According to Entertainment Weekly, there was also an ending they never filmed: “A possessed Katie corners Micah and bludgeons him with his precious camera, while viewers watch from the camera’s POV.” 7. The alternate ending features Katie gruesomely slitting her throat, and the theatrical ending is what most people saw in the theaters when Katie supposedly kills Micah and becomes possessed by the demon.

The original entails cops coming into the house the next day and shooting and killing Katie. Speaking of the ending: The above video simultaneously shows all three endings, with the original being twice as long as the others. Despite the shock, Spielberg loved the movie and even suggested a new ending, which is the one audiences ended up seeing in the theatrical release. “It’s not something the marketing department just came up with before releasing the movie.” Spielberg famously carried the DVD to work in a trash bag because he thought it was haunted. personally I believe it,” Peli told Moviefone. “So the whole story about how the doors to his bedroom got locked from the inside. STEVEN SPIELBERG THOUGHT HIS DVD OF THE FILM WAS HAUNTED.Īs the urban legend goes, Spielberg, whose DreamWorks Studios was considering distributing Paranormal Activity, took a DVD of the movie home to watch, but then got freaked out when the door to his bedroom locked by itself.

DreamWorks originally wanted to remake the film, but eventually decided it was scarier as is. Though they failed to get the movie into Sundance, it did screen at Slamdance, another Park City, Utah film festival, in January 2008. Producer Jason Blum helped Peli get an agent, and they started submitting the film all over town looking for a distributor. Paranormal Activity premiered at Los Angeles’s Screamfest in 2007, where Katie Featherston won an award for Best Actress. THE MOVIE KICKED AROUND THE FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. I didn’t see another horror film until I was well into my twenties.” Peli’s fear of the unknown, especially the strange sounds he heard in his own house, partially inspired him to make Paranormal Activity. I was in my mid-teens when Ghostbusters came out and although I knew it was a comedy, I couldn't handle the idea of it.

After that I couldn’t watch any movie that had anything to do with a haunting or a ghost. “I saw it when I was 11,” Peli told The Guardian in 2009. THE EXORCIST DISTURBED PELI SO MUCH THAT HE COULDN’T WATCH GHOSTBUSTERS. He used a home movie camera, filmed in his own house, hired unknown actors who helped with the production, and edited down 70 hours of footage. “I’ve always been very comfortable with computers and software, so one thing that’s made my life easier is the fact that I was very quickly able to figure out how to edit the movie, how to do the audio mixing, and the CGI that’s in the movie,” Peli told Moviefone in 2009. Oren Peli's background was as a software developer, a skill that provided him with the technical know-how to shoot a low-tech movie. OREN PELI HAD NEVER WORKED ON A MOVIE BEFORE PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. Its 2010 sequel, Paranormal Activity 2, currently holds the 13th spot on that same list. Often compared to The Blair Witch Project because of its low-budget nature and huge grosses, 10 years after The Blair Witch Project’s release, the original Paranormal Activity ousted the earlier horror film to become the second most profitable movie of all time, based on return on investment (ROI).

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