Spielberg said he is so horrified watching 'Paranormal Activity' dat he close it and watch it the next daylight....
tu aku copypes dari status fb kwn aku...
lepas tu, try gugel2 pasal movie ni...
OVER ONE MILLION FANS DEMAND PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Hit Film Gets Nationwide Expansion After Unprecedented Demands
HOLLYWOOD, CA (October 9, 2009) – 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.
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
Synopsis: A haunted house makes no secret of the fact it is not pleased with itsnew tenants in this independent tale of supernatural horror. Katie(Katie Featherson) and Micah (Micah Sloat) are a... Ahaunted house makes no secret of the fact it is not pleased with itsnew tenants in this independent tale of supernatural horror. Katie(Katie Featherson) and Micah (Micah Sloat) are a twentysomething couplewho've just moved into a new home in San Diego, California. Katie hasan interest in the paranormal and believes that malevolent spirits havebeen following her since childhood, though Micah is not so easilyconvinced. However, after several nights of loud noises and strangehappenings, Micah starts to agree with Katie that some sort of ghostmay have followed them to the new home. After a paranormal researchertells the couple he can't help them, Micah decides to take control ofthe situation and sets up a battery of video cameras so that if aspirit manifests itself, he can capture its behavior on tape. Once thesurveillance cameras are in place, Katie and Micah bring in a Ouijaboard in an effort to talk to the spirits, a move that deeply offendsthe ghosts. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY was the first feature film fromwriter-director Oren Peli. [Less]
A low-budget horror film that's the rage at box offices is teaching Hollywood's highly paid actors, producers and other film pros that mega-budget blockbusters are not the only way to connect with audiences.
In an age when the average Hollywood production is well north of 100 million dollars, Paranormal Activity was filmed by first-time director Oren Peli in his own house for under 15,000 dollars. That's less than many producers spend on their weekly champagne budget.
But the movie still brought in almost 8 million dollars over the weekend, when it played in just 159 cinemas, and millions more in ticket sales are sure to follow when the film goes into wide release.
Much of its success has been credited to an innovative marketing campaign by Paramount, which used popular websites like Facebook and Twitter to build strong word-of-mouth recommendations. But the movie has also been highly acclaimed by no less than Steven Spielberg, who nabbed the rights to the movie before his Dreamworks Studio split from Paramount.
The movie is of the 'found-footage' genre, pioneered years ago in The Blair Witch Project, and purports to be made up entirely of amateur video footage taken by a young suburban couple, who place a camera in their bedroom to try to find out the cause of all those strange noises they were hearing in the night.
Unlike most horror movies, there is no gore and almost no blood.
As the Israeli-born Peli puts it: 'Nothing you could ever show, with props or CGI, is ever going to be as a scary as your imagination. There's just this invisible force. It could be right next to you.'
Peli has no formal film training but was a video-game designer, and his experience in creating a narrative in the relatively low- graphic mode of early video games allows him to manipulate audiences with little more than a flickering shadow or slowly moving door.
Spielberg, who in movies like Poltergeist and Jaws showed his own spine-tingling skill, paid tribute to Peli's vision, telling USA Today that he was so scared he had to stop watching the movie the first night he saw it, and finish it during daylight hours.
'What Oren does so brilliantly - and sadistically - to audiences with this film is its accumulation of small events,' Spielberg said.
'That creates a slow burn, so that when something occurs that is shocking, it multiplies the impact on the audience. He doesn't rush the scares and really takes his time with it. That's the magical elixir that makes this film so frightening.'
Paramount decided to maximize that effect by first releasing the movie only for midnight screenings in a handful of college towns. As word spread over the internet, the studio set up an online petition for would-be ticket buyers to request screenings in their towns, which led to a rollout last weekend in 40 cities.
Paramount promised that it would release the film nationwide when 1 million people signed up, a milestone that was reached Saturday.
So far, audiences have shrieked and laughed, clapped and cowered, screamed and cursed throughout the movie, as the San Diego couple try to deal with the hostile presence in their bedroom. As the website DreadCentral.com noted: 'The entire audience was freaked out of their mind.'
Hollywood has certainly taken notice of the rave reactions.
Paramount has given Peli a 5-million-dollar budget for his next movie, Area 51. This will also feature a 'found footage' narrative structure that tells the story of three teens whose curiosity leads them to the notorious Area 51 on Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada desert, which is often said to house evidence of aliens.
Peli's fans will be hoping that that the money doesn't spoil him.
'It's amazing what he did in Paranormal Activity,' UCLA film student Max Henderson said. 'I know it was only fiction, but I was scared for days afterwards.'
Post Last Edit by gjoy_chester at 19-10-2009 20:49
katanya scariest movie of all time...harus tengok ni, lagi pun aku suka konsep filem video cam mcm ni..eg; Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, Quarantine..
finally dah ada org bukak thread ni.. huhue..
aku mmg tertunggu2lah kalau nak tayang kat cinema..
tapi.. mesti aku nak tunggu yg donlod dulu..
kat torrent takde lagi..
padahal citer ni tahun 2007..
aku mmg suka sgt citer ala2 blair witch.. since blair witch ni to me one of the best movie aku pernah tgk..
REC pun sama..
maknanya aku suka ala2 filem yg nampak cam real lah..
aku nak tunggu dvdrip dulu.. sbb FYI yg screener ni ending dia lain drpd yg kat wayang..
katanya yg screener ni samada steven spielberg bg idea ataupun written kat part ending tu...
Post time 16-10-2009 09:13 PM
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