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A run of successful horror remakes abruptly ended in 2010, which spelled trouble for Platinum Dunes. Producer Brad Fuller explains what happened next.

For almost a decade, Platinum Dunes was one of the most successful independent production companies in Hollywood. Beginning with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, which made over $100 million on a sub-$10m budget, the studio seemed to have hit on a magical formula: make genre movies to a price, attached to classic horror titles.

Texas Chainsaw was therefore followed by a string of other remakes, all based on films from the 70s and 80s: 2005’s The Amityville Horror was followed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning in 2006; The Hitcher, Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street were all released between 2007 and 2009.

In the financial crisis era, audiences, it seemed, loved gory escapism. But in 2010, something strange happened: Platinum Dunes co-founder Brad Fuller noticed that his phone had stopped ringing.

Too often, great TV shows -- particularly horror shows -- are gone before they even have a chance to shine. It's often one of the most frustrating things about being a fan. A series will come along with a fresh perspective, compelling characters, and just enough scares to keep you hooked, only for the network to pull the plug after just one season, with either storylines and mysteries left unresolved or the potential for more standalone stories cut short. Horror shows do seem to be particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon, often getting the axe before they can sink their teeth into a loyal audience.

Many horror series were, in fact, canceled after just a single season, despite having the potential to become cult classics. These series may not have had the longest runs, but their creativity, ambition, and ability to unsettle viewers left an unforgettable impression. From grindhouse-inspired gorefests to cerebral nightmares,...

Insidious, the hit horror franchise created by genre visionaries James Wan and Leigh Whannell, was set to deliver its sixth entry in August 2025. However, we now have some bad news, as Sony Pictures Releasing has decided to push back Insidious 6 (there’s still no official title) by a whole year. The latest Insidious movie will now be released on August 21, 2026. According to Deadline, execs at Sony Pictures has now pushed the latest Insidious film to 2026 in the hopes of putting a more promising feature in its spot. Thus, they're replacing Insidious 6 with Caught Stealing, the crime thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky and based on the book of the same name by Charlie Huston. The movie stars Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Regina King, Liev Schreiber, Bad Bunny, and Vincent D'Onofrio, among others.

Caught Stealing follows former baseball player Hank Thompson as he falls into the criminal underworld of 1990s New York City.

The terrifying Paranormal Activity series, a pioneer of the modern found-footage horror genre, is making its way to streaming.

Starting January 1, 2025, Paramount+ subscribers can experience the first five films of this iconic franchise: Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2, 3, 4, and Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Known for their eerie atmospheres, chilling supernatural elements, and innovative use of found-footage storytelling, these films remain a cornerstone of 21st-century horror cinema. Whether you're a longtime fan or a newcomer to the series, these movies offer a haunting journey into the world of paranormal terror. Oren Peli directed Paranormal Activity, and also wrote that initial film.

Related How To Watch The Paranormal Activity Movies Order

Paranormal Activity is one of the most renowned found-footage supernatural horror movie franchises, but it's better if watched in the right order.

The Evolution of Terror Across Five Films

The franchise kicked off with Paranormal Activity (2007), a groundbreaking indie...

The co-creator and star of a Blumhouse found footage franchise explains why they made the jump from Netflix to Shudder. Although it's primarily known for its movie offerings, which run the gamut from Happy Death Day to Get Out, Blumhouse has had several television series with varying levels of success. Some of their more notable projects in recent years include the horror anthology Into the Dark and Prime Video's The Horror of Dolores Roach.

The production company made its mark, however, with the 2009 found footage horror Paranormal Activity. Directed by Oren Peli, and continuing in the form of several sequels, Paranormal Activity helped to propel found footage horrors as a way of telling familiar stories through a fresh lens and subverting expectations. Another mini-franchise, which has made the jump to television, would follow a few years later.

The Creep Tapes Is Now On Shudder Mark Duplass Reprises The Lead Role...

For all of its inventiveness and innovation, the horror genre's purpose can largely be summed up with one mission: scare whoever is watching. And while all of the medium's many subgenres excel at this to different degrees, few are as haunting as found footage films, those projects that use simple cameras to put the viewer into the character's space and grant them intimate insight into the terrors they're experiencing. There have been many attempts to experiment with this subgenre, yet it's shocking how few creators have tried what Oren Peli's The River did more than a decade ago by bringing the found footage style to television.

