How do you turn $15,000 into $100 million in a few months? If you're enterprising, Israeli-born filmmaker Oren Peli, you write and direct a low budget, supernatural horror movie, shoot it at your own house in your spare time and watch as that modest vision becomes a 21st century Blair Witch Project. Paranormal Activity is a phenomenon, scaring the life out of audiences with its deceptively simple narrative and grainy camerawork, captured by characters as they hunt for an evil spirit in their home. Various cuts of the film have been screened at festivals around the world but the version set to terrorise British cinemagoers is a genuinely creepy encounter with things that go bump in the night.
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