Paranormal Activity (2007) movie poster

Paranormal Activity (2007)

"What happens when you sleep?"
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 75%
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Director
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.0/10 (5,364 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Metacritic
68

Cast

Katie Featherston as Katie Featherston · 75% avg
Micah Sloat as Micah Sloat
Mark Fredrichs as The Psychic
Amber Armstrong as Amber
Ashley Palmer as Diane
Crystal Cartwright as Exorcism Nanny (uncredited)
Spencer Marks as Dr. Johann Averies (uncredited)
Randy McDowell as Lt. Randy Hudson (uncredited)

Is Paranormal Activity good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 75%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#134 / 1168 · Horror
Rank in its year
#29 / 198 · 2007

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American found-footage supernatural horror film written and directed by Oren Peli, one of the most profitable films in cinema history relative to its budget. The film is presented as the recovered footage from a video camera set up by Micah, played by Micah Sloat, to document the increasingly disturbing supernatural phenomena experienced by his girlfriend Katie, played by Katie Featherston, in their San Diego home. The disturbances — doors moving by themselves, footsteps, shadows, and eventually physical assaults — escalate over three weeks from subtle oddities to terrifying attacks.

Paranormal Activity was shot in Oren Peli's own home for approximately $15,000, using the cast's real names and a near-complete absence of music, special effects, or visible scares to create dread through what the audience imagines rather than sees. The nighttime bedroom footage, with its static camera and time-stamp counting the hours of darkness, became a primal horror mechanism.

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