![]() This year The Possession began the ghoul parade in late summer, Aug.31, and it has continued with a new haunted-house movie nearly every week. 21, now in its 22nd year), at kitsch museums (Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors) and in Hollywood’s fall schedule of pre-Halloween horror films. Not missing a trick, or a treat, the entertainment-industrial complex has extended a single fright night into an entire season, in theme parks (Universal Florida’s Halloween Horror Nights, which stretch over six weeks beginning Sept. Attending a Paranormal movie is now just that: a rite of fall, with predictable autumnal shivers, like a Halloween jaunt in, say, Alaska. PA and its two sequels have totted up a $576.6 million global gross on a production investment of about $8 million, or a $72 return on every dollar spent shooting.īut when you expect the shock - hear the tiptoeing, spot the car, see the same spooky door in another film - that’s merely a habit. ![]() Shot in a week in 2007 for $15,000 and finally released in 2009, it earned $193.4 million at theaters around the world. In so many ways, Oren Peli’s film proved that less is more. Ah, the pleasures of horror-movie subtlety: when the conventions of the genre are stripped to the bone and the scariest part is not the monster but the waiting. That last one, in the original Paranormal Activity, made movie audiences jump in tandem, as if ordered to by a gym teacher. Someone tiptoes up behind you and goes boo! A car zips out of a side street into your lane.
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