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To have been terrified after watching Paranormal Activity

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roseability · 21/12/2009 14:31

Watched this at the cinema last night and had to sleep with my landing light on

The bit where she gets out of bed and stands wwatching over her boyfriend for hours is really spooky

Anyone else seen it? Am I a wimp?

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juneybean · 21/12/2009 14:32

I saw it and I thought it was crap ROFL

Mongolia · 21/12/2009 14:32

I have a very noisy old house. I have promised myself not to watch it (chicken emoticon)

TheShriekingHarpy · 21/12/2009 15:07

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ShinyAndNew · 21/12/2009 15:11

I watched. Then came back alone to my house, which every thinks is haunted. Even my dad who is non believer swears he seen 'someone who wasn't there' in my dining room.

I was a bit spooked. But not terrified.

maybebaby23 · 21/12/2009 15:16

I watched this and was really spooked by the girl just standing there watching her boyfriend for hours..i had some awful nightmares that night too!! I thought it was good as i love paranormal stuff but maybe i shouldn't have watched it at 37 weeks preg

upahill · 21/12/2009 15:18

I haven't seen the film because not my tthing but I know excattly what you mean about spooking yourself. I used to do it all the time when I lived by myself. Scared myself witless and can still do it from time to time if I'm not careful especially driving along cuontry laned when it is pitch black!!

Numberfour · 21/12/2009 15:42

i watched the film too and I was petrified. Such a scary film!

funny thing, maybebaby23, I watched The Ring when I was very pregnant, too and it scared the life out of me. i used to LOVE horrors but now they really freak me out!

ProfYaffle · 21/12/2009 15:44

I'm like that No4, since having dc I just can't watch proper horror films, I get too terrified! The Ring terrified me and dh too, our mantra became "it's just a film, it's just a film, it's just a film ...."

yojojo · 21/12/2009 16:51

I only watched bits of it and had to sleep with the lights on for weeks afterwards! i am a shameful coward

Tortington · 21/12/2009 16:54

i am a wimpola of the highest degree

i thought it was shit.

however i was still scared

GetOrfMoiLand · 21/12/2009 16:56

I thought it was Ok when I watched it, enjoyed it and wasn't too scared.

But then at 3 oc clock in the morning I heard a thump downstairs. It was probably the cats, however it didn't stop me turning the light on and looking frightened at the (open) bedroom door. Was too scared to get up and close said door because of terrifying under-bed gap.

Twat.

motherbeyond · 21/12/2009 16:59

i refuse to watch it!i'm such a woos..i can't remember if it was the ring,but the girl got got in hospital...next time i had to stay in hospital,i remembered it and was properly shitting myself all night!my friend and i once left a cinema because we were so scared of a film..then had to drive down a pitch black countrty lane..as had happened in the film,we screamed all the way down it

pucca · 21/12/2009 17:01

I thought it was crap too!

5inthesleighbed · 21/12/2009 17:03

My brother and sister have both seen it, and had mixed reviews. I'll not be watching it though as I can't sleep for weeks once I've watched a horror film.

Profyaffle, I was fine after watching The Ring, until 7 days later. It took me a bottle and a half of wine to go to sleep

motherbeyond · 21/12/2009 17:04

geroifmyland rofl at underbed gap!i still check before i go to bed!and i cant have the wardrobe doors open AND have to sleep with the hall light on EVERY night,and that's without the help of horror films..my mum said to me "you need to grow up,girl!what are you going to say when the dc's start saying there's something in the room/under their bed/in their wardrobe?"
and i said "aaaaarrrrrrggghhh,holy shit,fuckin' leggit!"
mum not impressed

cathcat · 21/12/2009 17:09

ROFL Motherbeyond!
I am too scared to watch.

ChrisMissWooWoo · 21/12/2009 17:26

I cannot watch films like this .... I've only been able to read the first 3 posts on this thread so far and am now shitting it! ridiculous!

(I thought blairwitch was scary!)

ChickensHaveNoTinsel · 21/12/2009 17:35

I twas scary, and then just silly. I am a massive Stephen King fan, though, and some of his books have left me too scared to use the loo

mustrunmore · 21/12/2009 17:37

Its crap.
But I'd prob have got a better scaredy atmosphere if it was n dvd at home rather than in cinema

DoingTheBestChristmasICan · 21/12/2009 17:42

I watched this & t really played on mind for weeks afterwards.

The night after i had watched it i went to bed before dh & when he came he touched my foot by accident (it was hanging out of the bed) i swear if i had been wearing drawers i would have touched cloth!

Very good film.

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roseability · 21/12/2009 20:18

I have had a tough day with the kids and have been snappy because I am so tired through lack of sleep! Completely self inflicted.

I have always been morbidly fascinated by films such as this. They really unsettle me for weeks but I have to watch them

I am dreading bedtime tonight and I can't get the image of her standing by the bed out of my head

I though certain bits in the film were poor though and a bit cliched e.g. Ouiji boards and demon theme. The whole grasping the crucifix thing has been done to death. However it also produced some of the best scenes in horror film history. I will never forget that scene where she is dragged out of bed and into the dark corridor by an invisible force.

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