Half in the Bag Episode 40: Sinister and Paranormal Activity 4 

You know, if sinister was from New Jersey he would be called the gabaghoul.

Point proven: 24:45 When he said "these scenes aren't scary, they're startling" and the alarm rang, the sleeping cat on my bed woke up, looked around for 2 seconds, then went straight back to sleep.

"You have a Baghoul problem. Go yell at your wife."

Mike in the little car is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

"Are you okay?!" "I'm fine, I'm a little startled but I'll be okay." That's the greatest thing I've heard all day.

The family in PA 4 had more laptops than Neil Breen.

The Gangnam style joke made me immediately remember I was watching this in 2019.

I would so ride that Universal Studios Tour as long as Mike is there slamming his fist on counter tops while saying "What was that?" at random intervals.

5 years later, and me and my pals still use the phrase "Bagoooool problem" when referring to any scene where the monster is explained.

"I can't recommend a movie just because it wasn't bad..." -Mike He recommended Battleship.

"why do they have so many laptops?" -Jay before seeing a Neil Breen Film

I remember seeing one of the Paranormal Activity movies in theaters. I forget which one it was, but there was an automated pool scrubber in a ton of shots outside, just chugging along scrubbing the pool. We got so bored that we invented a subplot for the scrubber. We said it was haunted by a benevolent ghost that goes from rich white person house to rich white person house, cleaning their pools when they're too busy fighting demons to do so. It was more interesting than the actual movie

Watching the entire series in order makes me remember where I was in my life during these years of movie reviews and laughs. I hope RLM never stops, this is one of the best channels on youtube.

Whenever Mike talks about his love of ghosts it’s like a cameo in an MCU movie. It’s the connective tissue holding Half in the Bag together.

How can you recommend Paranormal Activity as much as diarrhea? Diarrhea has a faster build up and a bigger pay off when the action happens. Diarrhea is way better than Paranormal Activity 4.

I'm losing it over the Mike haunted house ride

the inclusion of bill cosby's picture when jay and mike are telling plinkett who knocked him out and buried him was pretty prescient and much more hilarious in hindsight

I have that same purple duvet as the girl in the P.A. 4 footage. Ikea was selling those a couple of years ago. It's on my bed right now. Very comfy in case you were wondering.

I forgot how horrifying Jay's Amish beard was back in the day.

I like cream cheese all over my #Baghuul

I think that the whole paranormal found footage genre can work well on a platform like RU-vid, especially with something like the earlier marble hornets episodes, but when it's done in a theatre with a "4" tacked on, not so much

i want a 10 hour version of mike in a tiny cart with spoky music going through white people houses

I'm glad I saw Sinister wihtout having watched any trailers, made it a lot more interesting.

I went on the PA Universal ride, it was alri- *tableslap* What was that?

I can't stop saying "Bheguul!" with kind of a bad New York Italian accent. Like "Ey, bheguul! Fuhgeddaboudit!" Maybe this is the true curse of the baghuul.

Bagul on the Mayflower, now that would be a good movie

When she played Oppa Gangnam Style, I felt like cashing my Medicare checks because I'm so fucking old.

Ah yes, Jay in his Wolverine phase.

I want a ghost girl to help me clean up my house

Bagool II The Bagooqual Not coming to theatres near you.

The part where he starts hitting the table is probably one of my favorite hitb moments. That whole skit is comedy gold

I watch this episode when I'm sad

The one scene that I felt was a genuine, non-jump scare that legitimately scared me was in whichever one was the prequel, and the girls are running through a toy room and one bumps into something invisible. It was a great, simple shot, and it drained the color from my face (what can I say, I'm a baby)

I agree, Sinister definitely got a Baghuul problem.

"Are you OK?" " I think I'm a little startled, but I'm fine." Love all the deadpan humor.

the walk at 16:06 that mike does is amazing, i wish that's how he always walks

hahaha... *looks at green mist... "hopefully it doesn't get inside, and turn us into vahhmpiirzz.."

I came back from leaving it at about 29:30 completely forgetting how fucking evil you were, I cranked the volume up because I couldn't hear much. Let's just say you "startled" the shit out of me.

