![]() ![]() Fredrichs immediately has a sense of foreboding upon entering their home, and apologetically leaves despite Katie and Micah's desperate pleas for him to stay and help. Fredrichs agrees to make a second house call. ![]() Abrams is abroad when Micah finally agrees to invite him, so Dr. The next night, the bedroom door slams itself shut and is accompanied by violent knocking and banging. In the attic, Micah finds a charred photograph of a young Katie previously thought to have been destroyed completely in a house fire. Later, inhuman footprints are left in baby powder placed on the hallway floor by Micah. While the two are out of the house, a wind blows through the living room and the Ouija board's planchette moves on its own before a small fire erupts and extinguishes on the board. Katie, already irritated by Micah's making light of the situation, becomes further infuriated when Micah brings home a Ouija board after Dr. She ultimately does not remember her behavior the following morning. The strange occurrences in the middle of the night soon involve Katie awakening to spend several hours standing by the bed and staring at a sleeping Micah, and going outside to sit on the backyard swing. He manages to document several phenomena such as objects moving on their own, lights and televisions switching on and off, and sounds ranging from voices and growls to footsteps and loud thuds. Each night, Micah leaves the video camera on a tripod in their bedroom to record whatever might be occurring while he and Katie sleep. Abrams, a demonologist, and Micah's reluctance to do so leads to frequent arguments between the couple. ![]() Fredrichs also recommended the two contact Dr. Fredrichs, a psychic who assesses that they are being plagued by a demon which feeds off "negative energy" and is intent on haunting Katie no matter where she goes. Attempting to communicate with the entity is strongly discouraged during a visit to their house by Dr. When Katie suggests the ghost has followed her to their two-story tract house in suburban San Diego, California, Micah buys a video camera in the hopes of capturing paranormal activity on film, a project that will ultimately last three weeks. Strap in for terror, or at least a steady, crushing, existential dread, as Mike, Kevin, and Bill go up against the film equivalent of sitting next to a talkative moron on a 6-hour flight: Paranormal Activity.Micah, a day-trader, and Katie, a student who claims that a ghostly entity has haunted her since her youth, are a young couple "engaged to be engaged". Oh, and one time they go outside and Katie sits in a chair. By the way, get used to watching Micah and Katie sleep, because that's pretty much the whole movie. Whatever it is, it's up to no good, pulling off masterful scares such as moving keys off the counter, and gradually shifting a door while Micah and Katie sleep. ![]() Katie carries some baggage, namely some sort of ghost, or demon, or.well it's not really clear. In any other film she would stand out as a shrill, unlikeable person, but in the twisted world of Paranormal Activity she is borderline tolerable. In a hard-to-swallow supernatural twist, Micah has somehow acquired a live-in girlfriend, Katie. The kind of guy who spends his free time at the mall, conspicuously checking out 16-year olds while chatting loudly on his Bluetooth headset about hair gels. It recreates the experience of being stuck in a room with Micah (pronounced MEEK-uh, or DOOSH-bag), the kind of guy you immediately want to start punching and never stop punching until the punching is done. Paranormal Activity succeeds by putting the viewer in the most deviously terrifying position ever imagined by a filmmaker: captive audience to an idiot's home movie. ![]()
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