Paranormal Activity 2

With a bigger cast and more voyeuristic stakeouts, the sequel fine-tunes the shivers that made the first movie a hit.

Just when you thought it was safe to auto-record your McMansion existence, along comes "Paranormal Activity 2" to make static video grays, a corner time stamp and well-placed bumps in the night further cause for audience nervousness. It's the sequel to last year's DIY horror hit "Paranormal Activity," a housebound creeper built on some marginal if appreciatively unslick and non-gory jitters. In true indie-explosion fashion, writer-director Oren Peli's $11,000 feature went from midnight-screening word-of-mouth to $100-million hit upon release from Paramount (which had the good sense not to stick logos and credits on what was intended to play like found footage of a ghost capture gone wrong). [...]

di Robert Abele, articolo completo (3173 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 23 ottobre 2010