If you've been online in the last several years, you know that film fans love to make their little ranked lists of franchise movies, particularly horror fans. In addition to the fun of making a ranking, people love to use these exercises to express their individuality, often highlighting undervalued or overpraised entries in a given series as a way of going against the grain of consensus. Not that people are always looking to be contrarian; a lot of these rankings tend to strongly resemble one another. Still, you rarely find a few that are exactly alike.

Yet sometimes, a consensus is inarguably reached. As an aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes provides a decent bird's eye view of a film's reception. While it's hardly the first or last word on a movie, it certainly helps one understand the conversation at large surrounding it. There are numerous examples of movies that are generally beloved...

This post contains spoilers for the "Paranormal Activity" franchise.

When "Paranormal Activity" was first released in 2007, it was a small-scale, indie found-footage endeavor spearheaded by Oren Peli, shot with an initial budget of around $15,000. After the feature made some waves and was acquired by Paramount, the trajectory of this horror offering, which was initially meant as a standalone entry, changed forever. Now armed with a new alternate ending, "Paranormal Activity" had an unbelievably lucrative run at the box office, and this overwhelming success went on to spawn a highly profitable franchise with stories that sported interconnected timelines and a shared found footage convention. Although the first few entries feel fresh and effective, a case of franchise fatigue can be felt over time, especially with the most recent soft reboot, "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin."

It is perfectly okay to watch the "Paranormal Activity" films (check out our ranking of them here) according to release order,...

The desire to blend reality and fiction in film predates the Found Footage genre by literal decades, with classics like The Legend of Boggy Creek and even the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre dipping their toes into documentary-inspired filmmaking long before in-universe-cameras became popular.

Of course, it was only after The Blair Witch Project that creators would realize both the creative and financial potential of making movies like this – and when it comes to lucrative Pov thrills, very few could compete with Oren Peli and his DIY Paranormal Activity franchise. For over a decade, these films dominated the box-office with formulaic yet consistently entertaining scares made on a budget, with their success allowing the programmer-turned-filmmaker to invest in other spooky projects. And while I’ve already covered Peli’s over-hated Area 51 on a previous edition of The Silver Lining, today we’ll be discussing one of his most unique...

Directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez tell us how they started a found footage frenzy with their pivotal 1999 horror, The Blair Witch Project.

In 1999, a tiny indie film changed the face of horror. Its viral marketing campaign was soon adopted by bigger Hollywood movies like Cloverfield (2008). Other filmmakers rushed to make their own documentary-style shockers – most notably writer-director Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity (2007), which helped turn Blumhouse Productions into the horror powerhouse it is today.

The Blair Witch Project was the work of first-time directors (and former University of Centaal Florida film students) Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, who in the early 1990s came up with their initial concept: the movie would essentially be a faux documentary, cut together from the film and video material left behind by three investigators who vanished while investigating the legend of a witch. On an initial budget of at most $60,000, The Blair Witch Project...

What does "Pulp Fiction" have to do with low-budget horror movies? Well, the film's $8 million budget might seem like a fairly significant amount of money, but it's not the kind of figure you'd expect for a film starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, and Uma Thurman. Of course, at the time those actors weren't the bonafide megastars they'd become, or, in Travolta's case, king of the 0% Rotten Tomatoes score. Still, $8 million is more the kind of budget you'd expect for a mid-range horror movie, so it's impressive Quentin Tarantino managed to make $212 million from his off-beat postmodern pastiche.

That's not the only connection between "Pulp Fiction" and horror, either. Aside from the film's often striking depictions of violence, there's a surprising link between one of its stars and an ultra low-budget horror movie that debuted the same decade as Tarantino's film.

Bruce Willis made "Pulp Fiction" profitable before shooting even began,...

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, as well as the Halloween season, Blumhouse and AMC Theaters are re-releasing Paranormal Activity as part of AMCs Blumfest. Variety reports AMC and Blumhouse are teaming up for a six-week program focusing on all things horror, which kicks off Sept. 25 with the Paranormal Activity screening. The movie stars Katie Featherstone and Micah Sloat and is directed and written by Oren Peli.

This whole month is a love letter to Halloween and our fans, Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse said. I cant believe we're already celebrating the 15th anniversary of Paranormal Activity because it feels like were just getting started.

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AMCs Blumfest is being held in 54 cities in the U.

