Just recently, Paramount Pictures released a teaser trailer for Paranormal Activity 2. The studio then followed suit this past weekend, as the movie’s first photo still officially was released to the public. In both the film’s trailer and photo still, it seems pretty evident that Paranormal Activity 2 contains all the hard-biting supernatural suspense that made its predecessor so successful. I first saw the original film on dvd, and was impressed by how intensely real the movie came across, despite its primary focus on the supernatural. Too often, films dealing with supernatural subject material come across as being silly, pretentious, and, in the worst of examples, not even scary. The success of Paranormal Activity was due, in part, to all the things that were neither shown nor said; its filmmakers knew the power of relative silence, and, as a result, a legitimately frightening horror movie was made. Let’s just hope that the success of Paranormal Activity didn’t get to their heads, so that Paranormal Activity 2 can become an anomaly of a sequel that is as good, if not better, than its original precursor.

Source: Shockya