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If you have not seen Paranormal Activity yet and don’t want to know how it ends, DO NOT read any further.
Before Steven Spielberg suggested the finale you see on screen in the current cut of the super low-budget horror flick that’s taken the box office by storm, writer-director Oren Peli considered a handful of other options. “There were a lot of different endings that were shot,” says Micah Sloat, who costars in the film as Katie Featherston’s dubious-about-the-supernatural boyfriend. “We could probably do a chose-your-own adventure DVD of the entire movie, we have so many separate story threads didn’t make the final cut of the movie for whatever reason.” Here are three of those endings. READ FULL STORY »
On a very special night of Halloween-themed (or at least tinged) NBC programming, our four sitcom leads dealt with the holiday in their own true-to-character way. Jeff Winger dressed up only to try and sleep with someone. Michael Scott donned a “D— in a Box” costume and terrified little Scrantonites. Liz Lemon ignored it. And Leslie Knope…detained an underage vandalism suspect hostage at the office, then egged and TPed his house. “I WILL waterboard you!” she screamed at the kid in question, Greg Pikitis. I think we have a winner!
It was an odd hour of TV, to say the least. Kim wore a prototype of of her wig line. Sheree wore Dolce & Gabbana and claimed not to have fake boobs. (Good bra, my foot.) Lisa imagined there was public interest in a sex tape starring her and Ed. NeNe continued to express shock over having found herself in a roomful of Asians—and not even the American kind. Andy asked Kim to just take her damn wig off once and for all, but I fear Kim is at this very moment trying to orchestrate a big reveal in Life & Style magazine. Big Poppa apparently showed up during a commercial break, which suggests that Kim will not in fact be shoveling s— any time soon.
Women are being beaten, tortured, and brutally murdered more than ever on network TV: A new 
I never thought I’d be saying this, but Abed was the best part of last night’s Community. His spot-on Christian Bale-as-Batman impersonation had me chuckling from “There’s a storm building on the horizon” to “Happy Halloween.” Batman seems to be enjoying a little pop-culture resurgence right now, from Modern Family‘s mention of the Caped Crusader this week (“Batman doesn’t get picked on because he’s a muscular genius”) to CollegeHumor’s 
For a moment — when Vicki had her hand around Elena’s throat and threatened to rip her little head off if she tried to keep her away from Jeremy, to be precise — I thought Vicki might actually be worth keeping around on the show. Later, however, when it didn’t occur to her to have sex with Damon as she complained about being bored (I thought Stefan said all the urges meld together, so why couldn’t she think about blood and sex when Damon was giving her those eyes?), I was ready to kill her myself. I know she couldn’t bed him if we were supposed to feel sorry for her when she couldn’t control her fangs around Jeremy at the school Halloween party and got staked by Stefan after she attacked Elena. (You go for the neck, not the shoulder, Vick!) But if she wasn’t going to be Damon’s love slave, then I’m fine with her exit. She did manage to get the Salvatore brothers into the same room without them threatening to kill each other — instead, they argued over the proper way to raise young vampire Vicki, with Stefan pushing his no-humans philosophy and Damon his “Snatch, eat, erase” motto. But that was gonna get old. Having a vampire with an addict mentality and impulsive personality is interesting in theory, but not when it makes her behave as stupidly and selfishly as she did when she was human. Are you sorry Vicki is gone? Let’s take it to a vote in the poll at the end of the post, friends. 