Blumhouse and AMC Theatres are celebrating Halloween starting in September and running through the end of October with AMC’s BlumFest. Every Wednesday starting September 25, Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, score one-time-only giveaways, be the first to see exclusive sneak peeks, and more.

AMC’s BlumFest marks the first time that BlumFest, the annual October celebration of all things Blumhouse, has included a national screening program. The six-week festival kicks off Sept. 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC Theatres across the U.S. and features six different repertory films – anchored by the 15th anniversary of Paranormal Activity on Sept. 25.

Festival-goers can catch their favorite Blumhouse films on the big screen, with screenings each Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time and tickets priced at a discounted rate. Plus, all attendees will receive a special poster giveaway commemorating this year’s lineup, plus see exclusive sneak peeks and exclusive...

It's been more than a decade since Paranormal Activity crawled its way to theaters. But the haunting possession story written and directed by Oren Peli will be scaring people from the big screen once again, according to Variety. Blumhouse has partnered with AMC Theaters in order to celebrate the legacy the studio has created over the years. The event known as the Blumfest will start on September 25 with Paranormal Activity, before more scary stories produced by the studio have an opportunity to be screened in theaters once more.

Blumhouse Productions has been one of the biggest names in the horror genre for a couple of decades now, and Deadline reports that this Halloween season they’re teaming up with AMC Theatres for a special event called BlumFest, which will bring six Blumhouse movies back to the big screen in 54 cities and 150 AMC multiplexes.

The six week event begins on September 25th and will see a different Blumhouse movie screening in AMC theatres every Wednesday through the night before Halloween. Deadline notes that, “Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, score one-time-only giveaways, be the first to see exclusive sneak peeks, and more.“

Here’s the line-up, starting with a 15th anniversary celebration of the release of Paranormal Activity:

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 – Paranormal Activity – written and directed by Oren Peli

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 – Lights Out – written by Eric Heisserer and David F. Sandberg and directed by David F. Sandberg

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – Insidious...

Blumhouse and the world’s No. 1 circuit AMC Theatres are kicking off BlumFest with movies from the genre production label running every Wednesday starting Sept. 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC multiplexes.

Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, score one-time-only giveaways, be the first to see exclusive sneak peeks, and more.

The national screening festival will run for six weeks, featuring five Blumhouse repertory films (as well as one from Atomic Monster) anchored by the 15th anniversary of Paranormal Activity September 25. Tickets go on sale today.

The schedule for Blumfest is as follows:

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 – Paranormal Activity – written and directed by Oren Peli Wednesday, October 2, 2024 – Lights Out – written by Eric Heisserer and David F. Sandberg and directed by David F. Sandberg, from James Wan’s Atomic Monster Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – Insidious: Chapter 2 – written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell and directed by James Wan Wednesday, October 16, 2024 – Happy Death Day – written by Scott Lobdell...

Horror staple Blumhouse is celebrating spooky season early with the highly-anticipated national screening series AMC’s BlumFest.

Blumhouse is partnering with AMC Theatres to re-release a slew of the studio’s beloved franchises, including “Happy Death Day,” “Insidious: Chapter 2,” “The Black Phone,” and “Five Nights At Freddy’s.”

Every Wednesday starting September 25, Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, earn one-time-only giveaways, and be among the first audiences to see exclusive sneak peeks at upcoming Blumhouse films, plus recorded messages from directors and talent from the festival films. All attendees will also receive a special poster giveaway commemorating the 2024 lineup.

AMC’s BlumFest marks the first time that BlumFest, the annual October celebration of all things Blumhouse, has included a national screening program.

The six-week festival kicks off Wednesday, September 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC Theatres across the U.S., and features six different repertory films. Screenings will take place at 7 p.

Blumhouse will once again be celebrating the Halloween season starting later this month and running through the end of October with AMC’s BlumFest, we’ve learned this morning.

Every Wednesday starting September 25, Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, score one-time-only giveaways, be the first to see exclusive sneak peeks, and more.

AMC’s BlumFest marks the first time that BlumFest, the annual October celebration of all things Blumhouse, has included a national screening program.

The six-week festival kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC Theatres across the U.S., and features six different repertory films – anchored by the 15th anniversary of Paranormal Activity September 25.

Festival-goers can catch their favorite Blumhouse films on the big screen, with screenings each Wednesday night at 7pm and 9pm local time, and tickets priced at a discounted rate. Plus, all attendees will receive a special poster giveaway commemorating this year’s lineup, plus...

