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Like the long-running Saw franchise before it, the Paranormal Activity films have become something of a Halloween fixture over the last few years, and that looks set to continue in 2012 with the news that Paramount are moving forward with a fourth installment in the series. Considering the box office numbers for Paranormal Activity 3 [...]
After doing tremendously well at the box office this year, and setting records with its first weekend release being the best opening of a horror film to date, it will come as no surprise that Paramount have announced a fourth Paranormal Activity film will be on its way this year. The third film went straight [...]
Nostalgia is all the rage and so we turn our faces back to the past for the latest instalment of Paranormal Activity to discover what went on all those years ago to cause the events of the first two films. We’ve seen a lot of footage so far and it looks a fairly similar affair [...]
More bump filled nights for fans of Paranormal Activity as the first teasers for the latest installment of the series are revealed, along with a new trailer. Following the huge success of the low budget original last year’s sequel was bigger and not quite as effective, though there was a nice attempt to tie the [...]
Despite its humble low-budget beginnings, the Paranormal Activity franchise has done a startlingly good job not only of making Paramount Pictures a lot of money, but also of consistently scaring the bejesus out of us around the last two Halloweens. This year looks to be no different as the aptly titled Paranormal Activity 3 hits [...]
Gustavo Hernandez’ debut film The Silent House (La Casa Muda) takes inspiration from a real life case which happened nearly seventy years ago, and the Uruguayan horror film has played to festival crowds and had a limited release over here in UK cinemas in April. Now the film comes to DVD and we had the [...]
Horror sequel The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes is heading into production this summer via Dimension Films and Miramax, with a release date scheduled for early next year. What’s that you say? The 2005 remake of the 70’s original failed to make a dent at the box office, so why this new sequel? This time [...]
Claiming to be based on a true story, The Silent House is a daring and captivating new Uruguayan horror film from director Gustavo Hernández. The film focuses on Laura (Florencia Colucci) and her father, Wilson (Gustavo Alonso), as they move into an empty house in order to renovate it in preparation for its impending sale. The owner leaves them with [...]
Now that MGM has returned to a more secure footing courtesy of a $500m capital injection last year, they are finding the time to properly trawl through all of their various “stuck in limbo” projects to see what can be dusted off and shocked back to life. MGM has already come on board with Paramount [...]
Paramount Insurge, the new division set up to develop micro-budget films after Paranormal Activity’s success, has acquired an as-yet-untitled murder mystery film for worldwide distribution. William Brent Bell (Stay Alive) is attached to direct, while Fernanda Andrade (Fallen), Simon Quarterman (Perfect Strangers), Evan Helmuth (Ready or Not) and Suzan Crowley (Christabel) will star. A young [...]
I have a confession. I’m a bit of a wimp bloody coward. I’m afraid of the dark, heights, small spaces, flying, dogs, flying dogs, dinosaurs… The list is pretty much endless. I’m also not the biggest fan of horror films. So when I was asked by HeyUGuys to watch Paranormal Activity 2, then go ghost [...]
The sequel to last year’s surprise horror hit Paranormal Activity (imaginatively entitled Paranormal Activity 2) has scored the highest-grossing opening weekend ever for a horror movie, pulling in an estimated $41.5 million. The original ended up making an incredible $107m (against a production budget of $15,000!), and the sequel is another success story in low-budget, [...]
We’re only a month away from the second round of Paranormal Activity, and the marketing machine is doing well in building up the tension for Tod Williams’ film. In particular a series of viral videos pertaining to Paranormal Activity 2 have been sent out to various websites and today Dave was sent a memory stick [...]
Hallowe’en is almost upon us, and with it comes another bout of Paranormal Activity. Tod Williams takes over from Oren Peli to direct the sequel which, from what we’ve seen, seeks to scare seven shades of spooky out of us with the same home video footage as the first. This time there’s a baby involved. [...]
With Paranormal Activity 2 due for release next month in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, Japan has decided to go into production with a local language sequel to the 2009 horror smash. Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Japanese distributor-come-production company Presidio Corporation has tentatively scheduled Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night for a December release. [...]
The Last Exorcism received its UK premiere last weekend at Film4′s Frightfest and went down a storm, you can read our review here, and it’s great to see a horror film provoking a lot of debate, not only over the issues contained within the film, but also about how horror is evolving as a genre. [...]
Thanks to Bloody-Disgusting, we have some news regarding the remakes of two of Stephen King’s best loved stories, It and Pet Sematary. Unfortunately, along with Misery, these two are also probably the best King horror adaptations to have hit screens (but only because Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption dont count). They are certainly [...]
With the Saw franchise now a Halloween tradition despite succumbing rather heavily to the law of diminishing returns it seems as if Paramount are capitalising on the roaring success of Oren Peli’s micro-budgeted Paranormal Activity by scheduling the release date for the sequel for October 22nd, 2010. Heat Vision have the scoop and highlight the [...]
The fantastic friend of quality films that is the Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel has brought to our attention that they are again showing some classic films and hosting some brilliant sounding events in the coming month due to the success of their excellent 80′s film series back in October and it’s all starting off with [...]
