Don’t worry if you haven’t seen the horror hit “Paranormal Activity.” I will not reveal the ending here.
However, I will say that I hated the last 15 seconds, because the cheesy jolt ending was completely out of sync with the well-mounted. “Blair Witch”-like realism of the movie up to that moment.
The 2007 movie, which cost a mere $11,000, had an original ending involving cops and a shooting. (You can see it by Googling “Paranormal Activity endings” and selecting any of the Web items.) I didn’t particularly like that one.
But I did think a third ending would have been the best. In it, demonically possessed Katie (Katie Featherston) kills her boyfriend Micah (Micah Sloat) off-screen, then walks into the bedroom, looks at the camera, then calmly cuts her throat.
Gruesome and chilling? Exactly.
But distribution honchos wanted the current ending, because it gives audiences a cheap thrill, which translates (they think) into a bigger box office take. (Read more…)