Due to a complex series of anthropological mishaps, the Wayans Brothers are a huge deal in Brazil. Around these parts, White Chicks is considered a national treasure by a lot of people, so it stands to reason that Brazilian audiences would continue to accompany the Wayans’ comedic output long after North America had stopped taking them seriously as comedic titans.

This is the only reason why I originally watched Michael Tiddes and Marlon Wayans’ 2013 horror spoof A Haunted House – appropriately known as “Paranormal Inactivity” in South America – despite having abandoned this kind of movie shortly after the excellent Scary Movie 3. However, to my complete and utter amazement, I found myself mostly enjoying this unhinged parody of Found Footage films almost as much as the iconic spoofs that spear-headed the genre during the 2000s. And with Paramount having recently announced a reboot of the Scary Movie franchise, I think this...

A new Paranormal Activity videogame, from the creator of The Mortuary Assistant, has been announced. It should be ready in 2026.

The Paranormal Activity films have been terrorising audiences with their ambient, low-res hauntings for 17 years, and now it’s getting a videogame adaptation from designer Brian Clarke and DarkStone Digital.

Clarke previously made the 2022 horror game The Mortuary Assistant, which quickly went viral thanks to its found-footage-style scares. Interestingly, Clarke was directly inspired by Paranormal Activity when he made the game, so being commissioned to make an official adaptation brings things neatly full-circle.

“The success of the Paranormal Activity franchise epitomises the power and reach of the horror genre,” Clarke said in a statement shared with Gamespot. “If you thought The Mortuary Assistant was scary, we’re taking what we learned during the development of that title and cranking it up with a more reactive and horrifying haunting system. It’s going to be intense!

The idea of found footage as a filmmaking technique stretches back to at least 1961 with the release of Shirley Clarke's relatively obscure drama "The Connection." The found footage style was used to present scripted material as if it were documentary footage, employing a lot of shaky, handheld camera work and extemporaneous-sounding dialogue. The term "found footage" sprung from a common conceit of the style, which often implied that something horrible had happened to the filmmakers that prevented them from assembling and editing their footage. Once their footage was found, it was edited by a third party and presented in the theater.

There were many found footage films from 1961 until 2007, but the release and overwhelming success of Oren Peli's "Paranormal Activity" sparked a years-long wave of the format, with most of its glory-chasers employing horror as their baseline. Late 2000s found footage horror was largely effective, as it often...

Ah, Blumhouse, modern horror's industry Monopoly. Back in 2007, a young up-and-coming Hollywood exec called Jason Blum produced a little experimental film by Oren Peli, a director with (at the time) no experience, and with a microbudget budget of 15,000 dollars. This film was Paranormal Activity and would go on to create one of the biggest budget turnovers in Hollywood history, taking that $15,000 and turning it into a whopping $200 million gross profit through box office returns. After this legendary outing, Jason Blum's independent company, Blumhouse Productions, would completely fill its industry niche from wall to wall, releasing horror hit after horror hit from Sinister to The Purge to the iconic Insidious series. Blumhouse was now the golden child of horror, blurring the line between experimental microbudget films and Hollywood blockbusters, with industry torch-bearers such as Bloomberg News praising the studio for making "blockbusters for pennies."...

Something about having a scary movie marathon on a late Autumn night feels so right. It’s the perfect Halloween season activity to enjoy with friends and family. Whether it be campy horror, a ghost story, or a classic slasher, the horror genre has a wide variety of franchises that make for incredible movie marathons.

It’s no secret some horror franchises get a bad rap because, let’s face it, horror sequels can be pretty awful. Still, no proper horror movie marathon is complete without a few unintentionally hilarious bad films to laugh at between the genuinely scary ones. Despite the inconsistent scares, these horror franchises are perfect for late-night movie marathons.

Update October 25, 2023, by Anthony Jeanetta. Late October is ideal for gathering friends and family and having a horror movie marathon. This list is updated to include more of the best horror franchises perfect for a scary movie marathon.

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Horror movies might be snubbed by snobs and ignored by the Oscars, but they've never gone out of fashion for one simple reason: horror makes money. Other genres, from westerns to rom-coms, have risen and fallen at the box office, but horror is the true final girl of cinema. That's a lesson that Blumhouse Productions founder Jason Blum took to heart after "Paranormal Activity" became the most profitable horror movie of all time, building his studio up around a model of producing low-budget horror movies with massive returns at the box office.

