PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

Paranormal Activity is a 2009 mockumentary horror feature film written and directed by Oren Peli. The film revolves on a young couple, Katie (Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat), who are disturbed by a bizarre presence in their house. The feature film is presented through the camera set up by the couple to capture what is haunting them.

Katie and Micah are a couple who've just moved into a new home in San Diego, CA. Katie has an interest in the psychic and believes that nasty ghosts have been following her since early days, though Micah is not so easily converted. A psychic is called in and learns from Katie that she has been preoccupied by a ghostly creature since her youth. The psychic explains that the devil feeds off negative power, so the duo must do their best not to upset it or give it more energy by quarrelling with each other. Micah sets up a camera in the bedroom and every night it captures what happens as they sleep. On the first night nothing happens, but after this, weird but minor stuff begin to occur. The bedroom door moves by itself and the lights turn on in the hall on their own. Each night, when the incidents occur, a low monotonous noise is heard on the camera. One morning, Micah goes around the house with his camera and openly asks the evil spirit if he should get a Ouija plank. When he plays back the audio on his computer, a low inhuman roar is heard after he asks the question. Katie protests his intentions of getting a board and Micah halfhearted agrees not to buy one. Against Katie's wishes, Micah borrows a Ouija board to speak with the demon. He sets it up in the living room but Katie yells at him and they quarrel and go outside of the house before Micah can begin talking with the ghost. While they're gone, a queer wind blows through the living room and the plank begins to spell words on its own and catches on fire. A strange image is burned into the board when Micah and Katie return.

Queer things continue to happen to Katie at night, usually around 3:15 A.M. One night, Katie gets out of bed and stands right next to the bed for hours, doing nothing but glaring at Micah. After this, she goes downstairs. Micah wakes up, goes down, and finds her sitting outside on a swing. The next morning she does not remember doing this. Things begin to worsen One night, the couple hears a loud bang and then a door slams. They find nothing out of place except that a chandelier downstairs is swinging very slowly. After this, Katie then agrees to let Micah try one more experiment. But the things keep on growing suggesting the growing presence of the demon. At last the psychic fails to help them and Katie is finally haunted by the devil that hurts Micah

The movie received a limited release in several U.S. cities on October 9, 2009 and will have a nationwide release on October 16, 2009. Based on 81 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the picture has an overall approval rating from critics of 85%, with an average score of 7.2/10.It is like The Changeling  (1980, Peter Medak) &   The Haunting in Connecticut  (2009, Peter Cornwell) with an MPAA rating of R for profanity. One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also view free movies online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual movies of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can view for free.