oh god I heard about the original ending from my roommate

WHY DIDN'T THEY USE IT?

10/16/2009 10:41:28 PM

^original ending? what was it?

10/17/2009 12:00:50 PM

I thought the ending I saw yesterday was great. . .

10/17/2009 3:49:17 PM

VVV SPOILER VVV

VVV SPOILER VVV

VVV SPOILER VVV

copy-paste from http://www.newsinfilm.com/2009/10/14/paranormal-activity-alternate-endings-expansion/

In the original cut, Micah runs downstairs and is never seen again. Katie emerges covered in blood and wielding a knife. She curls up in the fetal position on the floor by the bed and proceeds to rock back and forth while the timestamp cycles (for three days, I heard - Duncan). Her friend calls and leaves a worried voicemail message on the answering machine, then stops by and screams (presumably after finding Micah). The cops show up and a policeman makes his way upstairs. Katie snaps out of her comatose state and in her confusion she advances with the knife, prompting the panicked police to fire on her.
Peli even shot a third ending where Katie returns knife in hand and in her possessed state slits her throat in front of the camera. Pretty gruesome stuff for a movie that barely includes blood before that moment.

^^^SPOILER^^^

^^^SPOILER^^^

^^^SPOILER^^^

10/17/2009 6:35:36 PM

^holy. freaking. crap. the slit throat scene sounds horrible! aack!

But, I liked the ending that the movie had.

10/17/2009 6:45:01 PM

absolutely awesome movie, i enjoyed the ending they used, same style horror as the original exorcist

10/19/2009 12:04:59 AM

Just watched it. Probably the best horror/suspense/scary movie I have seen this year. They do a good job of getting the audience to relate to the characters. They are believable. Ending was also pretty good.

Although it is similar to Blair witch in many ways, at least the camera isn't always moving. I'd say I enjoyed this film more than Blair witch.

10/19/2009 12:08:56 AM

ok i think i just shat myself watching the trailer

10/19/2009 9:34:36 AM

I kept getting this and 'The Fourth Kind' or whatever confused.

10/19/2009 9:52:24 AM

saw it the other weekend, pretty scary.

had a bunch of loud people in the back of the theater making commentary and really fucking up the scary parts, i was pretty pissed. kinda ruined the movie.

the girls acting was a little off at times, but for this budget pretty good! the ghost specialist guy was a pretty bad actor, but when he came that last time it was hilarious what he said.

the end was pretty messed up.

10/19/2009 12:40:27 PM

I came in here just to say that I did not enjoy the film. It wasn't scary.

SPOILER!

























The "demon" shuts doors, pulls bedsheets, walks in powder, messes with a Ouija, and then the female lead gets possessed by the demon and kills the husband. The final scene is probably the only jump-worthy moment in the film. Unfortunately, the trailer showed the final scene.



















Carry on.

10/19/2009 1:26:34 PM

Now that all the spoilers are rolling out, guess I need to stop reading the thread until I get a chance to see it

10/19/2009 1:29:05 PM

It's in all the major markets now. I'm sure they'll do another roll-out next weekend.

10/19/2009 1:38:42 PM

so is the final scene the part where the body is thrown towards the camera? cause if it is, thats pretty stupid for them to show in the preview/trailer

10/19/2009 2:00:40 PM

yes and i agree

10/19/2009 2:04:00 PM

if you honestly found this movie scary then you are a giant pussy. This movie was a crappy rehash of the Blair Witch Project with a different setting. Just a boring, stupid movie.

(as a side note, I spent $9.50 to see this tonight at North Hills. It's garbage like this that makes me download movies. I am tired of spending my hard earned money on shit like this.)

10/19/2009 10:44:46 PM

My buddy saw it tonight. This guy is a hardass. Pretty even keel guy. He called me, and said that this was by far the scariest movie he's ever seen. I'll give you some quotes of his:

"My calves, abs, and pretty much whole body was aching from being so tense"
"I don't know how they were able to capture something that terrifying on film"
"I went to take a piss, and there was no aiming in the bathroom, piss went everywhere, I couldn't stop shaking"

He was honestly about to come hang out at my place because he was by himself a home, he felt like his heart rate was still really high, an hour after getting back to his house.

Guess I'm gonna have to see it now.

10/20/2009 12:20:11 AM

What the fuck. Really people?

We are getting this scared from a rehashed Blair Witch Project?