It's a model that has taken Blumhouse from strength to strength over the last decade, and yet Blum still had doubters when he set his sights on an adaptation of...

Sometimes a movie scene is so scary that it haunts you for years to come. It could be a jump-scare that jolts your soul clean out of your body; an image so incomprehensible that your brain can never truly hope to resolve it; an atmospheric nightmare that fills you with palpable dread from head to toe. That’s the power of a great horror movie – the right shot, or sound, or cut feels like it could completely change your body chemistry. For some filmgoers, it’s a reason to never watch a scary film ever again; for others, it’s the exact reason they watch them in the first place.

With Halloween approaching, allow the minds of the Empire team to share the movie scenes that have scared them more than any other – horrifying endings, deeply dark childhood frights, emotionally-devastating delights, and ghouls simply saying, ‘Boo!’ Read it with the lights out.

Every year, horror fans and aficionados attempt to take on the daunting task of watching a horror movie for each day in the month of October. Aptly named 31 Days of Horror, the challenge usually consists of viewers watching a mixture of their favorite classics, recent releases, and popular genre staples that may be new to them. In celebration of the spooky season, we at MovieWeb have curated our own suggestions for the month, providing a plethora of favorites from our contributing writers and editors. Check out our 31 Days of Horror posts every day this October, and embrace all the freaky found footage, vicious vampires, and stalking slashers you could ever hope for. Today, we kick off Day Three of MovieWeb's 31 Days of Horror with a movie that completely redefined the found footage subgenre, Paranormal Activity.

A young man turns on a Sony Hdr-FX1 handheld camera and begins filming. We watch...

Found footage horror evolves in an unexpected way: the Paramount horror movie series Paranormal Activity has a stage play in the works.

THR reports that “Simon Friend, the veteran producer who brought Life of Pi to Broadway, has picked up the license to the Paramount horror movie series with the intent of bringing it to the West End via his Simon Friend Entertainment.”

The stage play adaptation of Paranormal Activity is in early development and set to be penned by Levi Holloway, who previously wrote Grey House.

The 2007 found footage film that started it all, Paranormal Activity, was written and directed by Oren Peli. The microbudget feature, made on very little money, wound up grossing $193.4 million globally and successfully launched a franchise still going strong with Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, most recently released in 2021 on Paramount+. The movies have grossed almost $900 million theatrically, THR reports.

In the initial...

After nearly two years without a new film, Paranormal Activity will be adapted as a stage play, expanding the story's reach to live audiences. Acclaimed producer Simon Friend has acquired the rights to the story, with screenwriter Levi Holloway penning the script in the early stages of development. Paranormal Activity proved to be a pioneer within the horror genre, using security camera footage to create a realistic and dark atmosphere throughout the series.

The Paranormal Activity franchise has not released a new film in almost two years, but the horror franchise will soon tell a new story; not on the big screen but on stage.

There are already several films and movie sagas that have had the opportunity to expand their reach, arriving at the marquees of Broadway or London's West End. And now, the story created by Israelite director and screenwriter Oren Peli will have its chance to surprise live audiences as well.

It was a found-footage-stylized microbudget horror pic that spawned a six film theatrical franchise that grossed over $890M, now Paranormal Activity is set to be a play.

Deadline has confirmed that Simon Friend, the producer of the Broadway version of Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, has taken the license on the Paramount/Blumhouse horror feature to set it up as a West End play.

Levi Holloway, the scribe of Broadway horror play Grey House, is currently writing Paranormal Activity for the stage.

Oren Peli wrote and directed the first pic, which centers around a family being haunted by a demon. The intrigue, much like the first Blair Witch Project, was the feeling that these horror movies could be real.

Friend’s stage adaptation productions include those of such pics The Da Vinci Code and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Life of Pi won five Olivier Awards and three Tonys.

According to THR, the Paranormal Activity franchise is set to become a stage play. I can’t say I saw that one coming.

Simon Friend, who commissioned the Life of Pi stage play, picked up the license to Paranormal Activity and is seeking to bring it to the West End. Grey House scribe Levi Holloway has signed on to write the play, but the project is still in early development at this time. Although I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a fan of the franchise, I’ve got to admit that I’m a little curious about how they plan to adapt the found-footage story to the stage.

