Monday, July 9, 2012

Review – Paranormal Incident

If this had been the first camcorder-Scooby-Doo-vs-the-haunted-asylum movie ever made, it would have been decent stuff. Certainly the acting and the production quality are a cut or two above the usual found footage fare. Trouble is, this is thoroughly traveled territory. The only real innovation is the use of a narrative-style bracketing story, and the only two functions the bracket serves are to destroy the “this shit could be real” element and toss in some bewildering nonsense at the end (the kind of betcha-didn’t-see-that-coming twist that nobody ever sees coming because it doesn’t make any goddamn sense). See if desperate

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