Ghosts
Later this year, Paranormal Activity 4 will attempt to scare the cash out of horror fans around the world.
The fourth in a series of films about one family’s stubborn refusal to find a new real estate agent, it promises to feed our thirst for footage of slowly opening doors, people lounging around in pools and random bits of IKEA furniture doing absolutely nothing.
The success of the Paranormal Activity franchise is clear proof of our continuing fondness for ghost movies.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of I Call Bullshit. Today we’re looking at ghosts (cue Ghostbuster music - you know you want to). This week, photographer Yvette Worboys has got more publicity than money could buy with her pictures of Sydney’s Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital, a decrepit old lunatic asylum.
The pictures are haunting; the effect eerily similar to the one achieved by my free Hipstamatic app. Sepia tones and shadows, dappled light and nostalgic colours.
Worboys took her pictures to mediums, who said they saw a presence in the picture printed above - apparently just to the left of the door.
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