The original Paranormal Activity movie was written and directed by Oren Peli and followed Katie and Micah, a young couple who have recently moved to a new house and are being terrorized by a demon that has stalked Katie since childhood. The...

Get ready for Paranormal Activity, the stage play.

Simon Friend, the veteran producer who brought Life of Pi to Broadway, has picked up the license to the Paramount horror movie series with the intent of bringing it to the West End via his Simon Friend Entertainment.

Levi Holloway, who wrote the horror-tinged Broadway play Grey House, is on board to pen the stage adaptation, which is described as being in early development.

Created by Oren Peli, who wrote, directed, and shot the initial installment,  Paranormal is a horror movie series focused, in most outings, on a family terrorized by a demon. The bulk of them were made between 2009 and 2015. The movies capitalized on the growing proliferation of video and cellphone cameras to tell spooky and jump-scare-filled tales to great effect.

Made on microbudgets, the movies were massive moneymakers, with the first one considered to be among the most profitable movies ever made,...

Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise (you can read our review Here) and the highest-grossing entry in the franchise at the worldwide box office, reached theatres on July 7th, then a digital release followed on August 1st. Now we know the film will be reaching physical media on September 12th, and copies of the Blu-ray and DVD releases can be pre-ordered at This Link!

The film reaches Blu-ray and DVD with two featurettes: A Possessed Director and The Family: Past, Present, Further.

Insidious: The Red Door marks the feature directorial debut of Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2 star Patrick Wilson. The screenplay was written by Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems, based on an idea from Leigh Whannell, who created the franchise with James Wan. The story catches up with the family from the first two films, the Lamberts, ten years after the end of...

Netflix is reshuffling its streaming offerings once again, and the latest round of movies set to leave the platform includes a few new horror classics. More specifically, if you're looking for a scary movie to watch in September, you'll have to cross Oren Peli's 2009 horror phenomenon "Paranormal Activity" off your to-watch list before then, as it's due to leave the streamer at the end of this month.

"Paranormal Activity" may not be the most enduringly scary horror touchstone of the past two decades (its slow burn scares were polarizing even upon initial release), but it's certainly among the most replicated. The shoestring-budget flick about a couple who set up security cameras to pinpoint the source of unusual happenings in their home was inescapable upon its release, earning nearly $200 million at the box office and spawning six sequels and spinoffs and counting. Along with J.J. Abrams' "Cloverfield," the film...

DreamWorks originally planned to remake the first Paranormal Activity movie, but a test screening convinced them that it didn't need a remake. The director intentionally used a home video camera and limited budget to make the film realistic and authentic, which wouldn't have worked with a higher budget. The movie's limited budget led to an innovative viral marketing strategy that created excitement and contributed to its box office success.

DreamWorks' original plan for the first Paranormal Activity movie almost destroyed the horror franchise's potential. Set in San Diego, 2007's Paranormal Activity follows the terrors experienced by a couple after they move to a new suburban home. While the movie conforms to several horror movie conventions and features a fairly simplistic narrative, what makes it incredibly scary is its found-footage filming style and quasi-documentary approach towards storytelling that is reminiscent of horror epics like Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project.

After...

The mockbuster industry is a fascinating entity. Chief among the studios that specialize in mockbusters (ie. low-budget knockoffs of popular studio titles) is The Asylum, the company behind the "Sharkando" films. In 2023 alone, The Asylum has released a riff on "Cocaine Bear" titled "Attack of the Meth Gator," the latest installment in its "Transformers" ripoff franchise, "Transmorphers: Mech Beasts," and its own animated version of "The Little Mermaid" featuring the voices of Steve Guttenberg and "E.T." star Dee Wallace. And they say cinema is dead!

Shane Van Dyke, the grandson of acting legend Dick Van Dyke, got his start as a writer on the mockbuster circuit, penning films like "Titanic II," "Paranormal Entity," and "Transmorphers: Fall of Man" for The Asylum in the late aughts. Around that same time, he also teamed up with his brother, Carey Van Dyke, to co-pen the studio's "Street Racer" -- a riff on the "Fast & Furious" films,...

Yesterday, we shared the news that Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise (you can read our review Here), has officially become the highest-grossing entry in the franchise at the worldwide box office, with its $174,382,000 leaving previous record holder Insidious: The Last Key‘s final count of $172,811,971 in the dust. Now the film has been given a premium VOD release, showing up on outlets like Vudu and Amazon (rent or buy it at This Link).

