The Reel Rejects - PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:36 Tara and I just watched paranormal activity, which means we're not going to be sleeping well for a very long time. So make sure if you're listening on Apple or Spotify, you give us five stars. We just went through hell and back again. And again, we're going to lose sleep over this. So you must give us five stars for that.

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Starting point is 00:02:14 I definitely look. Let's get the really quick stuff out of the way because I think we're going to agree with this. It can be very nauseating at times with the found footage type of style. I understand what they were going for. I wouldn't even say it's a negative critique. Because I understood why they were doing it.

Starting point is 00:02:32 You know, we had to get into the frame of mind of putting this in, you know, in the documentary type of, you know, style that they were going with. So I get that. It's just, I just happened to be more calm, even though I was still stressed out when it was steady cam. Having said all that, I do appreciate the style that they were going for, for sure. And it's crazy, like having not been able to see like the entity or the ghost or the demon, whatever it was like it's a fascinating story and the fact that it's true um it's scary and i told you to remind me but i kind of did remember myself so we're good um i had a paranormal

Starting point is 00:03:13 activity i think myself so this was probably right around the time of this actually um i was sleeping in my room and all of a sudden i didn't know where because i'm a very light sleeper so i like hear and notice things really easily my computer chair which is good 15 feet away i'm nowhere near where i could accidentally knock it down it literally again it's a strong chair too it's like the chairs we're on right now just tips over on its own i was freak the shit out and it's not like it was a windy night or a it wasn't an earthquake or something but i'm like what the shit was that nope and then i picked it back up and put it up and i didn't i've turned on the lights i put on musing i did not sleep well the rest of the night or for the next couple

Starting point is 00:04:00 nights but yeah yeah so that definitely i'm thankfully didn't happen again but that scared the shit out of me so um yeah this brought back all the memory you got a demon too please terror i don't want that to happen but uh but that uh this brought back that memory for sure um again uh interesting scary concept and again the fact that it's real um i think the actors did a great job. I don't think it is real. Well, I mean, they said that Mika's where, I mean, what, what? Well, yeah, but I think that, that has to be for the movie, right?

Starting point is 00:04:37 I think, here's what I think. I think Greg is pulling one on us and he's like, it's a documentary. And I think that these people are not real. Okay, I hope you're right. You're probably right. I think they're actors and this was a very well-made film is what I think. Yeah, yeah. You mean, I know they're actors. I just mean, like, they're not portraying real characters, right? Right. I'm thinking that they made up the story. I hope you're right.

Starting point is 00:05:06 They pulled it from, I mean, imagine it. I'm sure there's a lot of online stories from like what you're saying from that paranormal stuff. And then they wrote this script and then. Right. You're probably right. And I hope that's the case. I mean, I don't want to believe this shit can be real. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But yeah. Yeah. But yeah. But yeah. Would you think, I mean, we'll go into the acting and all that from my perspective. What did you think of the movie? Oh, my God, you guys. I mean, I am exhausted because I was so tense the entire time.

Starting point is 00:05:36 Like, my shoulders were up. I was like, every time I said I hate this movie, I don't actually hate it. I just hated the feeling that this film was giving me from start to finish. It's very, very believable. And it sets you up to be like, sort of. like comfortable with these two characters because they're very believable and then once

Starting point is 00:06:01 it when it goes to steady cam I'm grateful because I did give me a headache and it did make me nauseous but once we get to like those locked off shots it's amazing

Starting point is 00:06:17 how little can happen but how intense I am on the inside thinking I might die at some point while watching this because I'm just so scared and every move that they made I think in this movie was subtle in a way that maybe when you're writing it on in in a script that you're thinking will that be enough right like you're going to make a film you're like well first it's going to be the door it's going to go and then it's just going to be we're going to just deal with noise and it's a

Starting point is 00:06:49 scream and then it's going to be the powder and the feet and then it's going to be movement under the sheet and then now she's sleepwalking right you would not you really assume that you're like i don't know it's like kind of subtle kind of large we're doing it all revealed in the same shot mind you this is not like wow we're taking big cinematic risks we're shooting it the same and it delivers we're not doing anything special we're just staying in that locked off shot and we're watching their life as they go through this demon crap and it delivers it totally kept me on the edge of my seat and i was terrified the entire time and i think that the actors all did a great job believable absolutely and i think it's um i thought it was smart writing to have the demonologists come again

Starting point is 00:07:44 and he was like oh this is not good i feel it i've got to go and you're like what in the actual F dude like what we hire you need to help us and he's saying and i like that he said if you leave it won't help and that he's like i got to get out of here because i'll make it more mad and then after she's bitten we kind of felt that coming where i was like is she going to turn into a zombie like right where we we saw that that witch on the computer is she going to turn into that right because that was close to her life and then she did i just thought that was It was a great story and it's really terrifying and I never care to watch it again. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them, which just makes my job easy.

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Starting point is 00:10:45 I know we're never going to watch it again, but you know what I would suggest would be the ultimate freaky way to watch this turn all the lights off in the house no and then turn up the volume i'm not saying for us i'm saying for our adoring fans who like to be freaked out um but i think you make some great points i think it kind of because it's such a supernatural film it kind of grounds it like those little subtleties that they added like slowly building up the suspense and tension where they start off with those noises and then the steps the lights the doors the doors the blankets, the powder, her being pulled out of bed. And then, like, also you had in the middle or at the beginning where she was just standing for two hours, light possession right there.

