We went to Paranormal Activity movie a couple of days back and I must say I have had the worst experience. I read so much about the film and it was reviewed highly on various film review websites (including Rotten Tomatoes) and because my wife loves horror movies decided to give it a go.
I have had an issue with motion sickness for quite some time and for those who may not know, Motion sickness or kinetosis, also known as Travel Sickness, is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system’s sense of movement. Depending on the cause it can also be referred to as seasickness, car sickness, simulation sickness, airsickness, or space sickness.
Dizziness, fatigue, and nausea are the most common symptoms of motion sickness. Sopite syndrome in which a person feels fatigue or tiredness is also associated with motion sickness. Nausea in Greek means seasickness (naus means ship). If the motion causing nausea is not resolved, the sufferer will frequently vomit. Unlike ordinary sickness, vomiting in motion sickness tends not to relieve the nausea.
Examples of motion sickness alerts are that one can not read while travelling in a car, one can not sit facing backwards in a car, bud or tube travelling the opposite way and worst of all one gets sick when watching film shot with a handy cam and there is a lot of shaking etc.
I read reviews about Paranormal Activity and how scary it was and how people vomited in the theatres out of fear. Well, I can guarantee you, the vomiting would have been caused by motion sickness. 20 minutes into the film and I could not take it any more. We went with friends and one of my friends who had motion sickness also came out of the film and we hung around the theatre trying to get our breath back while the rest watched the movie.
The film is not scary and because it is entirely shot on a low quality handy cam, if you have motion sickness, it is guaranteed to make you sick and possibly even throw up!
