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ThE independent film that was made for €15,000 and grossed €100m in the US (and counting). If that sounds very Blair Witch Project, that's because it is: Paranormal Activity has been sawed from the template.
One-man-show director Oren Peli crafts a documentary-style scarefest in which the actors themselves do the camera work. It looks like a DIY Amityville Horror: Micah (Micah Sloat) and Katie (Katie Featherston) are a twentysomething couple whose house is plagued by a supernatural force. Things rumble in the night. Doors open and close. Micah decides to document it on camera. A psychic comes, tells them it's a demon and gets the hell out of there, saying he's not equipped for the task. Whatever you do, he tells Micah, don't get out the Ouija board. So Micah gets out the Ouija board.
The terror builds like a slowly-tightening screw. The thrills play off the power of suggestion, because what there is to see is very little. Most of the action is filmed from a hand-cam left on a tripod overlooking their bed.
Will you sleep well at night after this? Hell, yes. Unless you believe in demons that leave cloven footprints in the talc. (This has to be a first). But it is tense and entertaining and the pay-off is worth the wait.
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