Paranormal Activity
 

Plot:

A young couple suspects that their house is haunted by a malevolent entity. They set up video surveillance to capture evidence of what happens at night as they sleep.

Their surveillance and home videos have been edited into the 99 minute feature film "Paranormal Activity".

Website & trailers: http://ParanormalActivity-movie.com

Screening of "Paranormal Activity"
 

You are invited to an exclusive one-time only screening of "Paranormal Activity".

When: Sunday, October 14th, 5:30 pm

Where: Grauman Mann's Chinese 6, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028


Paranormal Activity is a terrifying supernatural thriller featuring shocking footage of a demonic haunting.

Katie and Micah have been enjoying a happy, carefree life. Their future looked promising until bizarre events started occurring at nighttime. Katie was no stranger to paranormal phenomena – she has been stalked by a malevolent entity since childhood, and she feared that it had followed her to their new home. They purchase a video camera to find out what happens at night as they sleep.

Over the course of three weeks in September & October of 2006, they ran nightly surveillances and captured incredible proof of Paranormal Activity. The nightly surveillance footage and home videos have been edited into the feature film “Paranormal Activity”.


Special 10 minute peek at A & E's new supernatural series PARANORMAL STATE precedes the screening of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.

Q&A session for Paranormal State will follow the screenings.

Ryan Buell - Star of Paranormal State, Founder of Penn State's Paranormal Research Society

Betsy Schecter: Four Seasons Productions, President. Paranormal State, Executive Producer

Gary Aurbach: Go Go Luckey Productions, Founder/President. Paranormal State, Executive Producer


Note: THIS IS A ONE TIME ONLY ENGAGEMENT. There are no future screenings planned at this time.

For more information, visit our website: http://paranormalactivity-movie.com/

how much to get in?

It's part of SCREAMFEST? Good job!

I just clicked your site and watched the trailer. Very Nice, I'll be there.

BUMP !

I just watched the trailer for this, and it looks completely insane, even if the hand held camera is getting a tad bit gimmicky.

Has anyone seen this, or have any info on when it will be released ?

Dreamworks bought it after it's last festival showing. They plan to have the original's dvd release alongside the remake's theatrical. No date has been set yet, I believe.

Oh... an actual response. How very fortunate! :rolleyes:

I'm hoping this gets distributed. I haven't seen [rec] yet, but from what I've heard about it, this looks like it could be just as spooky.

New horor Paranormal Activity (2007)
 

It's was made 2007 but it will be coming this year

out in the US on 25 September 2009 (limited)
not sure about the UK

This one most scary trailer I have seen, you should NOT watch before you go bed lol

pllot A happy, carefree couple is haunted by a demonic spirit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074

I Can not wait to see this movie

Interested in Impressions of Paranormal Activity
 

I was just wondering if anyone has had a chance to catch Paranormal Activity. I keep reading great feedback for this flick, and I'm hoping it will make its way to my area.

What did you think of the movie?

I keep hearing people mention Blair Witch when describing this (please tell me it is nothing like Blair -- hated that movie).

Whoa! Talk about a REAL blast from the past!!

Welcome back, Hap. Been missing you around these parts. Hope you stick around, bud. :)

Regarding Paranormal Activity, havent seen it yet but it looks pretty promising from the trailers. Pretty keen myself to check it out.

HAHA! I know man. Haven't been here in a while. Thank you. I have a soft spot for this place...just seem to always lose touch. Hopefully I can stick around.

If you go to their site, you can "demand" to get the movie in your area. Hopefully they will expand the release. I get all beside myself when I read overwhelmingly positive reviews for a modern-day horror flick...because there aren't many cases.

Got back a little while ago from the screening in MI

Does it live up to the hype? No, not even close. Was it good? Yes, it was good. It's worth a watch but I would wait until wide release or DVD release unless of course the selected theaters are located near you Was it scary? There were two scenes that were creepy and eerie but nothing over the top terrifying. The first 45 minutes were beyond boredom, very slow moving. Over an hour into the movie I was actually getting pissed at how boring and dull it was. Finally it picks up. I think to myself, here we go, now it's going to get going on. 15 minutes later, the movie ends.

I do not understand the hype and praise this has received. It was a good movie and definitely worth a watch but scariest movie of all time.....get real. It was very realistic and quite believable I'll give it that but the scares, while extremely real, were too simple and weak. And the actress won an award? I thought her acting was mediocre although the husband was a great actor and hilarious. I sit in amazement and ask myself....who the hell was writing these reviews?

