Paranormal Activitybecame the most profitable horror movie with a fraction of what a regular Hollywood movie spends on a single actor, and Oren Peli didn't even have to exit his house. It all proves how a good premise and a careful execution is more important than the initial budget of a ...
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people are still willing to fork over hefty movie prices for grainy shots of strangers running down hallways. Often credited as reigniting the genre,The Blair Witch Projectgrossed a worldwide totalof $248.6 million, paving the way for more recent heavy hitters likeCloverfieldandParanormal Activity....
5.Paranormal Activity(2007) Why It’s On The List:From an original budget of about $15,000,Paranormal Activitywent on to gross almost $200 million worldwide. No wonder it became the first of a new batch of found-footage horror films, which only really slowed down in the last few years...
1408is a 2007 film based on a short story by Stephen King of the same name. It follows a man who began to investigate claims of paranormal activity after the loss of his daughter, only to come to the disappointing conclusion that there was nothing past death. However, all of this changed...
Paranormal Activity About The Author Matthew Mahler (400 Articles Published) Managing Editor and critic for MovieWeb. Lover of film, philosophy, and theology. Amateur human. Contact him at matthew.m@movieweb.com Trending Now Sylvester Stallone Refused To Say One Of James Gunn’s Juvenile Lines...
It is true that the found footage subgenre has met its fall in the last decade, as the “Paranormal Activity” series lead an abnormal class of horror movies of the kind just because they were cheap to produce and earned big at the box office, but M. Night Shyamalan’s take was some ...
As co-president and founder of my high school’s Horror Movie Club (created solely so we could skip third hour once a week to watch movies), I thought it was important to see every Wes Craven film. Alas, this was nothing like “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” It was far scarier because...
While the series continues to cover everything from suspicious deaths to missing persons cases to paranormal activity, the rebooted Unsolved Mysteries ditched the anthology format. Instead of a series of segments about various mysteries, each episode focuses on one case. Gone too is the ominous yet...
This expansive and storied country is brimming with ghost stories, apparitions, haunted houses, and other hot spots of paranormal activity that date back centuries and persist to the modern day. In which states are horror aficionados most likely to get their fix of the heebie-jeebies? With ...