Paranormal Activity

Paranormal ActivityMarked as “one of the scariest horror movies of all time”, “Paranormal Activity”, has indeed freaked out every audience sitting in the theatres. The chiller was released throughout the nation and instantly took over the number 1 position with $22 million. Perhaps its pre-Halloween release has helped the film to get to the top so quickly. Many believe that “Paranormal Activity” has won the battle of horror movies defeating the sixth part of “Saw”, another chiller, which has been an annual fixture of Halloween since 2004.

“Saw VI” had a very disappointing beginning with just $14.8 million, which is too less compared to the $18.3 million that was the lowest profit for the original movie. On contrary all the other movies of Lionsgate’s Saw series got huge opening at $30 million or even more.

Surprisingly, this year “Paranormal Activity” grabbed all the attention and became number 1 disappointing the regular followers of Saw. As the box-office analyst for Hollywood.com Paul Dergarabedian rightly puts in: “`Paranormal’ ate their lunch,”. He said. “There’s no other way to explain it.”

“Paranormal Activity”, which can be stamped as a “low-budget movie” was reported to be shot for only $15,000. But to Paramount’s immense relief the movie became one of the most buzzed horror sensations of all time.

The movie had a narrower release in the first few weeks and was slotted into 1,945 theatres by the distributor later on – which is still two-third of the total count (3,036) of theatres for “Saw VI”. Despite of this, “Paranormal Activity” has raised its haul to $62.5 million till date. Well, it’s indeed huge when it comes to Hollywood chillers.