Now Available - Paranormal Activity!!!!!!!!!

[Conor]

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/paranormal-activity



Paranormal Activity succeeds by putting the viewer in the most deviously terrifying position ever imagined by a filmmaker: captive audience to an idiot's home movie.  It recreates the experience of being stuck in a room with Micah (pronounced MEEK-uh, or DOOSH-bag), the kind of guy you immediately want to start punching and never stop punching until the punching is done.  The kind of guy who spends his free time at the mall, conspicuously checking out 16-year olds while chatting loudly on his Bluetooth headset about hair gels.  In short, Micah is a super sweet dude. 

In a hard-to-swallow supernatural twist, Micah has somehow acquired a live-in girlfriend, Katie.  In any other film she would stand out as a shrill, unlikeable person, but in the twisted world ofParanormal Activity she is borderline tolerable.  Katie carries some baggage, namely some sort of ghost, or demon, or...well it's not really clear.  Whatever it is, it's up to no good, pulling off masterful scares such as moving keys off the counter, and gradually shifting a door while Micah and Katie sleep.  By the way, get used to watching Micah and Katie sleep, because that's pretty much the whole movie.  Oh, and one time they go outside and Katie sits in a chair.

Strap in for terror, or at least a steady, crushing, existential dread, as Mike, Kevin, and Bill go up against the film equivalent of sitting next to a talkative moron on a 6-hour flight: Paranormal Activity. 

NOTE: Due to the way the DVD was manufactured, we're unable to provide a RiffTrax Player (.riff) file for this track.





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[Thrifty]

Is this for the theatrical cut or the alternate ending?  The difference, if you're not sure:

Theatrical ending:  Katie throws Micah's body toward the camera, then stares at the camera before the final fadeout.
Alternate ending: Katie walks in after killing Micah and slits her own throat.

I'm assuming theatrical cut.

The movies are the same, with the only difference being in the last minute or two.

[Conor]

I'm assuming theatrical cut.

Yes.

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing.  We didn't address it in the intro.

[RVR II]

I must've got the right version cause it synced up Perfectly

Rendering now..

[Action Batch]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

[Thrashalla]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

Why do you think we're REALLY hiring on a new person?  :-P

[Action Batch]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

Why do you think we're REALLY hiring on a new person?  :-P

Don't you think it would be more fun to not answer anything and just continue to ask questions? :*

[RVR II]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

Why do you think we're REALLY hiring on a new person?  :-P

Don't you think it would be more fun to not answer anything and just continue to ask questions? :*

Is This gonna go round and round like your trippin avatar?!

[Thrifty]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

Why do you think we're REALLY hiring on a new person?  :-P

I figured that you were getting tired of answering those E-Mails, and you needed a whipping boy to take out your frustration on.

[Action Batch]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

Why do you think we're REALLY hiring on a new person?  :-P

Don't you think it would be more fun to not answer anything and just continue to ask questions? :*

Is This gonna go round and round like your trippin avatar?!

How do you know I went to see Avatar shroomin?

[Trumpy's Magic Snout]

Is this for the theatrical cut or the alternate ending?  The difference, if you're not sure:

Theatrical ending:  Katie throws Micah's body toward the camera, then stares at the camera before the final fadeout.
Alternate ending: Katie walks in after killing Micah and slits her own throat.

I'm assuming theatrical cut.

The movies are the same, with the only difference being in the last minute or two.

There's actually a third ending which I think was shown in British and possibly other European cinemas. Not sure if that'll be the one on the PAL DVD so I went ahead and ordered an NTSC one on import.

[RVR II]

I hope to most people this is a common sense thing. 

Uhhhh...how many emails do you get a day asking where is the DVD they bought?

Why do you think we're REALLY hiring on a new person?  :-P

Don't you think it would be more fun to not answer anything and just continue to ask questions? :*

Is This gonna go round and round like your trippin avatar?!

How do you know I went to see Avatar shroomin?

The lack of colors (other than black and white) kinda gave it away

[Darth Geek]

As much as I hated this movie (and am realy glad I didn't waste my time seeing it in the theater), I at least appreciate that it did come out and actually have a supernatural presence in it. There is nothing more irritating to me than when a movie tries to do the whole "is it real or is it all in their head" shtick. I came here to see something unusual, I better fucking see something unusual! And as boring as this movie was, and as much as it totally didn't make up for the slog to get to it, there was a supernatural occurrence in this movie.

Oh, and as bland as this movie was, because the last shot is of a person with a messed up mouth, I am now stressed out. Because that kind of thing gets to me. You have no idea how terrified I was during The Devil's Advocate!

[Thrifty]

There is nothing more irritating to me than when a movie tries to do the whole "is it real or is it all in their head" shtick.

Are you talking about that horror movie cliche where a bunch of weird, scary shit happens, and then they cut to a scene where everything is totally normal and nothing happened?  You know, where they play micro-"it was all a dream" scenarios over and over again.  That fucking drive me nuts.  If you want to DO something in a movie, DO it.  Don't just show the scene because you think it will look cool, then explicitly state that it never happened so that you can move forward without consequence.

[Darth Geek]

There is nothing more irritating to me than when a movie tries to do the whole "is it real or is it all in their head" shtick.

Are you talking about that horror movie cliche where a bunch of weird, scary shit happens, and then they cut to a scene where everything is totally normal and nothing happened?  You know, where they play micro-"it was all a dream" scenarios over and over again.  That fucking drive me nuts.  If you want to DO something in a movie, DO it.  Don't just show the scene because you think it will look cool, then explicitly state that it never happened so that you can move forward without consequence.

Yes, exactly.

And Snuffalupagus was real, dammit!