So yesterday Ashley's parents surprised me by taking me to the Best Buy Mobile store in the Annapolis Mall and bought me a 32GB iPhone. Usually trips to the mall with her parents are quite fruitful but this was absolutely ridiculous. So extremely good times!
Being the socialites Ashley and I are, we spent Halloween just the two of us. We decided that our Halloween would consist of some scary movies. We bickered for a while about the level of scary each of us wanted. Long story short, Ashley showed off how good of a wife she is by letting us go to a late night showing of Paranormal Activity.
Paranormal Activity is a story about a couple who is haunted by some kind of mysterious demon. Just like the Blair Witch Project, Paranormal is a faux-documentary pretending to be compiled from the shaky footage created by the movie's characters. Overall we both had a great time with this movie. It was a good length (1 hour 39 minutes) and scary.
Only because this style of movie has been done before, I had a little trouble early on buying into the excuse for the characters gathering all this footage but after about fifteen minutes I got over it and let go. I can tell you right now that not too much happens in this movie. Most of it's scare power is fueled by anxiety fostering sound effects and subtle shots of 'creepy.' Even knowing that ahead of time, the movie can give you the creeps.
This kind of movie benefits a lot from a public viewing. I'm not sure how good of replay value this movie has, but for a mildly crowded late-night Halloween showing it was perfect for us.
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