Wednesday, October 19, 2011

BACKGROUND


Paranormal Activity is a supernatural horror film that was written by Oren Phil. The first part of paranormal activity, actors Katie and Micah a young couple move into a two story house in San Diego, California. Katie claims that ghosts have been following her since childhood, and has followed her to their new home. Micah’s intension is that every night he will mount a camera in their bedroom and will try to find out if there’s a ghost actually following Katie. The first day they hear nothing but foot step and noises but as the days pass every night it starts getting worse and worse, which provokes Katie to hire a psychic name Dr. Fredrichs. His answer was that she’s not being followed by a ghost but by a demon, and that they should not have any communication what so ever with the demon. Micah doesn’t take it seriously and doesn’t follow Dr. Fredrichs advice, and start communicating with the demon with a Ouija board, Katie gets upset with Micah and lets him know that it’s not a game and tells him that she wants to leave the home. When they leave, the Ouija board starts moving itself and leaves them with a message. One night Micah sprinkles talcum powder on the hall way floor, when once again they are awakened by noises and see a non-human foot print and get convince and call Dr. Fredrichs back. When Dr. Fredrichs is inside the house he feels that he is not welcome and is making the demon angry, which makes him leave the house. The paranormal starts getting physical and drags Katie out of her bedroom with invisible force. They decide to leave the home but Katie’s response to Micah's that they will be ok.  The next night Katie came out of the bed and stands for couple of hours staring at Micah and then goes down stairs making loud noises causing Micah to go down stairs. As he is trying to talk to Katie, he lets out a cry of pain and the movie ends.
                The second part of Paranormal Activity goes a little bit back, but this time actors Kristin Katie sister and Dan brother in law are in it. Every room is completely trashed accepted Hunter's Katie's nephew's room. They discover that the only thing that was stolen is a necklace that Kristin’s sister, Katie, gave to her. Dan installs cameras throughout the house and including Hunter’s room .Martina is the housekeeper and nanny and tries to keep the bad spirits away. Ali, Dan and Kristin's oldest daughter starts doing some resources and finds out that a human can make a deal with a demon for wealth or power by forfeiting the life of the first born son, which in this case is Hunter.  The violence continues to get worse and worse and the family’s loyal dog a German Sheppard is attack by the demon causing the dog to have a seizure.  Immediately Dan and Ali take the dog to the vet, leaving Kristin and Hunter alone. Kristin notices that the light in Hunter's room is off and as she turns them back on she is dragged down the stairs by the demon. She breaks free but she gets attacked again and is dragged down to the basement where she is there for several hours. The basement door opens and Kristin appears and walks through the living room. The next day, Hunter Ali at home with Kristin, but she will not get up. Ali walks down and looks inside the basement and finds some scratches and notices that there’s a messages that says “mind”. Ali hears some noise and goes up stairs to Hunters room where Kristin is, and she aggressively tells Ali to not touch Hunter. After Ali shows Dan the video he immediately calls Martina, their nanny, to help them out. She prepares a cross that would pass the demon to a relative in the family. Dan thinking on saving his son and wife he does it, which in this case it’s Katie from the first movie. He goes to the basement and find Hunter, his son, and as he try’s to get him he is attacked by Kristin. He touches her with the cross causing her to collapse to the floor everything shakes and inhuman growls and roars are heard. Dan takes Kristin to bed and burns Katie’s picture. On October 9, Katie, already possessed, goes to Kristin and Dan’s house killing Dan and Kristin, and takes Hunter as his crying fades and turns into laughter.
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Paranormal Activity. Dir. Oren Phil. Perf.katie fatherson and Michah Sloat. 2007. Blumhouse Productions

Paranormal Activity 2. Dir. Tod Williams.Perf. Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, and Sprague Grayden. 2010. Blumhouse Productions
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