Since "Paranormal Activity" stomped all over "Saw VI" at the box office this weekend, it was only a matter of time before someone wrote about how creativity and risk-taking are rewarding, shaking up Hollywood and reminding executives not to write off the audience. So thank you, Patrick...
Horror is in a strange place right now. In a genre currently steeped in remakes, "Paranormal Activity" has become the first original nail-biter to break through to the masses since "Saw," whose sixth installment showed its (and torture porn in general's) age by coming in second...
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Filed under: The Blair Witch Project, Eli Roth, Zeitgeist, Paranormal Activity, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, Ti West, Dead and Lonely, The Haunting in Georgia, Mark Borchardt, Screamfest, House of the Devil, Noah Segan, Larry Fessenden, Judah Friedlander, Lauren Moews
"Paranormal Activity" -- the low-budget heir apparent to "The Blair Witch Project," allegedly terrifying audiences into fleeing midway in fear, as opposed to the usual disgust -- has won itself a nationwide release this weekend. Paramount's marketing campaign had fanboys clicking...
There was an episode of "The Maury Povich Show" in which people confessed to serious but laughable phobias -- birds, pickles, balloons -- after which, for scientific purposes, you understand, a PA would come out and confront them with their object of terror. As I watched a housewife be chased...