My friend told me not to see the movie Paranormal Activities (when it comes out). Is this movie haunted?

She emailed me this from some blogger site. Has anyone else heard anything about this? I love horror films, but I have to admit I am a little frightened of ghost and stuff.





((...imagine a scary movie that scares you so bad that a little post TV watching will not get it off your mind, all the covers in the world can't shield and protect you, and forget about daylight... Imagine a scary movie that makes you want to move out of your house! -I should have just wrote this warning in the first sentence, but I wanted to build up to the warning, to make you think. To make you believe. To let you believe! The new scary movie is called ';PARANORMAL ACTIVITY'; Beware of this movie! Please. I warned you. Please, read on.





Okay, okay, now read carefully. This super low budget ';Blair Witch...'; type movie came out Friday September 25, 2009. And like Blair Witch it only had a few screenings (16 different cities, to be exact). But unlike Blair Witch... there is a twist. No not a twist within the movie. Ah, how can I explain this. Ok. -google the movie ';Paranormal Activity'; to see the trailer and more info. In the trailer they show an audience reaction to the screening of the movie and man do they look terrified. But this isn't the original trailer that was released a few weeks ago. It was changed. If YOU saw the original trailer (which is very similar to the one on the site now) you would have saw several spirits hanging around the audience members. Some are unclear, but one entity stands out. It's a tall dark man spirit that sort of stares at the camera as if it knows we are watching... eerie. I know, I know, you think it's just a promotional gimmick, but there's more. Keep reading!


On the website it has all kinds of information on the movie, though the info is vague no one seems to question the director or the actors. True, some of the producers drop big movie names and etc. But come on read between the lines! Okay, I'm getting off topic. Let's just say a friend of a friend saw the original trailer and thought it was a clever promotional gimmick, being a lover of horror films, this friend researched more and dug deeper... This friend found something wrong! If you go onto the website at the top of the site there is a yellow box titled ';Demand It';. When you click on it, it takes you to another website. This is a legit website, it's a way to promote events in your area, through way of petition. Anyway you go on this site, you find your city, you click on it, and then your city is in the running to have ';Paranormal Activity'; played at major theaters there. Come on! This movie has already gotten major positive reviews, even with it's few screenings. So, give it a couple of months it will be in major theaters, in major cities anyway... So why use the petition?? Yeh, this is what my friend of a friend thought, so he/she researched on, and even teamed up with someone who dabbles with computers (if ya know what I mean). And together they found some hidden links in the petition website (though it is a legit website), when questioned this website didn't appear to know about the hidden links. They even did there own search and found nothing. Yesterday friends of friends checked the site again and the hidden links were there. But when checked only a few hours ago the links were there. It appears they seem to come and go in a timely fashion, but certain computers can only find certain links, and... I'm blabbing. The site needs to maintain the hidden links because the ';Paranormal Activity'; petition is linked to a contract. What? Yes, and this contract says that the residents of certain cities agrees to have paranormal activity released in a theater near them. If you noticed I did not put paranormal activity in capital letters or quotation marks! That's because when you click on this petition you also have signed a contract giving X,Y, and Z permission to release (again) paranormal activity (AKA ghost, poltergist, spirits, etc.) into your local theater. Okay, okay so these ';people'; will go to your theater with their paranormal tools and have seances, and such... and release ghost in the theaters.





But how and why? It's all in the contracts. Don't worry you're safe by reading this, you're safe by watching the trailer, and you're even safe by signing the petition. JUST DON'T GO TO A THEATER TO VIEW THIS MOVIE! There will be ';something'; with you watching. Ha, you think this is funny, or maybe you think this adds excitement to your horror movie experience. But wait! There was an incident is a city after the September 25th viewing of this film. A friend of a friend knew this girl that saw the movie and when she went home that night she had similar experiences as the actress in the film. And she just called this friend this morning to say freaky things have been happening even now. It's been two days since she viewed the movie, maybe it's just all in her head. ?





Someone (maybe the director and/or the actors)?(pure speculation of coursMy friend told me not to see the movie Paranormal Activities (when it comes out). Is this movie haunted?
Hi there. I think what's happening with the people who have viewed the movie and have ';experienced'; paranormal phenomena when they go home similar to that in the movie is actually a product of not only the hype but the excitement of the movie. Have you ever noticed how sometimes when you see something happen in a movie, you notice how it could easily happen in real life? This is simply an example of that. The person has watched the movie, and now everything that they are experiencing is going to gain the label ';paranormal';. 99.9% of the time, the activity they are experiencing is due to perfectly normal causes. While it may not be all in her head what she's experiencing, she's more likely to attribute ordinary activity to paranormal causes after watching such a movie.





To those who want to see the movie, I say enjoy! I heard it is a really good film, but the movie has yet to come to my area for me to judge that myself.My friend told me not to see the movie Paranormal Activities (when it comes out). Is this movie haunted?
Dang... this publicity scheme gets better and better!


What's the blog? links?





This is hooey..


They hope people will go see the movie after reading this stuff because:


a) they want to prove it's a publicity scheme


b) they want to prove nothing's going to happen


c) they hope something will happen


d) they think if they don't go see it now, their friends will think they're afraid.





I'd planned to see it a LONG time ago when Ryan Buell blogged about it on his MySpace.


It's a fun addition to the movie though.
Back in my day, movies like ';The Tingler'; would say they would have a nurse on duty at the theater. In case of hysteria or heart attacks.


Typically, the movie would not live up to the hype.


Hopefully this flick will. I do love a good ghost tale.
You guys just need to go to church more often and get blessed by the spirit of the Lord. Whoever does not believe in the lord, will probably end up feeling like ';something ELSE'; is watching them.....





Just my ';realistic'; opinion.


Good luck!
Obviously the movie isn't haunted, this is either part of the publicity stunt to get you to see a nasty low budget movie or (more likely judging from the way it rambles on) some nutter has written some loony blog about it.
It's called ';Creating a Buzz'. They do this for all scary movies.





It's perfectly legal, and it's a practice that goes all the way back to when they were marketing ';The Exorcist'; in the 70s, there were magazine and movie articles saying how people who saw the movie got possessed themselves.





It's BS. We're at an age where you need to take ';public opinion'; with a grain of salt, it's all staged.
What they said. ^ It's just for publicity. But if that WERE true, I'd go watch it! I like experiencing paranormal things.