Paranoid Activity 2 (2011) User Reviews

horrible

[ohsokool · 1/10 · 4 July 2011]

What can I say about this "movie"? I think it was about a guy who loved to carry his camera around the house, and document packing boxes, and getting stoned. One thing I enjoyed were the women. The main girl and her friend are hot! Certainly eye candy. There was a point where I thought all three would engage in a threesome after smoking that joint. Had I been the boyfriend, I certainly would have given it a shot.

I painted my wall over the weekend, and watching it dry was similar to watching this "movie". If you watch this with a friend, they will never forgive you so I suggest you watch it alone, or better yet just fast forward to the ending credits. Anyone with any sense would simply get out of the dang house once you start seeing things move around.

Utter and complete waste of time

[gentekos · 1/10 · 11 August 2011]

I actually had to browse my dictionary to find words capable of explaining how bad this movie is. Since "excellent" is the exact opposite of what this movie is, words like "failure" ,"imperfection" and "inferiority" should, in theory, be adequate to convey my feelings on this movie. Still, those words are not even close to sufficiently explain the amount of mental torture I endured while watching.

This movie is not scary, it is a manifestation of complete emptiness and boredom. Watching this must be pretty close to what Hell is supposed to be. At one moment I actually felt like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange", being forced to watch human depravity on the silver screen. Maybe this movie was made to deter the viewers from ever watching a movie ever again, if this is the case it is pretty close to achieving this goal.

If you ever get a mortal enemy or nemesis in your life, please don't just kill them. Force them to watch this movie over and over again for the rest of their life. I'm personally considering shipping a copy to Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, as this will significantly give them an option to raise the level of torture to a new level.

To the makers of this: I believe that all human beings have something they're good at in their lives. Movie-making is clearly not where you shine. Please, please find something else to do, before you bring the whole of the human race into a massive and fatal depression.

Worst ghost movie ever

[nightlybyday · 1/10 · 9 July 2011]

This movie is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring. I kept watching it telling myself it has to get better... something has to happen... but no, all the action in the movie takes place in the last thirty seconds and that's being generous. I watched this movie for free and I still feel like I've been ripped off.

One would think after two days of the moving stuff they would have called the psychic and said..."um ya know on second thought a hundred bucks to get rid of the ghost isn't such a bad deal afterall" these people are sosososososo dumb. All in all I'ld have to say the only good part of the movie was a very brief scene where the hot girlfriend has her butt hanging out of her short shorts.

Dear Director

[bladou · 3 July 2011]

Hi there,

I have no doubt someone of the cast will read this as they all signed up on IMDb to rate the movie - a 10 nothing less. By the way very clever tricks using a name close to another movie (adding a "2" while there's no previous movie is neat too) to promote your movie, maybe an opening to a career in marketing, that would be a wise move.

So I watched ... this with a buddy of mine (in Skype Dual Watching or SDW for us experts) and we loved it ! Well to be fair we didn't like the "movie" itself of course, we loved the laughter it got out of us, literally, even on a very bad day, say, someone close to you just died you could still laugh while watching this, it's that powerful.

The story, well, there's none so moving on.

The actors are exceptional, they can convey any situation with the wrong attitude. It seems none of them are able to express something, such as the main "actress" who smile (in a very creepy way) while under total stress - the main fear I would personally have is about her career though.

I'm sure everyone who seen this movie were on the verge of suicide but my director friend, if you persist to make films here are some heads up :

• Night vision is NOT a green filter, a simple DV Cam would have been enough and you'd have a free night vision too. - 15 mins shot are a very effective way to make people want to cut themselves but not a good thing in amateur cinematography. - A cigarette is not a joint and you don't get high in seconds and while we're at it train your actors to smoke if they need to - not that smoking is the only thing they have to learn to act better ... - A vengeful spirit who spend its time messing with dishes isn't the best way to build climax.

The list goes on and would ultimately cover the whole movie, there's nothing to save... Overall this is so horrible that Uwe Boll would look Oscar material compared to that.

PS : PLEASE STOP MAKING MOVIES OR GO TO FILM SCHOOL. THANKS.

Really, really boring.

[koshinbashi · 2/10 · 11 December 2011]

I have to admit I fast forwarded quite a few times, so I might have missed something, but I seriously doubt it.

Don't watch this if you like horror movies. The targeted audience is clearly people who enjoy watching other people sleeping or waiting around looking bored.

The nice thing about haunted house movies, even totally lame ones, is that you can usually spend the time admiring the beautiful old house with an interesting history. Not happening here though. We get a lame soulless modern house.The director was probably worried about scaring off his intended audience with something actually cool. We get a lame soulless modern house.

MAJOR SPOILER BELOW !!!

On the positive side, the ghost is very efficient once he realizes that he only has 30 left on the battery. Record breaking drowning ( less than 15 sec ) and a nice 6 second strangulation. I guess fake blood was one of the many things they couldn't afford.

