You kind of had to be there.
Paranormal Activity, like The Blair Witch Project before it, is a movie best experienced in a large dark room with 100 screaming strangers. Maybe that’s true of most movies, but found-footage thrillers attempt to hijack your brain into thinking they’re real in a way that just doesn’t work when you’re watching it at home when the lights are on and phone notifications are vying for your attention.
