FilmRFound Footage Demonic & Possession Supernatural

Paranormal Activity2007

Name: Paranormal Activity
Genre: Found Footage, Demonic & Possession, Supernatural, Ghosts & Haunting
Released: 2007-09-14
Rating: 6.5

“What happens when you sleep?”

Directed by Oren Peli

6.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.3Rotten Tomatoes 82%Metacritic 68TMDB 6.1

✍ Review

On the charts

#21·Top Found Footage Films

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Year

2007

Runtime

86 min

Box Office

Budget

$15,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$193,355,800

Domestic

$107,918,810

🏆 3 wins & 12 nominations total

The premise

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

Horror Vault's take

A young couple's comfortable suburban home becomes the stage for something they can neither explain nor escape, as strange disturbances begin creeping into their nights. Armed with a camera and equal parts curiosity and dread, they document the escalating presence that seems to have followed one of them for years. Built almost entirely on suggestion and sound, this micro-budget phenomenon weaponizes the ordinary — a creaking hallway, a shifting bedroom door — into pure terror. What lingers long after the credits is the suffocating sense that some things cannot be reasoned away.

Content: Jump Scares, Disturbing Imagery, Demonic Themes