This ain't the Asylum

[kbtoys100 · 1/10 · 18 May 2021]

The year 2011 was a big year for directors Kevin Clark and Manzie Jones, they made not one but two mock buster ripoffs, the first being Buried Alive (see Buried with Ryan Reynolds) and next being Paranoid Activity 2, which was meant to confuse fans awaiting Paranormal activity 2.

The pair figured, "hey, one guy and girl was good, how about we add a third hot girl to the mix!" then proceeded to scare us by making pots appear mysteriously on the kitchen floor for 75 minutes until some "action" happens in the last 3.

Look, I'm a found footage junkie, I've seen both the good and the bad. Paranoid Activity 2 has to rank as one of the laziest most inept cash ins in found footage, no, movie history.

To say this film is awful would be using the understatement of the century...

[DeaditeGaz92 · 1/10 · 16 August 2011]

I own a collection of low budget horror movies that are so bad that they are funny, this collection includes films such as Troll 2, Camp Blood, Killjoy, Don't Ring The Doorbell, Ghost Lake, Spiders 2 and many more...this film is worst than all of the low budget horror films that I own put together, this is by far one of the worst horror movies EVER made.

It's basically about these three students who move into this house, they have a party, a psychic turns up, tells them there house is haunted, the party finishes, a few pots and pans move into the same position for the next few days, we see a shadow what is meant to be a ghost, something else happens which I can't remember because I was most likely asleep at that point then the film FINALLY ends.

It is truly unbelievable how bad this film is, it must've been made on no budget what so ever, I mean what was the director thinking?! and as for the actors I have NEVER seen acting as bad as this before especially the psychic, where the hell did they get that idiot from?! Oh and another thing, there isn't actually a Paranoid Activity 1, so why is there a number 2 in the film's title?!

Watch it if you wanna have a laugh at a few people wasting their time making the worst film ever made, if you wanna watch a genuinely good horror film then go watch Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Grave Encounters, Halloween, The Shining, etc

0/10

Zero Activity.

[mrnasher · 1/10 · 16 March 2012]

Ever wanted to watch 2 hours of people cleaning their kitchen? Then this is for you.

Imagine playing The Sims where the only actions you have are: Smoke Joint, Clean Kitchen, Sleep on Livingroom Floor... now you have an idea what Paranoid Activity 2 is like.

Of course the plot is stolen wholesale from it's more famous namesake and they do manage to get in the relevant details setup early on but all pace and tension is lost in endless scenes without any hint of creativity.

The acting is stilted and the film maker seemingly had one spooky occurrence to film over and over and it didn't escalate at all. I would have given them far more credit for even trying to pull the most basic of practical creep-outs (things moved with wires, reversed shots, loud or spooky sounds, voices, screams, etc.) but instead they spent time on a poor digital shadow effect and glitchy camera interference.

Even the famous original did some cheap effortless scares and mixed things up to keep you guessing with a built up to finale.. that somehow got totally over looked here. As an exercise in film making it fails to ape its source and in 2 hours is unable to raise a 'kitchen scare' that Poltergeist managed in under 2 minutes.

No, it's not quite torture, but it's bad. Very very bad.

[degan001-1 · 1/10 · 1 October 2012]

I am a fan of low budget films. I like to see what young filmmakers (or even the pros) can pull off using a limited budget, relying on plot, good acting, intelligent use of a camera and either few sets, or the gorilla style of filmmaking (using locations without permission, getting the shot and getting out). I have been pleasantly surprised with films like Blair Witch Project, Basket Case, Silent Night Deadly Night, and my favorite low budget horror, Night of the Living Dead. I go into these films knowing I will not see great special effects, some acting will be passable at best, and if it's a found footage film, production values are intentionally low. And I am usually very forgiving towards the new filmmaker with a low budget. I didn't even mind watching "Dark Harvest". It was pretty mediocre, but at least I felt the director was making an honest effort, and I have a soft spot in my heart (or head) for bad B-movie horror.

Now that I have this out of the way, let me say that this is a bad film, even by Z-film standards. This film looks like someone got a camera for their birthday, tried to mimic some found footage films like Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity, and had a few of their non actor friends do some stuff for the camera. To be fair, some of the acting was OK at best. But the script was flat and amateurish and the directing was almost non existent. To be blunt, this looked like someone's home movie. It's the kind of thing no one should charge money for.

I watched this with a friend who also loves low budget horror. We didn't even have fun laughing at this. We just sat there feeling ripped off.

If I was told that this was a freshman film project, I might be more forgiving. Then I would say that he's got a little bit of a clue, but needs a lot more training and experience. Everybody starts somewhere. But this was marketed as a movie to either buy or rent, and that's where I get cranky.

A few of the reviews here are a little harsh. Watching this is not torture, it's just boring. It did not feel like my "intellect was being raped by elephants in barbed wire" as one reviewer colorfully put it. It just felt like a rip off. An audience should not have to pay to watch someone learn how to work a camera with a few of their friends running around the living room. Example of bad? After several scenes where the dishes are found stacked on the floor, the main character tries to set a trap buy tying string around the kitchen, tying it to the cabinet doors. You sit there for almost four minutes watching this guy tie string. Yes, this thing is THAT boring. And the opening conversation scenes go on forever! This is called filler, because they don't have 90 minutes worth of story to tell.

