this movie or Paranormal Activity?
care to share your thoughts?
shareI take Alien Abduction over Paranormal Activity, based on the fact that it felt real, and many people (including me) thought it was real when they first saw it. That was the main objective of the film and it pulled it off, specially with many experts claiming that it was real in UFO conventions and TV shows.
Paranormal Activity tried to play the same card, but didn't worked mainly because it was never going to work in today's society, with access to pretty much every information we want through the Internet. Even Blair Witch couldn't do it 10 years ago, when it was widely known shortly after the film was premiered, that it wasn't real as it as claimed.
Another plus for Alien Abduction is that we could actually believe what we were seeing, it felt natural most of the time,and we could feel that we were there living what they were living, while in Paranormal Activity the acting was not better and the boyfriend character was just too annoying and didn't helped the viewer to get involved in the story. Also, the fact that Abduction was shot in a regular hand camera, added to the "real footage" thing, as it looked like anything that most families could tape with their own video cameras. In Paranormal we get a professional camera, which not many people own. Nowadays most people shot video with their conventional photocameras, so maybe they could have adapted the script to fit that sort of technology and maybe more people could've related to it.
I have to disagree - Alien Abduction (AA) is so obviously fake but I had to check imdb before I was satisfied Paranormal (PA) wasn't real! PA recognised it was low budget so left most things to the viewers imagination (giving just enough action to convince us it was real, without going over the top - as AA did). I didn't notice a single goof in PA at the time, but AA wreeks of them!
The acting in PA is flawless - the girls screaming was truly petrifying. In comparisson, the McPherson's acting was so obviously fake - they just didn't react to the situation with any instinct - they even sat back down to have thanksgiving dinner after half of them had seen some aliens! Come on people!
The girl who runs around crying most of the film never actually intentionally looks at the camera when she's crying (obviously because she's not crying) and on occassion you can even catch a smirk on her face.
Trying to cover the aliens face in darkness also doesn't work as their featureless and prosthetic masks can't even be mistaken for real in the dark. And bearing in mind this camera has the brightest light I've ever seen (check the scene when their outside with the red light alien, where the camera lights up the houses entire outside wall), why does the light mysteriously fail when the aliens are around?
Finally, the film never explains in any way why superpowerful intergalatic aliens waste their time on these bumpkins, spending almost two hours playing with the lights and walking around the garden at snail pace, when they could just use their red LED light through a window to render them all unconscious (also a very unconvincing effect). In PA, they clearly establish the demons torturous intentions through cleverly introduced tension builders (the medium, the weejie board, the book on demonology) and any on-camera effects look very natural (albeit created from a suposedly evil/paranormal source). PA wins!
I rest my case.
Also, how can you say AA wins purely because it was made before the internet became mainstream?!
sharePA scared me much more than AA did. Much more. It makes you jump quite a few times. This one doesn't, really. It just keeps you in suspense for a while, but it's not really scary. I guess it could be because I don't care for aliens, but I very much believe in the spiritual world.
"GET BACK IN THE BUILDING!! NO LOITERING!!" - Trudy Weigel
I liked this more but then Alien Abduction is one of my favorite topics. PA was ok but kinda slow and dull at times.
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I would call it Paranormal Acting. There's nothing scary about that movie anyways. Sleeping disorders are not scary! A picture in the attic is not frightening! Alien Abduction is a better movie. The acting isn’t better, but the characters are more interesting.
shareI'm the complete opposite. I buy aliens (to an extent). I don't buy anything related to the spiritual world. And suspense is infinitely better than jump scares (I would however argue this movie ruined its own suspense by cutting to those experts whenever something was about to happen).
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PA recognised it was low budget so left most things to the viewers imagination
Finally, the film never explains in any way why superpowerful intergalatic aliens waste their time on these bumpkins
Yeah... take your own advice. I'm glad they didn't give us an explanation. It was meant to feel unscripted. Also, how do we know they're intergalactic travelers? In the context of the film, maybe they came from the nearest solar system.
Anyway, I have an easier time believing aliens (who are statistically extremely likely to exist, though not necessarily in this form or anywhere near us) than I do demons, so that alone makes this the scarier film to me. However, PA plays on the fear of hearing things when you're alone at night... which is to its advantage. I guess I'm rather torn, in the end.
PA is obviously the more high quality of the films, being a huge release.
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AA impacted me much more than PA, while its not that good of a movie it makes you uncomfortable while you watch it. i still get chills just thinking about the ending because it just hits a nerve even in recent viewings. PA never touchs that nerve and has too much downtime allowing you to pay attention to things that seem silly. also all the endings take away the momentum of the film and thats my biggest problem with it
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