Insidious: The Red Door marks the feature directorial debut of Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2 star Patrick Wilson. The screenplay was written by Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems, based on an idea from Leigh Whannell, who created the franchise with James Wan. The story catches up with the family from the first two films, the Lamberts, ten years after the end of Insidious 2. Josh Lambert heads east to drop his son Dalton off at an idyllic,...

I haven’t seen much chatter about Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise (you can read our review Here), but movie-goers have obviously been showing up for it. The film had a very successful opening weekend, drawing in $32.65 million at the domestic box office and $64 million worldwide on a budget that’s said to be around $16 million. Now The Numbers has confirmed that Insidious: The Red Door has managed to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise at the worldwide box office. It’s currently sitting at a total of $174,382,000, surpassing its predecessor Insidious: The Last Key‘s final count of $172,811,971. And its theatrical run isn’t over yet.

As of right now, Insidious: The Red Door‘s domestic number sits at $78,082,000, so Insidious: Chapter 2 still holds the domestic record of $83,586,447. But if The Red Door can manage to pull in another $5 million and change at home,...

Is it beginning to feel a little like 2020 to anyone else? As the major Hollywood studios continue to refuse even entertaining the completely reasonable requests from the striking actors' and writers' guilds, they've already started pushing back films that were previously set to arrive in the next couple of months, with more delays potentially on the way. Meanwhile, Netflix is doing better than ever -- although, in this case, it's thanks to their deeply unpopular but undeniably successful crackdown on password sharing and not because everyone is stuck at home with nothing else to do but finally stream those films and TV series they've been meaning to catch up on.

Speaking of which (how's that for a segue?), if you've been planning to watch any of the films or shows leaving Netflix in August 2023, now's the time to get cracking. There's nothing departing this month too likely to vanish completely into the streaming void.

Few modern films have given Hollywood a much-needed adrenaline rush quite like Paranormal Activity. Shot in just seven days with a meager $15,000 budget, Oren Peli's 2009 haunted house sensation became an unexpected and massive hit, reviving the found footage genre and spawning a franchise. Ingenious and chilling in equal measure, the bare-bones film about a young couple terrorized by malevolent forces had audiences hearing things go bump in the night for days after seeing it, proving once again that when it comes to horror, less is truly more.

Insidious: The Red Door, the fifth film in the Insidious horror franchise, is now in theatres (you can read our review Here) – and it had a very successful opening weekend, drawing in $32.65 million at the domestic box office and $64 million worldwide on a budget that’s said to be around $16 million. Sony is probably feeling very glad that they already have the spin-off Thread: An Insidious Tale in the works, with Jeremy Slater writing/directing and Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani attached to star. While examining the film’s success, Deadline revealed that there was a point when the filmmakers were concerned that the movie wasn’t scary enough, so there were reshoots to enhance the jump scares!

Deadline revealed, “the first cut of Insidious: The Red Door was looking pale, and in need of jump scares with the filmmakers looking to push the release. For Blumhouse, Insidious was a...

Insidious: The Red Door Josh Lambert heads east to drop his son, Dalton, off at school. However, Dalton’s college dream soon becomes a living nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both. Release date: July 7, 2023 (USA) Director: Patrick Wilson Producers: James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Charles Layton Screenplay: Scott Teems …

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After starring in Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2, Patrick Wilson has returned to the Blumhouse franchise for Insidious: Red Door. Although the upcoming film, which premiers July 7, marks the fifth installment in the horror franchise, it serves as a direct sequel to Insidious: Chapter 2. As audiences may remember, the second film concluded with Josh Lambert (Wilson) and his son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) going under hypnosis to forget the horrors they had endured. Wilson returns to reprise the role of Josh and also helms the film, which marks his directorial debut. In a recent interview with GameSpot, Wilson opened up about his directorial efforts. He said:

"I really wanted to unpack the second movie and address the trauma. That's the only way that I knew how to make a movie that I was passionate about, that I felt like I had any authority to make. So luckily, I'm surrounded by people...

To celebrate the release of Insidious The Red Door, we spoke with the stars and the director.

