Review of Paranormal Entity (2009) by Jacob P — 17 Jun 2013

Just by looking at the cover, you can obviously tell that it's a knock-off of Paranormal Activity that's probably just a 90 minute borefest. Not exactly. Keep in mind that this film was created by The Asylum, notorious for creating unspeakably bad films (mainly knock-offs).

My expectations were already low. There was the first half hour that was just the regular setup to most horror movies before the real "horror" came in. It started ordinary, things falling, writings appearing, just simple things. Then the rape ghost made his debut. Can you guess his special attribute? I wasn't sure whether to accept this as comical relief or a serious part of the story. There were some genuine scares, but not enough to for me to consider this movie great, or even good for that matter. There's many things it doesn't do well, but there is one that it does: Be better than the series it knocked off.