I watched the trailers, and after a solid score on rotten tomatoes I was pretty excited about the idea of an actual scary movie, or something original at least.

Paranormal Activity was neither. It was a huge disappointment. It is EXACTLY like the Blair Witch Project. NOTHING happens for the first 30 minutes. Then a little something happens and you start to get excited. But nothing ACTUALLY scary happens for the first hour. Then some weird and fucked up shit happens. People's emotions run wild. Cue "what the fuck!" ending.

Scary, tense, believable, good... these can be debated.

Anyone that is like, "this is the scariest shit ever" needs to watch a lot more horror movies and find some balls.

10/20/2009 2:31:50 PM

Quote :

"This guy is a hardass."

yorue friend is a GIANT pussy

my gf is scared to death of spiders and gore and spooky stuff, she never flenched, not once.

the movie is STUPID and not scary at all, its soooo predictable.

not worth your time or money in my opinion.

your friend is a huge scaredy cat

10/20/2009 5:44:37 PM

your friend is, indeed, a giant mangina

10/21/2009 12:23:25 AM

hey you guize arent nyce

10/21/2009 2:02:55 AM

Saw it last night...

I was one of the few people who got spooked from Blair Witch, still do if I watch it today. I am one of those 'ghost hunters' fans and I watch all the psychic detective shows because I think paranormal stuff is fascinating and exciting (but I do not watch the stupid 'fear' shows where they throw a family in an old castle). Amityville is one of the coolest BOOKS and the emily rose movie is pretty cool. So I was pumped to see this movie, it was right down my alley. I tried not to read too much because I didn't want to spoil any ending, and I really wanted to make sure I didn't keep thinking 'this is only a movie' like I do all the time with the slasher horror movies.

My bf and I went last night and luckily no one was really loud in the audience. But by the end of the movie I was not freaked out in the least. You were really able to connect with the couple, but there was too much information given and not enough focus or explanations. Leaving the theater I was hesitant to apologize to my bf for dragging him out to a movie that didn't live up to its hype.

But when I was finally about to say 'sorry..' he turned to me and said (with his eyes real big and his face paler than normal), 'that's the scariest movie i've seen in a long time.'

WTF? I can't sit through Halloween, Saw, or even blair witch like he can, but this movie made him creep out? I don't understand it.

10/21/2009 9:30:00 AM

It wasn't horrible, but I think I overhyped it and ultimately was a bit let down. I pushed it on all my friends since the first trailer leaked and the viral marketing started. They all loved it though, so I guess that's good.

10/21/2009 1:22:25 PM

For me, I wasn't going in expecting to be scared, so it didn't have that hype to live up to. I was going in expecting it to be comical in how they tried to scare the audience, and while it sometimes did that, the simple effects to portray the demon were very cool and well thought out. I was satisfied with it, overall.

Quote :

"These endings may end up on the DVD along with other deleted scenes. Peli said they shot over 70 hours of footage, so when the disc hits shelves there will probably be a packed version with lots of extras."

[Edited on October 21, 2009 at 3:52 PM. Reason : footage]

10/21/2009 3:43:36 PM

Careful if you plan on showing the leaked DVDSCR to any noobs. It's not the same as the theatrical version.

10/22/2009 1:48:52 PM

how's that?

10/22/2009 6:20:06 PM

pretty annoying apparently.

10/22/2009 6:21:50 PM

so many snobs on TWW, it's cracks me up. If this movie doesn't scare you then you need to just stop watching horror films. period. and congratulations on being a bad ass.

10/22/2009 8:46:40 PM

^i soooo agree with u

10/22/2009 8:48:36 PM

Saw it tonight.

Definitely made me tense a few times.



Give it a look if you're into horror movies. I thought it was more Exorcist than Blair Witch.

10/23/2009 11:55:20 PM

Its the kind of movie that plays with your head. Seriously, when I got back home I was freaked out by my own house. Demons and shit are real. I don't fuck with Ouija boards either.

10/24/2009 12:12:32 AM

This movie = dogshit.

I was excited about it, too. Oh well.

10/24/2009 12:14:05 AM

PROFITABLE DOGSHIT.

still need to see it though. I'm excited.

10/24/2009 12:21:08 AM

im more freaked out by the upcoming "fourth kind" aliens shit freaks me out

10/24/2009 1:44:32 AM

i watched it last night and probably would've been better off sleeping alone, I was half expecting my gf to be standing over when a woke up 3 or for times.

