Paramount just released the trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 and yes, it's still scary only now it has a big studio budget. The first Paranormal Activity was allegedly produced for $15,000 and accumulated a worldwide box office gross of $193,298,009. So naturally, that's a pattern worth repeating. Besides, most people think it was one of the scariest movies they've ever seen. It's good old-fashioned Hitchcockian suspense that imitates a home movie.
The original writer/director, Israeli immigrant Oren Peli is producing the sequel with a script written by Emmy Award winning TV scribe Michael R. Perry and directed by Kip Williams. Paranormal2 hits theatres October 22, 2010 - in time for Halloween.
In keeping with the visceral reaction of audiences who enjoyed the first Paranormal movie, you're now invited to tweet your scream! Here's the trailer. Turn the sound down to minimize the scare factor.
In case you missed the phenomenon of the first film, here's a link back to my analysis of how and why the first film worked. I also couldn't resist re-posting the sound byte taken from someone's phone in a movie theatre in Seattle last year. It really had this affect on people.
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