2. Films
The Paranormal Series so far consists of Three Films, The first is about the
‘Demon’ haunting the character ‘Katie’, The second is a prequel showing
how she became to be haunted and the third is a Prequel and shows how
the hauntings came about.
3. Production
The film originally an independent low budget film and was screened
at a film festival in 2007.
Paranormal Activity was then acquired by Paramount Pictures, who
are owned by Viacom, for $350,000 and was given a then given a
limited theatrical release in September 2009 in the USA and finally
released worldwide in October 2009.
At box office it made $194 Million worldwide making it the most
profitable film ever made based on returned investment.
Oren Peli Was the director of the film and he was afraid of ghosts, he
took a year to prepare his house for the shooting of the film whilst
researching ghosts and demonology.
The message the film was trying to convey was ‘If there's something
lurking in your house, there's not much you can do about it.
4. Paranormal Activity 2
After the success of the first film a prequel was
released set 2 months before the first.
Budget was $3 Million
Made $177 Million at box office
5. Paranormal Activity 3
In 2011 another Prequel to the Paranormal
Activity series was released this was set 18 years
before the other 2 films in the series.
The film set a new record for a midnight opening
horror film taking $8 Million
Budget was $5 Million
Box office took $205 Million