10/24/2009 11:23:42 AM

Quote :

"Its the kind of movie that plays with your head. Seriously, when I got back home I was freaked out by my own house. Demons and shit are real. I don't fuck with Ouija boards either."

Dude, me neither! I would NEVER touch a Ouija board!!! eeek!

10/24/2009 2:04:25 PM

Quote :

"so many snobs on TWW, it's cracks me up. If this movie doesn't scare you then you need to just stop watching horror films. period. and congratulations on being a bad ass. "

There are also a lot of uptight pussies on TWW.

I thought the movie had potential. A few times I was tense and liked where it was going, but it never really escalated past that. I was continually disappointed, I kept thinking it was going to get rad but it never did.

10/24/2009 3:36:37 PM

movie would have been a little scarier if they didn't telegraph every single scare with that bass tone. It would have been far scarier if it had been silent. Hearing the low growl or whatever just told me something was coming. And they did it every fucking time.

lame movie.

10/24/2009 4:24:52 PM

^yes.

10/24/2009 7:18:18 PM

End on the DVD Screener definitely blows.

10/24/2009 7:21:31 PM

I only really jumped once, and that was when the guy was thrown at the camera (I hadn't read any spoilers or anything and I honestly thought it was just gonna be her popping out)

I did think it was scary though... because I really feel like that shit can happen....

10/24/2009 8:55:16 PM

What a disappointment. Not sure this was the "scariest movie of the decade". Sure it's scary in the sense that these things probably happen to people, but to sit there and watch...I was so bored, especially for the first hour when NOTHING happened. This movie is all hype.

10/24/2009 10:16:42 PM

Quote :

"movie would have been a little scarier if they didn't telegraph every single scare with that bass tone. It would have been far scarier if it had been silent. Hearing the low growl or whatever just told me something was coming. And they did it every fucking time."

So if I understand correctly . . .
The bass tone was your first indication that something was gonna happen? Are you sure it wasn't that they stopped pressing the fast forward button?
/facepalm
Of all the things to complain about...

A lot of the people's reactions to this movie just really make me hate the standard Holywood movie-machine more. If the effects aren't directly in your face and overwhelming, people just don't get it.

--------------------------

This movie is very niche. It goes for the realistic approach where moviegoers get close into the minds of the main characters and experience what they supposedly do. Retards that say "nothing happened" wouldn't be saying that if that shit happened to them in real life.

Those people simply were not drawn into the movie as intended by the director. This is required to enjoy the movie. That being said, there is nothing wrong with those who did not enjoy it. As I said, it is very niche. That doesn't make this a bad movie.

10/25/2009 12:53:17 AM

This movie must be making mad profit though. I think it took like $11k to make it and only had three actors.

10/25/2009 2:18:14 AM

^^thats what ive been telling everyone who has asked


its a good movie if you can immerse yourself in it

10/25/2009 2:21:46 AM

I was choking on the stench from the person next to me that reeked like a mentholated cigar being put out in an ashtray that's filled with Fruit Stripe Gum.
The people in the audience wouldn't shut the fuck up. Ever.
The end scared me, the part where she's dragged out of bed and down the hall kinda scared me, and where she stands over the bed creeped, me out but that's pretty much it.

I then had to go to work right after that at 2AM in the dark and give a cat some meds.
I made saps852 come with me b/c I was being a puss

10/25/2009 1:07:17 PM

I thought it was great.
The alternate ending thats up on the torrents isn't as good imo. Was there anything after the last frame with words? I didn't want to leave, but nothing happened after 30 seconds of black screen.

10/25/2009 10:23:57 PM

There wasn't anything afterwards.

10/25/2009 10:48:47 PM

No, the credits were amazingly short.

Quote :

"I was choking on the stench from the person next to me that reeked like a mentholated cigar being put out in an ashtray that's filled with Fruit Stripe Gum. ... I made saps852 come with me b/c I was being a puss "

Called out

10/25/2009 11:11:52 PM

hahahhahhahaha
the person screaming behind me:
"I WOULD LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE WAS ONLY 2 HOURS OF DARKNESS AND HAVE THE HOLY BIBLE AND HOLY WATER WITH ME AT ALL TIMES"

10/26/2009 4:10:40 PM