Paranormal Activity

Its been a long time since a horror film arrived on a crest of positive hype. For me, the genre has been in a rut for the majority of this decade. So with great excitement I sat down to watch this last night. Lights off, headphones on, 2am. I practically went all out to induce the scares but to be honest they rarely came. This is not to say the film wasn't scary it just lacked big set-pieces really. Although I imagine that would be against the format of the movie, a sacrifice they weren't willing to make. As a film of suspense though it was thoroughly enjoyable, a tangible sense of dread slowing bubbling throughout the picture. The only downside was some very shoddy acting in a few scenes, not the scare scenes surprisingly though. The daytime scenes were sometimes downright cringe worthy and sometimes showed that some scenes were only there to highlight the blight caused by the ghost and were really of no value. To say I didn't like the film would be wrong but to say the film is worth the hype is a different matter.