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Paranormal Activity

2007

Oren Peli

Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Amber Armstrong, Mark Fredrichs ...

5.4

33,141

Horror After a young, middle class couple -Katie (Katie Featherston) and boyfriend Micah (Micah Sloat)- moves into what seems like a typical San Diego suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

Budget: $11,000. Box Office First Week: $7,9M. Total Gross so far: $99M.

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It does have an ingenious, if not terribly original, formal conceit — that everything on-screen is real-life amateur video — that is executed with enough skill to make you jump and shriek."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It will fry your nerves and creep you out big time without spending a dime on obvious special effects. (...) the tension builds and builds and builds until the dread ties your stomach in knots. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An ingenious little horror film, so well made it's truly scary, (...) For extended periods here, nothing at all is happening, and believe me, you won't be bored. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This suburban drama skips genre cliches, to come up with a claustrophobic classic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Horror fans who value credible creepiness over the usual splatdom will welcome [it]"	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"It’s a conceptually tight and very efficient updating of the classic haunted-house genre (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Simon Crook Empire	"Potent, primal and genuinely frightening (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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