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This is not Paranormal Activity... Its much worse!

posted 13 years ago by samchick1986
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What do you do when your family move in to a house and within 5 minutes of siging the lease and shaking hands with the estate agent shes found dead on your front garden? Still gonna stay? OK well what if that same day the movers are bringing furniture in to your new sweet family home and one of them "Acidently" falls down the stairs and also ends up dead? Ofcourse you stay put and start recording with a HD cam.

I dont understand why the director of this film felt he had to take the lead from the Paranormal Activity Farnchise with the Handycam/Horror genre. To me personally handycam horrors are made to give you the feeling that what you are watching is genuine footage and the events of the movie did happen. Unfortunetly The Lost Tapes fails with this and it all comes down to the acting. The relationship between the family members is unsettling its almost too awkward to watch. The main camera man is young teenage boy that could have been more asertive to his family with what is going on in the house but he just speaks when spoken to and wont even put up as much as a scream towards his parents when he has a freakish encounter with a closet door. I'll admit i was excited when i first heard about The Lost Tapes but to be honest they should of stayed lost.

The Amityville Horror:The Lost Tapes 3.5/10

[–] steven141081 13 years ago

Lol that movie you watched is called amityville haunting by asylum it wasn't the lost tapes because it hasn't been released yet

[–] dualexaust2002 13 years ago

you're reviewing the wrong movie. moron

[–] striderh 13 years ago

LAWLZ

'Don't let me die with that silly look in my eyes.'

[–] deadbodieseverywhere17 13 years ago

LoL! Aside from being on the wrong movie board (too funny), why compare it to Paranormal Activity? There were a boatload of found footage movies before PA.

"Why do people visit boards of movies they dislike to complain? Absolutely nothing else to do!"

[–] ilon 11 years ago

why compare it to Paranormal Activity? There were a boatload of found footage movies before PA.

That was the one overmarketed, like Blair Witch.

[–] deadbodieseverywhere17 11 years ago

That was the one overmarketed, like Blair Witch.

Response to an old post, awesome!

And yes, you're right. But the O.P. obviously just dislikes the P.A. movie(s) and picked it out the throw in a jab at it. There are lots of others (which are worse) they could have used.

"I'm not so sure this is, structurally speaking, such a good time for your, uh, buddies to drop in."

[–] ilon 10 years ago

You're right too

Horror is a difficult genre cause not everyone likes to be scared the same way.

I must say that I started liking the PA movies once the 3rd one got released. Then 1 and 2 grow quite a lot.

Old posts are like good wine.

[–] deadbodieseverywhere17 10 years ago

Agreed.

Unless its something really, really horrible that everyone can agree on (like Amityville Tapes), you can't really say something is universally not-scary. Some people get scared by P.A. while another might laugh at it but get scared by The Strangers. It's all different tastes

"I'm not so sure this is, structurally speaking, such a good time for your, uh, buddies to drop in."

[–] ilon 10 years ago

True.

Last time I got goosebumps was during Insidious. I can't think of any other movie from the last decade archieving that reaction.

Comedy deals with the same problem. That's why those genres have a hard time getting recognition, I think.

I can't understand why most of the time dramas get all the awards and praise, because it is usually the easiest thing to do. You would think that erudites would try to hype the more complicated storitelling devices.

Anyway... Good or bad, horror is my mojo.

[–] deadbodieseverywhere17 10 years ago

Agreed on Insidious. That and Paranormal Activity are the only two movies that really creeped me out since The House on Haunted Hill remake in '99. Of course I was younger then haha. Don't get me wrong, there have been good ones [Rec], The Tunnel, Hostel, etc. But they weren't scary (to me). Although the last scene in [Rec] definitely has it's creepy moments.

Horror movies can have such a great mythology to them, whereas most dramas are a one and done. But for some reason, like you said, they stand out to more people. I like all kinds of movies (horror being possibly my favorite genre, definitely tied with superhero movies as my favorite to discuss, except most horror fans have a way better, less childish conversation than superhero fans), but I hate most movies that have anything to do with the Oscars. Half of them nobody heard of or even wanted to see until this group of people decided "This is Oscar worthy" and all the fake artsy people go see it and agree it's king of the movies.

I gotta stop before I get too involved in what I'm writing lol.

"I'm not so sure this is, structurally speaking, such a good time for your, uh, buddies to drop in."

[–] ilon 10 years ago

I forgot about [REC]! Those last 15 minutes are an epic WTF.
[REC]3 kicked the saga out of my mind.

About the horror fan conversations, I think horror fans have to learn more on how to defend the genre because it usually gets bashed and overlooked. In the process the horror fan gets into the rest of genres and learns a lot about film. It barely happens the opposite way.
Superhero fans... well... superhero films are pretty much like Disney films (and nowadays Disney owns superheroes) made for kids (and everyone else, but I'm talking about the kids). Every generation has his superheroes. The Black Pirate, Flash Gordon, Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, X-Men, Superman again, Batman again, X-Men again Those movies have to exist for every generation. Nothing wrong about it. Some good, some bad, some full of meaning, some full of s*** :) Like every genre, but many in the crowd will be kids and kids need their time to learn how to have a conversation. I still have to