With Halloween on the way, everyone seems to be in the business of wanting to scare all the poo-poo out of their bums, leaving the people who subcontract cleaners to our megaplexes rolling in money.
Of course, the mark of a successful scary movie is how much money is frightened out of our collective wallets and in through the tills.
And this weekend, Paranormal Activity 2 is the thing frightening your pennies into submission, landing at number on the weekend box office charts.
Yes indeed! You’re all getting the willies (not the kind you might see at a very different type of cinema) for kicks and then going home to have awful, awful nightmares about it.
That, or you’re going and tutting all the way through the film and then coming home to write nasty reviews on a forum or personal blog. Well done you. You’re definitely our kind of person.
Anyway, let us peer at the chart with an amount of cash stuck on the end.
1. As we mentioned, Paranormal Activity 2 tops the charts and, if you haven’t seen it or don’t know the set-up, it’s about a family who think that people keep breaking into their house. That’s not very scary is it? Well, it is if you consider that they set up security cameras around their home, only to realize that some really dark shit is going down. BOO ETC $41,500,000
2. WOOOOO! WOOOOHOOHOO! Poo! Hurting yourself! MORE POO! Yes indeed, Jackass 3-D continues to do well which probably means that snobby movie type are all sat around worrying about the death of cinema. One word to that lot – HA HA. Oh. That’s two. $87,147,000
3. Red shows how very, very old Bruce Wills looks in an adaptation of a comic book thing. Everyone likes making films of comics at the minute, so hecklerspray looks forward to someone putting the story of Hotshot Hamish on the silver screen. $43,483,000
4. What’s this? Hereafter is a drama about some American, a French journalist and a London school boy. No, they don’t walk into a pub to set up a punchline, but rather, are all touched by death in different ways. Okay? Here’s the money. $12,320,000
5. The Social Network invites you to buy a sheep on Farmville or whatever the shit this film is about. $72,931,000