{"id":15102,"date":"2014-06-30T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15102"},"modified":"2015-05-18T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T12:45:38","slug":"the-pc-thug-10-facts-about-shasta-mcnasty-you-may-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/the-pc-thug-10-facts-about-shasta-mcnasty-you-may-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The PC Thug: 10 Facts about \u201cShasta McNasty\u201d (You May Not Know)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the better movie series I\u2019ve seen in a long time is \u201cParanormal Activity.\u201d Yes, it has its detractors, sure. You either love the movies, or you act snooty and mock people for liking the movies. I don\u2019t give a shit, either way. I think \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d was great, and this was before it became a viral sensation with the ad campaign (featuring people that knew they were being filmed) of people screaming and shrieking at the movie\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

I fondly remember asking for a chance to review the screener from Oren Peli, and being stunned at what I\u2019d finished watching when it ended. I loved \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d then and never knew it\u2019d become such a huge hit.<\/p>\n

Years later, we\u2019re on to \u201cParanormal Activity 4\u201d moving on to part five, and we even have our own Latin spin off! And ever since part three I\u2019ve been asking the same question: Where the hell is this all going?<\/p>\n

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Oren Peli seemed to strive for subtlety and quiet terror, but Dreamworks seems to be aiming for something larger and larger. There\u2019s stuff like time travel, and conceiving demons, and cults of little boys, and an army of haggard witches, and decades long plans to birth women with the off spring of some demonic entity.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m still here scratching my head thinking \u201cSo, what\u2019s the plan here?\u201d All I know about the series so far is that Katie Featherston is one of the hottest horror villains ever conceived and at this point, her character Katie seems so far gone, she\u2019s likely incapable of saving. Will we have a gigantic show down? Will the demons and witches take over Earth a la \u201cPrince of Darkness\u201d? Or will a hero finally emerge to take down the entire lot of them? There\u2019s mention of a demonologist in the first film, and there\u2019s still Katie\u2019s niece roaming around somewhere, so what\u2019s up, guys? What\u2019s the end game for it all?<\/p>\n

\"Paranormal-activity-the-marked-ones-2014-jesse-demon-ending-andrew-jacobs-review\"<\/a>It was a good idea to market a spin off series to the Latin culture. We as a people tend to be superstitious, very religious, and believers of Santeria, Black Magic, and the like. \u201cThe Marked Ones\u201d had that golden opportunity to lend substance to the series, while also embracing the horrors of the evil that the Latin community is so fearful of, and it just completely coasted over the big chance just to deliver what was just another stock \u201cfound footage\u201d horror movie. And that ending? It came off slightly racist.<\/p>\n

It can\u2019t be just me that thinks that. In either case, \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d is moving in to part five soon, and I\u2019d love to see them steer the entire narrative and mythos in to a place where the audience can catch on and garner some sense of expectations. Part four suffered from a massive plot hole that was never explained, while \u201cThe Marked Ones\u201d was such a shoddy cash grab, it was embarrassing to sit through.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re told by the middle of the film that main character Jessie was being groomed for years to become the vessel for the demonic entity that would turn him evil. So what the hell was even the point of the entire scene in the abandoned church with the black mirror? The demon was there all the time, so why allude that Jessie summoned it. That\u2019s just one in a slew of problems in the utterly terrible \u201cThe Marked Ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

I still enjoy the first three parts of \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d and thought it could have ended on the ambiguous note in the finale of part three with Katie\u2019s step dad being murdered, and the daughters being used to carry out their destinies. But studios these days want franchise and trilogies, so it\u2019s pretty sad that if \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d does eventually come fully circle and end its entire narrative, it may not be a definite \u201cThe End,\u201d since Hollywood never closes shop on its movie series\u2019 entirely.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, I\u2019d settle for a \u201cThe End\u2026?\u201d if only the writers and producers seemed like they knew what they were doing and where they were taking this whole circus. Much like the former dominant horror series \u201cSaw,\u201d eventually the novelty will wear thin. \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d lost me as a supporter a long time ago, for now I\u2019m cautiously optimistic and would love to be scared again going in to these movies. Time to pick up the pace and take us somewhere terrifying, guys, or I\u2019ll just seek my scares elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the better movie series I\u2019ve seen in a long time is \u201cParanormal Activity.\u201d Yes, it has its detractors, sure. You either love the movies, or you act snooty and mock people for liking the movies. I don\u2019t give a shit, either way. I think \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d was great, and this was before it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pcthugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15104,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions\/15104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}