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE

Check it out! I'm a ghost!
"Waooooooooooooooooooooooooh!"
*floats*
...and such

Thanks much for the input, Shady. I feel better now. I'm not going out of my mind trying to figure out how I'm gonna see the damn movie. I think I can wait til the DVD comes out. The hype sounds a little too much like the hype that surrounded Blair Witch (where the actual result sucked -- for me).

Thanks again.

Where do you go and see it? Looks like Thur. I'm going to see Zombieland and Paranormal Activity at the State Theater in Ann Arbor.

That's where I saw it at, the State Theater. Fair warning, that theater is a piece of shit, most uncomfortable movie experience I've ever had in a theater. Don't sit next anyone big or you won't be able to move.

I know, I went and saw Ghostbusters there this summer. The Michigan Theater isn't much better, pretty cramped when I went and saw Teeth. I only live about 15 minutes away though so catching some of the harder to find flicks or great midnight movies isn't a chore.

Paranormal Activity
 

Without giving me any spoilers, is this worth checking out?

I just saw it. I really liked it. I am not usually scared by a movie . Usually I am checking out the gore and the camera angles and edits. This was pov shot with a small cam maybe one of those RED cam things cost 10G's or what ever. So anyway I got really invested in the characters they seems like real people. Even in the "ass in jean shots" the girl is wearing regular panties no G string. Just a big ass no slice. and i liked the build up to the scares you get to know the two people living in the house. And i can tell you that the hairs on my head and neck were sanding up in a few scenes. But I was really into it. the people i went with didn't like it but i think it was the build up was too long for them. But I bet they would love Rosemary's Baby.
slight spoiler drag over to read so after I saw it I was thinking about it and I found some holes in it. One is when any of the cast walks through the house after the alarm is set the motion sensor never goes off and if the patio door was opened it should go off too. There is one on the stair case.

i recommend watching

i want to see it - but i imagine it won't come near me and i'm not sure its worth a trip

After a few weeks of sold out midnight screenings, Paramount Pictures' $11k indie haunt film has pulled in an estimates $7 MILLION over the course of its full limited release this past weekend.

What will happen when this goes wide on Friday?

Will we have another Blair Witch on our hands?

It looks highly possible and it's all because of you, the audiences. Like it or not, cherish this moment, you guys pushed a little indie film through the cracks and left big Hollywood scratching their heads.

Following 2-weeks of nationwide midnight-only sellouts and fan frenzy over the limited release hit thriller Paranormal Activity, moviegoers everywhere have been heard!

Over 1,000,000 people from around the country demanded the film play in their city by logging on to ParanormalMovie.com.

In response, Paramount Pictures will release the film nationwide beginning Friday, October 16th. Mark your calendars, it's on!

Get ahead of the game as tickets for the movie will be on sale via ParanormalMovie.com by 5pm PST on Tuesday, October 13th. Those who have ‘demanded it’ will get the first alert when tickets go on sale.

“From the very beginning, we put this film in the hands of the fans and we trusted them to tell us where and when it should be seen. We couldn’t be more thrilled by their overwhelming support and we are happy to release the film in every town - big and small,” said Rob Moore, Vice Chairman of Paramount Pictures.

The movie Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times called ““an ingenious horror film. It’s so well made it’s truly scary” is currently garnering 90% on RottenTomatoes.com.

To find show times and to buy tickets in your area, visit ParanormalMovie.com.

I did sign the online "demand it" to get the film in theaters. Then after seeing the film I checked back to the site and watched the counter go to 1,000,000 the only problem was that there was a pattern to the count would increase by 4 then by 3 then by 4 then by 3. So looks like it was just a fake count just to raise interest.
But I really liked it.

Paranormal Activity
 

Has anyone seen this yet? Is it really as terrifying as the previews claim? I'm wanting to see this one...

Paranormal Activity, which stands at number five on the American and Canadian box office charts, may be arguably the biggest success of the decade.

The movie, which cost an unbelievably low $15,000 (less than the cost of a minute of screen time of a big budget summer blockbuster film), grossed about $7 million from just about 160 screens in North America. It started with midnight screenings on college campuses three weeks ago with little Internet advertising.

Even if it were to drop by 50 percent in the coming weeks, Paranormal may end up with at least $20 million in North America, with the possibility of doing better business abroad.

