I'm less concerned with the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY copycats than I am with the inevitable (and obviously already underway) wave of bitching about PA and its imitators. This happens every time something is a hit - hordes of horror fans get baited by the hype and are inevitably let down (or, in the case of some, pass judgment without ever even seeing the movie, because they instinctively hate anything that is popular), and then it becomes a personal crusade to berate and bemoan both the trend and the movie that inspired it at every opportunity. And no matter how many long-winded rants some of us write about the profit-minded realities of the MOVIE BUSINESS, the angry villagers keep storming the castle until some other hit/trend comes along for them to loathe even more. Remakes, reboots, franchise crossovers, PG-13, 3-D, literary classics updated with horror elements, videogame adaptations, videocamera "accounts", horror comedies, torture porn, vampire romance, etc., etc., et. al. The label changes, but the song remains the same. If the complainers put forth even a tiny fraction of the effort they spend griping about current lucrative trends in horror cinema trying to create something original on their own - or, at very least, just finding some other, more productive use of their time - maybe there'd be a wider variety of new stuff out there for us to enjoy. But why put forth positive effort when you can just go to a message board or comments page that studio execs never read and bitch ad nauseum, eh? Why try and patch the hole in the bottom of the boat when you still have enough oxygen left in your lungs to complain about it sinking?