/marketing department, whomever and wherever you are. Shame on me.

Fuck, you know what? It’s my fault. A grieving couple moves to a remote location on the Irish coast and take in a kid who happens to be “evil” and I’m supposed to think it’s going to somehow be different than every other movie in remote locations with an evil kid? Shame on me again. And, to top it off, it’s a British flick, which means it’s filmed in that way British movies and TV shows are filmed. You know, kind of soft or foggy or whatever it is. I don’t care for it. And I didn’t care for this movie. But maybe you will, so here’s how it all plays out…

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There’s no doubt you’ve heard all about this movie by now. If you haven’t seen it, everyone you know has seen it and they’re probably divided into two extreme camps on whether it’s good or not. I’ve heard many people say how gloriously terrifying this movie is and I’ve heard others say how ridiculously stupid it is. What do I think? Well, I’m uncomfortably straddling the fence between the two and I could fall either way depending on how much trouble I have falling asleep tonight. On the one hand, I have a real strong dislike for most movies shot in the first-person, home video style (Cloverfield, Quarantine, Home Movie, etc.) and having to sit through 90 minutes of that kind of shaky nonsense does not make me happy. On the other hand, I really dig any kind of horror movie that delivers simple, legitimate, honest, bare bones chills, and Paranormal Activity does exactly that.

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