Many people, including critics, are comparing it to The Blair Witch Project -- another film costing hardly anything, which came from nowhere, built a cult following, and then burst into the mainstream and earned about $250 million worldwide in 1999. That horror film was made for $60,000 and caught on with the younger viewers thanks to the Internet buzz. It made about $29 million in its opening weekend in North America.

Hollywood insiders do not expect Paranormal to be as huge a hit as Blair Witch but the former has already become hugely profitable. A movie has to earn (in theatres and through ancillary sales) about 50 percent of its production and advertising costs to break even.

The lovers of psychological thrillers and horror movies may readily confess that Paranormal is not Rosemary's Baby, the classic horror film directed by Roman Polanski. Most of the reviews for the new film aren't inspiring. But word of mouth has been strong.

Israeli-born writer-director Oren Peli, a video-game designer for about a decade, shot the film in his house in Los Angeles with hardly any money, no stars and no studio backing till the film was shown at the Sundance film festival.

Peli tells the story of a middle-class San Diego couple Micah (Micah Sloat) and Katie (Katie Featherston) haunted by strange noises in their new home. Micah sets up night-vision camera and a roving camcorder in their bedroom. Katie has a history of otherworldly encounters, going back to her childhood. The young couple also calls a psychic. But their problems just get louder and scarier.

It is not that all critics disliked the film. Los Angeles Times' Betsy Sharkey wrote: Peli 'has created a psychological thriller of such small scale and yet such heightened effect that no doubt Hitchcock, wherever he may be, is smiling.

'Though the story does not have either the sophistication or the complexity of the master, the first-time director understands that it's what you don't see, and the way in which you don't see it, that counts.'

Roger Ebert wrote in Chicago-Sun Times: 'An ingenious horror film. It's so well made it's truly scary.'

MTV.com, which is owned by Paramount, gives credit to the film's success to the grass-root strategy by the studio-distributor.

When Paramount started showing the film on campuses, 'it also harnessed the power of social gathering through sites like Twitter and Eventful, fans,' MTV com said. Students in the cities that the film was not showing were encouraged to 'demand' midnight shows.

On the Website for the film, Paramount declared: The first-ever major film release decided by you.

With the Internet and word of mouth creating huge publicity for the film over a month, Paramount took the first big step of releasing the film for regular screenings. Next week, the distributor could expand the film to 300 screens or more.

The movie could have been released two years ago when Steven Spielberg and other DreamWorks executives first saw it. Focus screenings also created a big buzz for the film then.

'Unfortunately, business got in the way when Paramount and DreamWorks split in 2008, and the Paranormal release was delayed,' notes MTV. Com. 'Buzz was out though, and it wouldn't be silenced. It only grew through Paramount's -- who took the reins post-DreamWorks -- aggressive grassroots campaigning.'

Paramount, which also released Rosemary's Baby more four decades ago, is indeed lucky. With Paranormal, it could have one of the most profitable films of all time.

Grrr....I hate to wait for this one.:mad:

Are you kidding me?
 

Hey there all, first time poster here...

Let me first explain where I'm coming from... I am a LONG time horror fan. I have seen almost everything from the most tame to the most bloody, gory, scary etc... i LOVE horror.

My wife and I went and saw PA last week. This movie was AWEFULL! it was not the least bit scary at all. the first hour was nothing at all, then the last half hour when things started to happen... is seeing a shadow on a door really scary? footprints in flour? a girl getting dragged down a hallway? a ouja board bursting into flames? come on. is this really waht people are considering a good scary movie?

Seeing the reactions of the crown i was shocked. people screaming and yelling when the sheets of the bed moved. my wife and i were just laughing throughout all of this. We were not only laughing at how stupid the movie was but that people in the audience were actually scared of any of this.

Maybe after seeing as much horror, gore and such, we are just de-sensitized to it now?

But I'm sorry, i cannot fathom how anyone was scaed at anypoint of this move.

I was MORE then let down...

Gromet

I couldn't agree more. I kind of wanted those 2 irritating losers to die the whole time.

Might go to the midnight showing tonight. I gotta convince the woman to stay up late, though.

I thought from the trailer that the premise was original and interesting and came asking about it when I first heard about it a while ago.

I posted a question about this movie when I first signed up to this site and was accused of viral marketing or being a spammer, I forgot which one.

But I find it strange that this movie was made in 2007 and it's just being released NOW in theatres. Is this viral marketing gone amok?

Still in all I think I'll go check it out just for the sake of curiosity.