Starting point is 00:11:33 So it's like when the big chabang happens, it's like it's all been building to this. It kind of just grounds the whole thing too. Like, again, even though it's supernatural, kind of grounds it in reality a bit. So, and again, we mentioned it during the reaction, but it's what you don't see that scares the shit. out of you than what you can't see even though like seeing scary shit is obviously scary as well but in that same locked off shot because you know everybody's eyes going to be drawn to that freaking dark whole way that shadow too that shadow and then you're like oh my god it's just the subtle small things that really deliver that that you're like wow you don't really need much to get people

Starting point is 00:12:13 to be spooked out and you know and this movie does a good job of doing that with minimal camera work minimal minimal lighting minimal actors i'm sure this was shot on let me just guess they probably spent i i don't know how many days of shooting camera sound actors i don't know 10 000 i like 10 000 and this movie is probably made a a million dollars like yeah they're probably both millionaires if they're the ones who actually wrote it and produced it. I have no idea who wrote or produced it because we didn't get any credits.

Starting point is 00:12:55 Right, right. So, yeah. I was just kind of say, too, just to add to your incredible point, literally the whole film is in one location. Literally, the whole film. Yep. So.

Starting point is 00:13:07 It's very, oh my God, Greg, he, no. 15 grand, you were close. You were off by five. I said 10. How much did it gross, Greg? $193 million? Did it go to those actors? Like, did it go?

Starting point is 00:13:28 Did those actors write it? No, no. Okay. Yeah, a lot of people don't want to sleep, apparently. Oh, God. dollars it made still that's a good that is the one of the biggest like that's revenue right there that to me is like i've never heard of that that being made 15 000 and making that much that's a good profit on your investment yeah um yeah 15 plus 200 and then 9000 just walked in here

Starting point is 00:14:09 he moves the curtain it freaking yeah yeah when i saw them the corner of i'm like what the shit is happening right now i'm not gonna sleep for five days yeah it's all good we're gonna be on camera tomorrow like this oh my god this this was just terrifying great can't get mad at us if we kind of fall asleep on camera it's okay we got g fuel all right would you like some trivia do a few yeah all right the actors were not given scripts but were given guidelines on how to behave or what to discuss in their scenes oh smart so it was all improvised that's why it was all very natural i appreciate that i like that direction i think you get better for performance we're going to get two different stephen spielbergs in the trivia here.

Starting point is 00:14:46 Okay. And I did mention Poltergeist during the reaction once when I said they were here. Steven Spielberg convinced the

Starting point is 00:14:52 filmmakers to change the original ending. Oh, to make it, what was the original? I don't know. It just says to change the original

Starting point is 00:15:02 ending. Maybe, okay. Filming completed in 10 days. Dang. Y'all, $193 million. Yeah, 10 days.

Starting point is 00:15:11 That's a feature film in 10 days, but again, it's one location and it's all improvise and you're not you're not like it's there's no lighting involved like it's such a good idea yeah uh oren pelly shot the entire film with a home digital camera oh my god it keeps getting better stephen spilberg had to stop watching the film halfway

Starting point is 00:15:32 through on a home screen screener as he was genuinely spooked by the experience he completed it in daylight hours the next day and loved the film i wish i could have done that spilberg i'm over here the Reject's house. It's late at night. It's dark all around us. It's freaking terrifying. Did I mention to our fans like the scariest way to watch this is at night with all the lights off? Yes. So it's feel pretty like the one thing that we got going on here is lights on us. So you can see us. Yeah, exactly. Thank Christ. Katie Featherson and Mika Sloat. Slot received a reported $500 each for their performance in the film. Due to the success, due to the success of the film, they renegotiated the amount. Oh, good. Yeah, I would sue. Are you kidding?

Starting point is 00:16:17 They renegotiated for millions, I assume, because I have never seen either of those actors ever again. I don't think that they're probably working after this. If they renegotiated, they probably renegotiated for millions. And that's great. They probably retire because I don't recognize them. Your call, if we, I could read to you the original endings, but it's kind of long. No. Okay.

Starting point is 00:16:39 But they can go. You guys can tell us, like, in the comments, give us, like, give us, like, give us. In the little shorter sentences, because this is like a novel here. Go and read the novel, and you give us like the dumb, the dumb book version. What's that called? What's said that? Then spark notes. Thanks.

Starting point is 00:16:58 Is that what you were looking for? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, we're on the same level. Last one, the knife Mika is wielding when talking to Katie during the making dinner scene at the beginning of the movie is the same knife he is killed with in the alternate ending. Oh, she kills him with a knife. Yeah, because she just threw him. I promised last one.

Starting point is 00:17:17 In the original ending when the cops are heard entering the house downstairs, the light in the room across from Katie and Mika is seen turning on and then off after a few seconds. Oh, okay. So that might be one of the ending. The ending that they chose

Starting point is 00:17:31 with his body coming at us. Yeah, yeah. That's the most scared I've been. That was made it for a genuine reaction. I can't with this movie. Yeah. Well, anyways, guys. Good job, everybody.

Starting point is 00:17:48 Good film. Scared the shit of us. Let us know in the comment section. What did you guys think of paranormal activity? Did this movie make you lose sleep? What horror films have made you lose sleep? We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comment section. Do you want Tara and I to continue this series? Oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:18:03 There's more? Terror's like, no. There's more? Terror's like, no. Don't. Kill me. Let's stop it right here. Guys, if you've joined us and if you've continued to listen this far, we appreciate it.

Starting point is 00:18:14 Thank you so much. We'll see you guys on the next one. Take care. Sleep well.

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The Reel Rejects - PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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