Paranormal Activity

A Handy cam film! - Yes the entire film is shot with a Handy cam. And there are only 4 characters or rather 5 (invisible stuff) in the film:

Our Hero – Micah

His girlfriend - Katie

Psychiatrist - Tim Piper

Girlfriend's friend - Ashley Palmer

Ghost

Katie is having troubles during night with some weird psychic happenings going on around her after her house got burnt when she was 8 years old. She comes to live with Micah as Micah is doing some research on psychic stuff. He uses his Handy cam to record their daily life to capture those incidents and to analyze them. Some scenes in the movie are disturbing because of 2 reasons - the movie is taken in Handy cam and so whatever happens in the movie looks like a reality show, so every audience feels as if it is happening really. Also, there is no acting kind of stuff in the movie. All the scenes are very very natural that makes us think if the movie is just a recorded version of real life. I am not going to tell the incidents that are happening but just for making you curious - When they are asleep one night, their bed room's door starts closing in and suddenly it stops and opens again. Another day, Katie is standing and talking to Micah that suddenly her hair starts waving in the air inside the room as if someone is blowing it and she screams for that!

Suspense and momentum starts building up in the last 30 mins of the movie. Was Micah able to get rid of the ghost that is in his house? Was Katie saved in this encounter?

Watch the movie for yourself and enjoy!

Definitely disturbing.

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District - 9

Hey Fellas! Long time huh…! Here I am with another movie review. This time a new one - affected me much that i didnt stand up from my seat even after the movie ended. A very different approach to world cinema - 'District 9'.
In 1982 - an alien spaceship stops over Johannesburg, SA for some reason. A few years later a small portion of it fell down but eventually no one could find it out. An exploratory group OF Scientists find 1000's of aliens in the space ship. The government of SA agree to provide them an exclusive district for their living - District 9. The Aliens did work with the local humans to get money.With the money they bought Cat food - which they loved to eat. The locals indulged in inter-species prostitution too with the aliens in exchange of their advanced weapons. One important thing to be noted is that all the alien's weapons are designed considering the aliens' genes. Even though it will look like a normal gun, a human cannot use the weapon but only an alien will be able to do so.

Life with Aliens was not peaceful though. There were bullying aliens that threaten the humans for money. So the humans started protesting against the local government to either kill the aliens or to move them to a distant place. Decision was made by the government to give the aliens - a 24 hrs prior notice to evacuate the place. Wikus Van De Merwe of the MNU organization that takes care of the alien affairs in South Africa is assigned to do the job. He goes to each and every house hold in District 9 and gives them the notice. Wikus - as part of this work examines few households of the aliens to see what they really have. While examining, he comes across a small handy cylinder will black oil kind of stuff in it. He smells it and its stink throws him back. After 8 hrs or so, the day's work ended and Wikus goes to a restaurant and tries to have some food. His colleagues see black colored liquid coming out of his nose and at the corner of his eyes. Worried, he rushes to his house.. and by the time his situation worsens - Vomitting and nausea kind of stuff. At his office - probably the next day, he finds that his finger nails start coming out automatically. He freaks out with these incidents. He is admitted to hospital with a wounded arm on an incident where an alient attacked him during issue of notice. The doctors remove the band aid on his arm after 24 hours or 48 hours (i dont remember exactly :-) ) and find that his arm has started getting converted into an alien's arm. He has started becoming an alien! His father-in-law who happens to be an Army chief too offers Wikus body(he is not dead now) for medical experiments. Seeing this, Wikus escapes from the hospital and goes to District 9 in search of that house hold where he found the black oil-like substance. The owner of that house Christopher (an alien - it has a name :-) ) tells him that its a bio-chemical and he can bring wikus back to human form. But for that, Chirsopher needs the black substance which is now in the hands of MNU in their labs.

Wikus and Chrisopher try getting this substance - a suicidal mission where they successfully bring it back to District 9. Christopher seems like an eminent scientist in the alien world. He has the fallen part of the ship (the part that fell in 1982). He said that it took 20 yrs of hardship to prepare that black substance which is the bio-fuel for the ship (fallen part). He has to go to the mother ship - the one stopped 25 yrs back and still waiting over Johannesburg, to get the medicine or solution for Wikus's treatment. After that whatever happens is the climax. I leave it to you to watch the movie as it is DAMN GOOD!!! Climax is a different one so do not assume the last 15-20 mins of movie with my review. There is a twist after this which I would suggest you guys to watch the movie and feel for yourself.

I loved the movie and the way it is taken. Mostly it looks like a documentary but the way the screenplay is done - the visual effects are handled are so good.
Sharlto Copley's performance as Wikus Van de Merwe is awesome. Still its the visual effects that speak more than his performance. Hollywood movies are concentrating more on visual effects nowadays than pure phenomenal performance.

Please comment on the review, watch the movie and enjoy for yourself.
More to come soon…!