Imagine how ironic it would be if a director who has often been frightened of ghosts
during his life directs his 1st movie which ironically is a horror flick and the greatest irony of all: it turns into a runaway hit in the genre of horror cinema. Ironic it might appear but it really stands true for Oren Peli who was even afraid of viewing the comedy flick, Ghostbusters. Peli's debut film as a director, Paranormal Activity launched in October 2009, turned out to be the greatest hit of the year leaving behind Halloween favourite, Saw VI. The film truly produced at a shoestring spending budget of $15000 reaped millions at the box office.
What sets aside Paranormal Activity from the other horror films was Peli's distinctive raw style of presenting it as an unedited footage recorded thru a hand held household camcorder which worked out fairly properly in grabbing the interest of the viewers as a much more make-imagine experience. Someway this somewhat stationary shooting format in which digital camera seems to be resting on a tripod nearly throughout the movie produced a particular type of credibility among the viewers as if they had been unconsciously drawn nearer to the storyline and recognized themselves with the characters. Watch Paranormal Activity 2 online to find out what distinctive treatment will now be rendered to it in order to give it a fresh and distinctive appeal. Using the identical format will be awfully predictable and can spell disaster for the sequel on the box office.
Watch Paranormal Activity 2 online to see Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, the lead pair that starred in the initial part, come together once again. Nevertheless this time Oren Peli will return as a producer and not the director of the 2nd installment of this hugely successful horror footage. Paranormal Activity 2 is scheduled to hit the theatres in October 2010. Paramount signed screenwriter Michael R. Perry to pen the sequel and they had also initially approached Kevin Greutert of Saw VI fame to direct the follow up. However, a specific clause in Greutert's contract with Lions Gate Entertainment binds him to direct the forthcoming sequel in the Saw sequence. So instead Tod Williams has directed Paranormal Activity 2.
But what would really create a frantic curiosity among the horror hungry viewers is the large news that Cinemark had to remove the teaser trailer of the film from many Texas theatres following getting many complaints that it is too scary. Watch Paranormal Activity 2 online to find out if it is really true or just a rumor floating close to to up the sales and get the cash rolling in.