{"id":192,"date":"2025-07-18T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:30:49","slug":"paranormal-activity-oren-peli-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Oren Peli, 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thugbass.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/untitled-1-copy1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thugbass.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/untitled-1-copy1.jpg?w=572&amp;h=313\" alt=\"Untitled-1 copy\" class=\"wp-image-5774\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was just thinking about how truly creepy Bong Joon-ho\u2019s \u201c<em>Salinui Chueok<\/em>\u201d (aka \u201c<em>Memories of Murder<\/em>\u201c) was. Then I thought about how scary \u2018<em>Paranormal Activity<\/em>\u2018 wasn\u2019t (<strong>NOTE<\/strong>: I mean the original, not the new one \u2018<em>Paranormal Activity 24<\/em>\u2018). I watched it at 3 a.m. just to maximize the middle of the night willies with my easy to rattle ex. I even watched the alternate ending, the one that Steven Spielberg said \u201cThat\u2019s some scary shit right there\u201d about, and still\u2026nothing. I came away from the viewing with a pre-dawn feeling of boredom and a vague annoyance that I later realized was attributable to the fact that the movie looks like a porn film with no fucking, a real near beer experience cinema-wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lowest point (after the complete lack of nudity) was that the story was limited to two bad actors that had the worst and most non-sympathetic script possible. When the boyfriend stays even after the demon has apparently followed his cursed girlfriend and left a burnt photo from her childhood in the attic, I was really hoping his dumb ass would get shredded all gruesome like, that sort of behavior obviously deserving nothing else. What a maroon! I\u2019d have been \u201cYou know I love you baby but that demon\u2019s coming to kill your ass and I gotta go. Holler at your boy! Bye!\u201d<br><br>[originally published 7-29-14]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just thinking about how truly creepy Bong Joon-ho\u2019s \u201cSalinui Chueok\u201d (aka \u201cMemories of Murder\u201c) was. Then I thought about how scary \u2018Paranormal Activity\u2018 wasn\u2019t (NOTE: I mean the original, not the new one \u2018Paranormal Activity 24\u2018). I watched it at 3 a.m. just to maximize the middle of the night willies with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filmspiel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}