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Paranormal Activity (2007) -- A TV trailer for the movie Paranormal Activity.
Paranormal Activity (2007) -- While settling into her new home, Katie (Featherston) is disturbed in her sleep by a mysterious presence. Her husband, Micah (Sloat), tries to ease her fear by installing video cameras in an attempt to capture the strange behavior on tape. Bad idea.
Paranormal Activity (2007) -- While settling into her new home, Katie (Featherston) is disturbed in her sleep by a mysterious presence. Her husband, Micah (Sloat), tries to ease her fear by installing video cameras in an attempt to capture the strange behavior on tape. Bad idea.
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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   28,662 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Oren Peli (screenplay)
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Release Date:
16 October 2009 (USA) more
Tagline:
What Happens When You Sleep? more
Plot:
After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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(1271 articles)
User Comments:
Movie-making as scam artistry more (695 total)

Cast

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Katie Featherston ... Katie

Micah Sloat ... Micah

Mark Fredrichs ... The Psychic

Ashley Palmer ... Diane
Amber Armstrong ... Amber
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Randy McDowell ... Lt. Randy Hudson

Tim Piper ... Richard
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Rated R for language.
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86 min | 99 min (extended version)
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Although released by Paramount, this film is unique in that the studio's logo does not appear, nor do credits, except for one establishing copyright. more
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Revealing mistakes: On night #21 the time-stamp changes from 11:59:56PM to 11.59.57AM despite it not having turned midnight yet. more
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The Psychic: You cannot run from this- it will follow you. It may lay dormant for years. Something may trigger it to become more active and it may over time reach out to communicate with you. more
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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Movie-making as scam artistry, 10 November 2009
2/10
Author: Chaz_233 from US

This is the first movie I've seen where I wanted my money back. If you haven't seen it, relax, you're no missing anything. Or if you want to get the sense of what it's about, slip into a theater during the last 10 minutes. Because there's nothing happening the first 80 minutes. Given the low budget and no action, this movie should have cost $1 to see, it's not even worth a rental.

With the supposed success of this movie-and it wouldn't surprise me if the first weekend box office results where a lie, part of the marketing, just as those nightvision-in-the-theater ads with the phoney moviegoers getting all spooked, there's nothing scary to see, or the glowing reviews here-one can expect Hollywood to be invaded by hoaxters, is if that town weren't filled with them already, out to make a quick buck from movie-goers with future no-movie movies like this one.

It remains to see if they will get away with it a second time. Paranormal Activity 2 is apparently in the works. I'll be sure to stay away and from anything else this director gets involved in.

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