I've seen this movie three times already. The first time I saw it I was disappointed probably because of the ridiculous hype it has received and I was expecting something else. Not to mention I was in the smallest theater and could not even movie. The sound system was pathetic and the audience screamed and laughed every second. This movie was not scary at all, at least in my opinion although it was extremely creepy and chilling. Most of the scenes are recycled but they give each scene a fresh feeling to it. There is comedy throughout and I love how they are able to spread comedy through the entire movie and still maintain a scare factor. If you don't give the audience something to laugh at they will find something to laugh at. After the second watch it grew on me big time and I now love the movie. It was over hyped in the sense of "scariest movie of all time" but it was a great movie.

I'll definitely get my hands on the DVD when it comes out.

Well if it's supposedly as scary as so many people say you might want to see it in theaters. I'm thrilled because today I found out it's playing in a theater really close to me. Hopefully going to see it soon :)

No way.

Can't stand theaters. Too many annoying people.

I think this one drew the most annoying crowd I've ever had to endure, but I can't imagine it having any impact at all on a DVD.

Unless you've got a 1080p DLP projector, theater room with 110'' screen, Bluray player and 5.1 surround sound installed... (not bragging though) :cool:

...I'll be waiting for the DVD version as well.

Good point... I hadn't considered the crowds. Well, I'm still going to see it probably this Tuesday... I'll let you guys know how it was :)

I'm going to wait for it to die down a bit. Every time I get on Facebook to send something to my friend I see at least 3 status updates "paranormal activity tonite! <3 text it!" and that's never a good sign for a movie.

That's ridiculous, if you watch it on DVD with your SO or by yourself in a dark house it's bound to have MORE of an impact. The "protection" of the crowd isn't there and the movie (which is SUPER creepy but maybe not very "scary") will be complimented nicely by the sounds that make their way inside from the dark.

This movie was awesome!!! Best horror movie I've seen in a while. It made me jump a couple of times. I can't wait for the blu ray.

Saw it on Friday night, which was a HUGE mistake being opening weekend and the theater was flooded with OBNOXIOUS giggling, talking, yelling teenagers who make me want to advocate for forced sterilization...

But anyway. While the audience tried its best to ruin any atmosphere that the movie was attempting to create, I think that I was able to have a few take-aways... Though I think it'll be much, much better when I can watch it in my bedroom alone at night...

Paranormal Activity was good. Does it live up to the apparent hype that it's getting? No (I'm actually glad that I somehow missed the hype before seeing the movie; otherwise it would have REALLY been ruined). The fact of the matter is, this movie is a solid 3.5/4 out of 5 stars, which is better than a lot of the canned horror crap that comes out these days.

The Positives:

• The movie is definitely successful at creating mood.
• The movie definitely had legitimately creepy parts
• The movie was DEFINITELY successful at creating a threat
• I am impressed that with a small budget and only four actors, I felt as though I was brought into this little world of horror. Hats off to them.

The Negatives:

• One word: Derivative. Haunting movies have been done. The hand-held genre is currently being overused. And I'm actually starting to get tired of the whole "this is a tape that we just happened to find" set up.
• Paranormal Activity doesn't do a whole lot to evolve the hand-held camera vehicle. While Cloverfield successfully experimented with the giant monster, [REC] successfully experimented with the zombie, and Home Movie successfully experienced with evil children, here we are back to another haunting.
• The characters seriously annoyed me at times. One of the growing issues that I have with the hand-held camera vehicle is that I am really starting to ask myself, "If your situation is so horrible, WHY IS YOUR FIRST INSTINCT TO GRAB THE CAMERA?!?!?!" This question bothered me in this film more than usual, especially since it was so successful at creating mood; I was scared, so they must be too - WHY GRAB THE CAMERA?! GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
• Which brings me to a very nit-picky point: Lighting. This movie takes place IN THEIR HOUSE. They have the choice the turn on the lights AT ALL TIMES. Yet they don't. That just bothered me. With Blair Witch at least they were in the woods - NO LIGHTS THERE. But anyway.
• Predictable. Now this is just coming from me, the jaded horror fan, but a couple of the "scares" were just plain predictable.

Regardless of the negatives, though, this movie as I said is a solid 3.5/4. It's not a perfect movie; it definitely doesn't really try to do anything new, but it's a solid derivation. I am happy that there are actors and directors out there who want to produce this type of movie at all. And sometimes that's all that the die hard horror fan can ask for. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to watching it with my boyfriend alone in the dark of our apartment.