As you may already know, Paranormal Activity, first time director Oren Peli's new indie horror movie, is sweeping the internet. Fans of the movie were recently overjoyed when the film finally got a limited release for September 25th and since that announcment, the film blogs have not stopped following it.
The most recent story is about Steven Spielberg. Since he created the studio Dreamworks, he was allowed to have an advance screening copy that Paramount, the major studio that owns Dreamworks, gave him. Steven Spielberg watched the movie, but after he was done, he found that his door had been locked from the inside. He couldn't get the door open so he eventually got a locksmith to open it for him. He gave it back to Paramount in a garbage bag and claimed the DVD was "haunted". Spoooooky!
On a sidenote, Dreamworks apparently asked Oren Peli to remake the film with a bigger budget under their ownership. Peli was smart and told them that this was never going to happen. You show 'em, Oren!
Paranormal Activity is coming out this week. It is about a couple who believes there is paranormal activity going on in their own household at night. To prove it to themselves that this is not true, they set up a camera system to record everything. What they saw was recorded and edited into this movie. Oren Peli directed the movie in a style a la The Blair Witch Project using "shaky cam".
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