Friday, October 22, 2010
Film Your Actively Paranormal Weekend at the Movies
Posted by Jesse Hassenger on Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Lo and behold, Paranormal Activity's wide expansion pretty much beat the tar out of Saw VI. This hasn't encouraged studios to try out new horror movies, of course; it has encouraged Paramount to rush a quickie Paranormal Activity 2 into production, in a bizarre effort to become the next Saw (although: from a studio's perspective, you could do a lot worse than a six-movie series that has probably never failed to turn a profit) (in fact, from a studio's perspective, I'm not sure you could do better). No one seems to be working ahead and figuring out how to challenge the burgeoning Paranormal Activity franchise, which will probably do some business this year based on the genuine freakiness of the first movie, but after that, who knows. In any case, the short trailers make Paranormal Activity 2 seem at least ten times more palatable than Blair Witch 2 in that they haven't jettisoned the gimmick that made the first movie so creepy. Then again, will that gimmick be scary a second time around? Probably, but not as much. Either way, prepare yourselves for Paranormal Activity 3-D, and several more years of hoping for another good Halloween-season horror movie. And tune in next weekend, for my puzzled and puzzling anticipation of Saw VII-D.
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