I liked Sinister. It was cliche upon cliche, but the videos were quite scary.

30:21 Timestamping this for everytime I have to watch the haunted house ride skit

"I should call someone." "Who ya gonna call?" *intense buildup* "...paranormal investigators." Comedy gold

The tagline for PA: The Ghost Dimension is ''For the first time, you will see the activity.''

Ah man being turned into a Vimpire by green mist is the worst!

"This movie made Jack and Jill look like a modern masterpiece... of effort." Oh god my sides!

This kinda movie works financially because so many people don't even go watch a movie for the movie. It's almost completely a social activity to them. They go on a date and then the scares are the dumbest excuse ever to grab a hold of each other. They will just use their cell phone in the theater. They will whisper to each other. You know. And they are usually not even aware of this. So the movie works better exactly because it has all these lapses of nothingness and everything that will actually happen has a sound cue.

The clunky and heavy-handed exposition from the "expert" just about ruined Sinister for me. Giving us an wikipedia entry on the dark and mysterious malevolent force takes away a huge part of the creepiness factor. Sure, the audience doesn't have to be left totally in the dark, but I just don't like being slapped in the face with information dumps. I think it would have been better just to have Ethan's character trying desperately to find information on the thing from books and lore, always unsure of himself and what he can or can't believe from the writings.

"Paranormal Inactivity 4"? Thats pretty good. All I could come up with was "Paranormal Activity, snore"

Sinister would have benefited if the twist wasn't that timeline thing with the demon. It should've been that the killer was an actual person that kills the family and eats the surviving kid, like straight up cannibalism. Genuinely disturbing, and it could've let them keep that weird demon mythos they wanted to push.

These movies exist solely for guys to laugh at their girlfriends for jumping at the scary sound

I love how Mike switches between saying "Baghuul" and "The Baghuul" during the discussion.

Don Beveridge: "We've got Baghuuls! WOOO!"

All I could think of was the Plinkett review where the ghost of his wife appeared at the end of his bed, whispering "revenge"..

29:43 I should stop falling asleep to youtube videos...

I'm so bored of these "ghosts haunting rich white people's houses" movies. Set one of these goddamn things inside of a big museum on a night where a single security guard is on duty and has to contend with all this freaky shit where he's in a situation where he isn't supposed to leave. It would make sense to be constantly looking at security cameras all the time.

Bagoogle searches?

Love that no one cared about Jay spoiling Sinister with no warning. Just shows how mediocre and predictable it is.

Mike's 'vimpires' line fucking gets me every time!

I will say the music for Sinister was phenomenal, that tapping/rapping along with the bass beat did it for me

"Hopefully it doesn't get inside and turn us into vum-pyres."

Laughed myself to tears over the whole "loud noise after being lulled into boredom"

hopefully it doesnt get inside and turn us into vympires

The Paranormal Activity Universal Studios Ride bit is one of my favorite bits of comedy of all time

The scream at 5:01 sounds like Patton Oswalt from his bit about the big, muscular rat that was carried away by a hawk in his backyard.

24:40 Thank you. Jump scares are a virus that is killing horror films.

As someone who's a fan of the first Paranormal Activity... you guys made a lot of good points, and I feel kinda stupid. You seem to give the first some lax, but a lot of the points are still kind of there. Just set-up after set-up after set-up of strange things. But thinking about it further, I'd say the only reason the first could be much more tolerable is that you don't quite understand what is causing everything until about... half way? So there's at least a mystery there, and that does build some level of suspense. I also think it built up a bit better, but the ending is pretty atrocious. The ending where Katie gets shot at the end would have been better, I think. It also did hit me on a personal level. I've always had a thing against doors. Something about them has always spooked me, so when they start moving and banging for no reason, I do get legit shaken up. There was a good amount of that in the first one and some in the second. But, that really isn't any legit credit to the filmmakers. They just kinda got lucky I have this mild phobia. I suppose I'd still stand by the first one being at least ok, due having a special place in my heart for what it did to me on my first viewing. The rest, at least, I can agree were just... not very good. Well done in making me think.

