Paranormal Activity (Review)

Being a horror buff is like digging for gold. You have to sift through alot of dirt and rocks to find the shiny stuff. You get so conditioned to finding the crap that you begin to believe that there may not actually be any gold.
But when you find it, it's a feeling like no other.
Paranormal Activity, my friends, IS gold. In an age where horror movies SHOULD know better, we still get the mindless, numbing, run-of-the-mill bulls@#t that gives the genre a bad name. But Paranormal Activity is a revelation.
It was filmed in a week, with two actors and one camera.
It runs about an hour and a half.
It has no end credits.
It is the scariest movie I've seen in a long time.
Katie and Micah are a young couple living together in a nice house. From the beginning, you learn that Katie has been haunted by a demon since the age of 8. It seems to follow her wherever she goes. Strange things are starting to happen: footsteps, thumps, objects being moved, etc. Micah is understandibly fascinated with this, so he purchases a camera to document the occurences. And that is the basic framework of the movie.
People, this movie is money. The actors portraying Katie and Micah (which are their actual names) are so understated and real that you immediatly buy into their relationship. They just come across as an actual couple. The hauntings start out small, then increase in intensity.
Remember when just the sound of footsteps could make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up? This movie takes you back to that place. Inside all of us, there is a base fear of the dark and the unseen. So many times during the movie, I would sink in my chair because what was happening seemed so real and unstaged. The tension is there from frame one and only gets more unbearable. Whenever the night scenes started, a row of girls behind me would groan loudly. All you can do is brace yourself, because you have NO CLUE what will happen next. How the filmmakers achieved some of the hauntings is a miracle of simple special effects. It's a testament to the filmmakers that with such a small budget and cast, they were able to create a movie which will definantly be a horror classic. Some of the greatest horror films of all time (Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) were filmed with hardly any money or budget and...well.......we're still talking about them to this day, aren't we?
Please.
Go see it.
It's amazing.