Paranormal Attraction

I really am having some hard time believing that those actors get paid for doing this sort of job. The only person who knew how to act, was that blonde girl. And director seems like a person how couldn't even effort a slow Mo camera. After watching the title I wasn't expecting to watch the conjuring, but sometimes I like to watch bad movie just to kill time and that's it. But this movie is so annoying.

There is some production value --even an opening helicopter shot.

The acting is horrendous.

And let me give you one non-spoiler example at how poor the writing is: Basically after the titles the main woman is in bed with her laptop. The bathroom door slowly opens. She gets freaked and goes to look but takes like 2 minutes to slowly y close her laptop before getting out of bed. Who would do that? Ed Wood.

The movie is also real slow. And doesnt make a ton of sense.

So with all the production value, it seems they skimped on actors who could act, writers who could write and directors who could direct.

This movie just shouldn't have been made. If the camera work doesn't let you know very early on in the movie that this isn't a well made movie, the 'acting' will let you know in short order.

The only one I found passable was the actress playing the cop, who seems out of place with her natural easy way of acting surrounded by others who need to give up their profession. Perhaps she should have had the lead, because I've no idea how the lead was cast as she was. Unnatural, forced and awkward, I was laughing at the poor acting in several parts, and cringed too much.

Only watched half an hour, perhaps max of 45 minutes. I just couldn't waste any more time on it, even as a background movie whilst doing something else.

I get that the writing and direction have parts to play, not only in producing a bad movie, but in bringing out the worst in actors, but there's only so much blame you can place on them when the actors have zero talent.

Imagine that you, the viewer, with a profession and hobbies that have nothing to do with acting or film making, rocked up to play a part in a movie as a side gig. This is what you get. Utterly awful.

I was a little surprised at the storyline of the cop and lead character dating as they were gay, surprised in a good way, it's not represented enough in films. I gave an extra star for this.

How can you get funding to be so bad at making a fairly simple movie. It doesnt even hit the b list horror criteria. So bad.

Alright, well "Paranormal Attraction" wasn't exactly top of the line entertainment. In fact, the movie had a very overshadowing low budget feel to it. But at the same time, the movie actually fared well enough at certain aspects.

The storyline told in "Paranormal Attraction" was pretty straight forward and easy to follow. Perhaps it was a bit on the generic and mundane side of the spectrum at times. And the movie was definitely suffering from being too predictable.

The acting in the movie was actually fair enough, taking into consideration the limitations imposed on the actresses and actors by writers Richard J. Aguirre and Alexander T. Hwang. Personally, I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress in the movie, so I enjoyed that part of the movie; watching new talents unfold on the screen.

"Paranormal Attraction" was not particularly scary, and I was initially lured in by the movie's cover/poster and the fact that it was labeled as a horror movie. So heads up, the horror elements in "Paranormal Attraction" are few and far apart. So don't get your hopes up for a grand experience in horror and spooks.

Now, I didn't really buy into the whole paranormal aspect of the movie, because it just felt halfhearted and it wasn't really brought to life on the screen in a fulfilling manner to make it believable.

While the 2020 movie "Paranormal Attraction" was watchable, it was hardly a memorable or outstanding movie experience. I managed to sit through the entire movie, but I know that I will never sit down to watch it again.

My rating of "Paranormal Attraction" by director Alexander T. Hwang settles on a three out of ten stars.