Sinister also has some *insane* audio muxing - when I watched it, I constantly had to turn it up to hear people whispering extremely quietly and turn it down because CONSTANT SCREAMING.

you actually scared me with them noises

i just realized that there wasn't a paranormal activity movie this halloween.

Going into movies not having watched the trailer is a lot more fun. I had no idea about Bug dude. He did actually creep me out when I saw the movie.

11:54 - that is one of Mike's best line deliveries of all time. Laugh my balls off every time.

Mike saying that he would recommend this movie like he would recommend having diarrhea actually makes a lot of sense. In both cases you should experience it at least once so you can empathize with other people who have to suffer through it, but after that first time you never really need to do it again.

"Should we help him off the goddam ground"

That guy with the glasses and his crew have gotten WAY to big for for their bridges.. These guys are where it's at

The thing with Paranormal Activity is it plays off your imagination. It's almost a non-movie. It's not about what's on the screen, it's about what *could* be happening on screen at any second. The fault still remains that none of what it delivers lives up to its potential, but the draw and the fear is that anything is possible.

Demon Plinkett voice singing "Deck the Halls" at 40:04 is great

I think about Mike in the minecart like once a week.

I just bagoolgled the bagooqual to this film and found bagooldiddly squat

The Paranormal Activity series is equivilent to a 90 minute roller coaster with the same amount of drops and turns as a 5 minute roller coaster.

I'm normally rather susceptible to jump scares, but the alarm clock sound when Jay was explaining them got me worse than almost any other jump scare I've been hit with.

I think ghost plinkett is one of the best bits they've ever done

I love the Tell-Tale Heart reference!

Being scared release a dose of adrenaline in your system, people who goes to the movie theaters watching Paranormal Activity are just like a bunch of drug addicts looking for the jump scare, the "fix".

Even those bullshit jump scares scared the fuck out of me.

I wish more people knew that horror is more than just cheap thrills

*ghostbusters theme starts* Jay:"Who ya gonna call??" *Staring intensifies and ghostbusters theme gets louder* Me: ANTICIPATION *Ghostbusters theme cuts* Mike: "paranormal investigators..." Me and Jay: Oh.... *Disappointment*

OMG I had my headphones on and almost had a heart attack at @24:50 lol

When I was trapped in college, playing Minecraft for like 6 hours a day, I must have rewatched his dozens of time, because all these lines are burned into my brain

i think paranormal activity movies (or most cheap jump-scare-based horror movies like the devil inside or whatever) are popular because they don't demand any kind of engagement from the audience. a teenager can look at it's phone the whole way through and still be startled by the loud noise. it's incredibly insulting to filmmaking but it's lucrative i guess.

Glad to see that after 8 years later their shirts finally fit

The fact that Jay missed one piece of mail when taking the mail is the thing of I love about their skits. One take. Fuck it.

That laugh 13:48

Paranormal Activity took a lot of it's ideas from the 1992 BBC television movie Ghostwatch, which is actually very scary and well made if your able to look past some low-budget British television jank (I personally don't really notice this but it can be a bit of a barrier to entry)

Half in the baghuul

I hadn't seen the trailer for Sinister before seeing it so it was a bit more creepy for me my first time watching it, but the Bagule thing did kind of fall flat towards the end.

Im writing a horror short film and I swear RLM is the best resource to learn what not to do

*Paranormal Activity 4 is like a haunted house except there are NO Halloween decorations and instead it's just a wealthy household*

As a long time RLM viewer I can say 2 things after watching this pretty old episode of Half in the Bag(thanks, inexplicable Yotube recommandations). Firstly their reviewing part got better. Here is too much trailer footage, especially when talking about Sinister. Now it is more fluid. Secondly I had completely forgotten they used to do these small sketches in every HitB episode. Also, we can safely say after 7 years the found footage genre died off. Now we get better individual horror films and also horror cinematic universes.

Dialogue error: Jay said both of them didn't want to see it but only one of them said he didn't. Wow, what a bunch of hacks!

Watching this again I am yet reminded that Sinister is a movie that existed that did some neat shots and that wandering around a dark apartment when you have a black cat is scarier than the entire Paranormal Activity series and has a more functional plot.

The baby in that clip has a ghost on his bib...DUN DUN DUN!!