The category I choose was horror movies. My top 3 are, Paranormal Activity, The Fourth Kind, And Amity Ville Horror. The criteria I used to choose my picks were based on, which one was scariest, the one that seemed most believable, and the one that left me in totally shock after it was over.
The first movie I choose was "Paranormal Activity". This by far was one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. The reason it was soo scary was because it was totally and utterly believable. For one the whole story took place in a house, just a normal cozy looking house. The girl lives in the house with her boyfriend and experiences paranormal activities that scare her to death. The reason its soo believable is because the whole movie looks like a documentary, and the people who star in the movie are just average Joe people. At the end of the movie it says "This story is based on true events" so everything you just watched you would be lead to believe is real. By the time the movie was over and I had left the theatre, I was reduced to tears in complete terror.
The second movie I choose was "The Fourth Kind". This movie was also very scary. It takes place in Alaska, so not a very big place. Aliens visit a select few people and invade their homes. The creepy thing is the aliens are not seen. You can never actually see the aliens you are just allured into thinking their there. In that case your imagination runs wild with ideas of what this unexplainable phenomena is. Throughout the movie these people are visit by the unknown space creatures and are taken. But wake up and remember nothing. This movie is believable because at the very beginning a script roles by and says " Based on true events" just like in "Paranormal Activity". If you believe in aliens or any sort of unknown thing up in space there is no doubt this movie will leave you frightened, because you tend to think of what if it happened in my town? or to me? or someone I know? By the end of the movie your left wondering and thinking WHAT IF.
The third movie I choose was "Amity Ville Horror". This piece was scary also but not to the extent of the other two. The setting is in a house that is hosted by a nice family of two parents and two children. The house is said to be "haunted" and unexplainable things occur to specifically the father who lives in the house. He is taken over by a mysterious need to kill his family, and constantly sees the ghosts that are said to haunt the house. They tell him to do unthinkable things to his family which then leads to him going crazy. This movie scares me because like the other two it says at the beginning " Based on true events", and the setting is in a house with a normal looking family. The scenes in this film are extremely graphic and leave disturbing images in your mind which makes you frightened. I couldn't possibly imagine something like that to actually happen to a family, because it just doesn't seem possible. But when the producers but "Based on True events" in the movie it just makes you wonder.
The three things these movies ALL have in common is in every single one it says 'Based on true events". In my opinion that's what makes it believable and scary the most. People don't usually believe in these sorts of things because they seem so unrealistic, but then when you really think about it, WHAT IF it was real? There have been a few events that have happen in the world that no one can explain. Who is to say that these three things couldn't actually happen? It totally messes with your phsycie, and leaves you confused and full of questions. That's the best part of horror films, your left with the unknown :)
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