Film: 'Paranormal Activity 2'; Director: Tod Williams; Cast: Sprague Grayden, Brian Boland, Katie Featherston, Molly Ephraim; Rating: ***1/2For those who think the history of "Paranormal Activity", and not only the chill, would think that not much explanation was granted for the paranormal events in the film."Paranormal Activity 2", which is a parallel prequel, tries to pass that explanation, which perhaps becomes the weakness of the film.The back part tells the history of Katie's (Katie Featherston) sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden), who is facing a like form of unexplainable ghostly activity in her house occupied by her husband Daniel (Brian Boland), step daughter Ali (Molly Ephraim) and infant son. Ali is one of the low ones to personally feel it. But her pleas fall on deaf ears of her father, safe as they look in the cognition that the full home is rigged with cameras.The daughter meanwhile finds out more and discovers, tackily through research on the internet, that the paranormal activity is because someone in the house had sold his psyche to the devil for riches, on the circumstance that the first born male child in the house would be apt to him. Sadly, in about a century, her step brother was the first male born in the family.The success of the low part, despite no external sound or effects, was because of one word - anticipation. The picture had built up the ante with stillness punctured by gentle unexplainable activities, till the grand finale shook everyone.This section follows this good and does produce a few chills in the minds of the interview through the steady shots of the house. However, for those who have seen the first, there is nothing new here. Also, the cheap way in which the account of the horrors is given leaves a lot to be desired.Yet, at the origin of both the "Blair Witch Project" films and the two "Paranormal Activity" films, are the simplest and the most identifiable of human emotion - raw fear. It is novel to see once again that a movie does not rely on cheap gore and origin to scare audiences, boding well for film in general.Filmmakers should therefore have a cue from both the series, and pay more stress on a full report and their own skills, rather than effects. And if nothing than for that cause alone, "Paranormal Activity 2" is a must watch.
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