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5. Paranormal Activity Is Really About Bored Yuppies

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If you’ve never seen Paranormal Activity, it’s about a smug yuppie couple with a big house, a sports car and a bad case of Paradise Syndrome.

Worried that her life is too perfect, Katie concocts a story about a demon following her around that her boyfriend Micah uses as an excuse to spend money, which is the only thing that’s ever made him happy. In addition to purchasing a camera he says cost “about half as much as I made today”, he buys a Ouija board, hires a psychic and brings in a Demonologist.

The camera captures the sound of keys jangling and the next morning they find their car keys on the floor because even if demons existed, they’d have better things to do than mess with the heads of privileged idiots like these two. The rest of the movie is a dream Katie has to distract her from how dull she is.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'