I will admit, there is one half decent special effect in the film that gives you an honest scare. I can't help wondering if knowing how to do this effect is what inspired this effort. Again, if this were cut down to 15 relevant minutes and submitted as a freshman level film project, I might even grade it a B-. But there's 90 minutes of this stuff and I paid money to rent it thinking it was a movie, not some 18 year old freshman's practice run with a camera.

If I really want to be cynical, I might notice that this film has a name very close to "Paranormal Activity 2" and it was released on DVD in close proximity to the release of that film. In this case, one might suspect that this film is a deliberate attempt to rip people off, hoping they will rent this by mistake. If this is the case then it's not your intellect that is being raped by the elephants in barbed wire. It's your wallet.

Wait a minute...

[Commander_Keen78 · 8/10 · 2 September 2011]

I wanna talk about the negative reviews I've been reading (and whom's meaning I totally respect) and I share the opinion of another reviewer saying something like: The people how saw blairwitch en paranormal activity and didn't like those, they are definitely not are going to like this one.

But I loved it. And that't just for one reason: I GOT SCARED! I know it's a total PA ripoff, but once you get over that fact and enjoy this movie for nothing more then what it is trying to be, then you've got yourselve a nice way of getting entertained.

The trick about all these "found footage" movies, is that you're gotta get in peace with the fact that you now these are no real tapes. But just try to forget that fact for a couple of hours; because that way you will enjoy this movie.

That's just what I did. I'm watching a horror movie a day, and that's makes you somehow immune from "getting scared". But I tell, by the end of this movie I felt really uncomfortable and caught myself at checking my living room.

Just go with the flow and this movie will not let you down. I must admit that I'm totally loving these sort of movies, but just give it a try.

BTW, I'd like you guys to know that I've recently saw to other great "found footage" movies more then worthly to check out: being "Lake Mungo" and "Home video".

Enjoy..

Please add opportunity to give ZERO stars... (or negative)

[berencamlost · 10 August 2011]

In my opinion the Norwegian government should sentence Anders Behring Breivik to watch this movie on repeat... Forever.

I can't even begin to explain how bad this film was. It's like watching an episode of "Days of our lives" in ultra slow motion while listening to porcupines fornicate.

If you consider seeing this movie, do yourself a favor; Don't!

If you don't take my friendly advice, be sure to have lots of medication ready. You'll need it. It's like having your eyes and intellect raped by four elephants wrapped in barbed wire.

Honestly.

It's that bad. Or worse.

I hope this review has been informative, and that you, the reader, are smart enough to see ANY other movie besides this one. "Mac & Me" or any Uwe Boll film will rock your world compared to this piece of festering dog snot!

I will now have to pay my therapist hundreds of dollars to get over the fact that I spent over an hour of my life watching this awful piece of sh.. work.

Could I choose I would rather have an appendectomy performed without anesthetic rather than seeing this film. But it's to late. That time is gone and passed. Please excuse me while I bite my wrists open and leave this world for an (hopefully) better place. If I go to hell for committing suicide I pray that hell is not a cinema where I will have to watch "Paranoid Activity 2" over and over again with no way of leaving or closing my eyes.

Thank you, and goodbye.

Still shaking

[mnd_hunt · 10/10 · 13 March 2012]

All these negative reviews are bogus, the problem is People who don't like ghost movies watch this ghost movie with a bad attitude to start with, so their opinion is already made. I'm a huge ghost movie buff and out of the 20 ghost movies i've watched i've NEVER been shaking and almost ready to actually SCREAM like i was with this movie. This movie was freaky and scary!! For the future reviews, if ghost thrillers aren't your style of movie, don't watch it and if your forced to watch it, don't go out of your way to write a crappy review, that's just stupid and rude for people who actually base their movie purchases or rentals on this site!!!

Found footage fans will enjoy it

[magwell-1 · 8/10 · 9 June 2012]

If you are a fan of the found footage sub-genre, then you will like this film. If, on the other hand, you think Resident Evil is "awesome" then don't bother. None of the characters spray automatic weapons fire or say kewl things like, "Let's rock!" so you'll probably be bored.

For those who do enjoy this type of film, it has some good scares and creepy atmosphere, but the acting is a tad weak. I gave it an 8/10, but it's really more of a 6/10. My inflated rating is strictly to counter-balance all the ridiculously low ratings ("worst movie ever!") submitted by the MTV generation.

The script also has a few obvious problems. For example, when you encounter paranormal activity in your kitchen and you have a camera at the ready, set the dang thing up in the kitchen so you can maybe catch whatever it is on video! Also, when you discover bloody fingerprints on a cupboard, call the dang cops! (note: this occurred before they lost their cell signals, so it was a possibility. And lastly, if your cellphone does lose its signal, there's a little something called the internet that might be helpful to communicate with the world. But whatever...

As I said above, fans of found footage will enjoy this flick. Others need not apply.