Paranormal Activity

Last night, well this morning, I actually went to go see paranormal activity 2. I am sure everyone has heard of the movie Paranormal Activity, most has gone to see it and most were waiting for the second one to come out. Well I am not going to talk about the second one because yall have to go see yourselves but yall know the theme of a demon being in the house and how it tries to possess the girl. Well the second one has the same idea but it has a bit of a twist to it because events start happening during the day also, not just the night. This movie is pretty scary and would definitely recommend watching it, especially at the theater, unless you got some good surround sound at your house. The second movie does have to do a little with the first one because it actually happens before so if you can watch the first one if you haven’t already done so.
Well, in Paranormal Activity (the first one), it is about a couple, Katie and Micah, that have just moved in into a suburban tract home. After a couple of days of moving in they start getting disturbed by what appears to be a supernatural presence. Since Micah is into cameras he decides to buy a camera and haves it on through the whole moving hoping to get some evidence of the haunting on film. What they did not expect to capture were some terrifying occurrences. These events mostly happened at 3 A.M and it just starts by them hearing footsteps and hearing noises downstairs but every time Micah went down to see what is going on, he would find something moving. From there on it gets intense on how the demon even grabs Katie by her leg and drags her. Katie explains how even when she was little her and her sister used to be scared at nights because they felt something was haunting them and it seemed like it had came back for her. At the end, she becomes possessed and kills Micah and nothing is known from her. I personally think the first one was scarier than the second one but you guys tell me your opinions.

Are you crazy?

A lot of people had told me about the movie “The Crazies” and how it was so good and scary and that I should go see it so I did. It was definitely not what I expected to see for such a great movie. It was like the movie “I am Legend” where there is a disease and people start going crazy and start killing people. So for those who have not seen this movie, it came out on February 26, 2010 and is rated R for bloody violence and language. Now let me tell you guys a little more of the background of it. David Dutten is the sheriff of a town called Ogden Marsh; this town is a nice little town with happy citizens (nothing new right?). It all started one day during a school baseball game, a man comes with a loaded shotgun. Then, another man locked his wife and young son in the closet and burnt down his whole house. Within days, the whole town was transformed into an asylum; people who once had lived like normal people were turned into blood-thirsty killers that would hide in the darkness with guns and knives. The government soon got involved and the separated the infected people with the non-infected people and put them in different areas with the tension of killing everyone. At the end the come to find out that the airplane that had fallen in the river had contaminated the river, so everyone that had drank water that came from that river had become infected with this weird disease. The government wanted to kill everyone because since this was such a small town, no one would know if something happened to it and the government didn’t want this crazy news going into other towns just because of their mistake. Not only is this movie like another “I am Legend” were some random disease comes and kills everyone but like the movie “The Happening” where the plants kill people. It has to do with nature and diseases killing the human race. To those who have seen this what you think of this movie?

whats up with that?

So I noticed that most of the horror movies that are out or are coming out soon are about demons, whats up with that? Like is there nothing really else that they can think of? I remember that back in the old days we had pretty good scary movies that didn't have to do with the devil or demons such as "The Boogeyman" which was just a part of your imagination but still creep you out. Or the "Nightmare of Elm Street" even though it wasn't the movie wasn't really scary, just the fact that you couldn't get away from Freddy because he was in your dreams and there was nothing you could do about it, would just freak me out. Also, ghost movie just has "Thirteen Ghosts" which were some good movies that would just keep you thinking and off your seat, specially when you're 12. But now, it was about demons and being possessed which can be freaky because that can actually happen to people like the movie "The exercism of Emily Rose" which was based on a true story. But now, they just think about some stupid things that make us say "really? you didn't see that coming?" I saw the movie "Case 39" which just came out on Oct. 1th 2010. It is about this lady, Emily, that works as a family services social worker that gets a case of a 10-year old, Lilith, which supposedly gets abused by her parents. Emily really gets into this case and decides to talk to the Lilith more and give her her number to call if she ever needs her. One night the little girl calls Emily and tells her that she needs help, so Emily drives to her house with her friend so help, and find her parents putting her in the oven trying to burn her to death. Lilith is taken away from her parents and Emily decides to take her in until the right foster family comes along, this is when Emily sees that Lilith is not the little innocent girl that she seems...
Friends of Emily is start dying out of a sudden and they all relate with Lilith some way or another. We come to find out that Lilith is a little demon child and has special powers to kill people. Emily tries to get help from Lilith parents by visiting them at the asylum but Lilith ends up killing them too, her only help. Do I recommend this movie? Enh not really is it kind of stupid but everyone as their own opinions

"Kids"

A few days ago, I decided to watch the movie “Kids” for the ENC 1102 Project 2 on Rogerian Argument because I feel that this movie involves a lot of controversial issues. This movie came out in July 1995, rated NC-17, about one hour and 30 minutes long, is rated B+ by the critics, it is drama genre, and was directed by Larry Clark, who also directed “Wassup Rockers” (2006), “Destricted” (2005), and others. Well this movie is about a 17 year old skateboarder named Telly, who lives only to get laid. Telly lives in a community with poverty and bad parenting, which makes him do whatever he wants. With no one watching over him, he goes around deflowering 14 year old girls just for pleasure. Him and his friend Casper walk around New York and steal from stores buy and smoke weed with their other buddies and even beat up some random guy with their skateboards just because the guy got in Casper’s way. While all this is going on, one of the girls that Telly slept with in the past, name Jennie, went and got tested for HIV and her results came out positive. Jennie goes looking for Telly the whole movie to tell him and also to stop him from being able to pass it to someone else. Jennie ends up going to a club that Telly was suppose to go to and takes some pills from her friend and starts to feel out of it. At this time Telly was sweet talking to another girl that he wants to get with and goes to his friend’s party with her. At that party, everyone is underage drinking and even 10 years old are smoking weed on the couch. Once Jennie gets to the party she finds Telly having unprotected sex with a girl. Jennie ends up passing out on the couch and Casper ends up raping her. By the end of the movie five people end up HIV positive with only one person knowing it.

This movie can have a very strong message because it shows controversial issues that are still happening in America, such as, bad parenting, living with HIV, rape, underage drinking, and taking drugs. Some people think this movie is too strong but I believe that the truth should never be sugar coated.