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So the boyfriend and I watched this the other night based on roshiq's rec, and I have to say THANK YOU ROSHIQ FOR THIS REC.
Honestly, I don't care of this movie is a shameless knockoff by a production company who is in the business of shameless knockoffs (their catalog includes gems like AVH: Alien vs Hunter, The Da Vinci Treasure, The Day the Earth Stopped, The Terminators, 2010: Supernova, Death Racers, Transmorphers: Fall of Man) because, quite frankly, Paranormal Entity is really damn good. Seriously.
I'm not sure if I'd say that it was necessarily overall better than Paranormal Activity, BUT there were a few things that it did do better...
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One of the complaints that I had about Activity was that they never left the house... I understand the concept that it is SHE who is haunted and that they can't escape, but I think that it would have been more successful if they had SHOWN this instead of just TOLD the audience this... Entity, however, DOES pull the haunted female out of the house to demonstrate that she is not safe anywhere, which I thought was great and should have been in Activity as well. Then again, he supposed haunting outside of the house was delivered to us completely through exposition; it would have been nice to actually SEE her being haunted in the hotel room instead of having the ordeal described to us by the Mother; that, to me, says that Entity didn't have the special effects to drag her out of the bed, where Activity did.
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I thought that Entity was just as successful with creating horror, suspense, and a pure sense of dread. I don't care that it was a knockoff, I thoroughly enjoyed myself while gripping my boyfriend's hand in fear. Activity definitely had a better ending (I got the feeling as though Entity either ran out of budget and/or gave up. The ending was a bit too sudden for me).
I definitely recommend this movie.
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