Insidious The Red Door is the fifth instalment in the horror franchise and follows Josh and Dalton as they grapple with their strained relationship and their repressed memories of the horrors that occurred so many years ago. When Dalton heads off to college, he unwittingly opens up the titular red door and their monsters of the past soon come to haunt once more.

We spoke with Patrick Wilson on his directorial debut and how much fun it was orchestrating the horror for this instalment.

We also chatted with Ty Simpkins about returning to the role he started as a child, and Sinclair Daniel about how quickly she said yes to the role as the wonderful Chris.

The movie hits cinemas on July 7th, 2023.

Wilson makes his directorial debut as well as starring alongside Ty Simpkins,...

Los Angeles, June 29 (Ians) In a special treat for horror fans from India, the first show for the upcoming horror film ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ will be shown at 12:00 am on July 7. The last installment of the supernatural horror franchise, ‘Insidious: The Red Door’, will feature the original cast for the very last time, as they complete the Lambert family’s bone-chilling and dreadful story.

The teaser shared by Sony Pictures India on Instagram said: “Nothing can prepare you for what’s behind the door” with a demon suddenly turning up.

Sony Pictures India also captioned: “The Further is closer than you’d ever imagine. Come watch the terrifying conclusion of the fate of the Lambert family in ‘Insidious: The Red Door’. Coming to cinemas a Full Day early on the big screen.”

The star cast reuniting for the final chapter has intrigued audiences greatly. Directed by Patrick Williams in his directorial debut,...

Over a decade after the Lambert family first drew the attention of the unspeakable things that lurk in The Further, Insidious: The Red Door updates reveal a final terrifying chapter to the franchise. The Blumhouse horror franchise kicked off in 2010 with James Wan's modern now-cult supernatural horror classic Insidious, a relatively cheap production that raked in big money at the box office. The 2013 sequel Insidious: Chapter 2 was even more successful, while a subsequent prequel and a fourth franchise installment demonstrated that horror fans can't get enough. In 2023 Insidious 5, titled Insidious: The Red Door, will once again put the Lambert family directly in the sights of the abyssal menace that is the Red-Faced Demon.

The latest Insidious 5 updates confirm that the series will once again focus on the Lambert family ten years in the future, with Ty Simpkins returning as Dalton, and Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne once against...

All four films in the Insidious franchise to this point have been rated PG-13, and the upcoming fifth film isn’t going to shake things up. The Motion Picture Association has announced that their ratings board has given Insidious: The Red Door – which is set to reach theatres on July 7th – a PG-13 rating for “violence, terror, frightening images, strong language and suggestive references“. And this rating comes along just in time for tickets to go on sale, as they’re now available on sites like Fandango.

Insidious: The Red Door marks the feature directorial debut of Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2 star Patrick Wilson. The screenplay was written by Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems, based on an idea from Leigh Whannell, who created the franchise with James Wan. The story catches up with the family from the first two films, the Lamberts, ten years after the end of Insidious 2. Josh Lambert...

Tiptoe through the tulips… one more time. Sony Pictures is heading back into The Further with Insidious: The Red Door this summer, and tickets for the new movie are now on sale!

Additionally, the film has received its official MPA rating this week. Like all the previous movies in the franchise, Insidious: The Red Door has been rated “PG-13” for…

“Violence, terror, frightening images, strong language, and suggestive references.”

Insidious: The Red Door will release in theaters everywhere on July 7, 2023.

While the main storyline may be coming to an end this summer, that doesn’t mean the franchise is ending. In fact, spinoff Thread: An Insidious Tale was just announced.

The horror franchise’s original cast is back in Insidious: The Red Door, directed by and starring Patrick Wilson. Family secrets will be revealed as the Lamberts head back into The Further one more time, encountering demons from the past...

Listen up Folk Horror fans! There's a new mythic monster in town calling out to you from those dark woods at the edge of town that you know you're supposed to stay away from. Described by creators Armando Zanker, Grant DeArmitt, Shan Bennion, and Lucas Gattoni as a blend of Twin Peaks, Picnic At Hanging Rock, and American Gods, Ratatosk is ready to leap off the page and haunt your dreams. But this spooky investigative page-turner needs your help! Support your local weirdos and grab yourself a copy of this ambitious paranormal project before it's June 24th cutoff date and enjoy 24 pages of crowd-funded creepiness.

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Sony Pictures has dropped the final trailer for the final chapter in the horror franchise ‘Insidious: The Red Door.’

The horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

Patrick Wilson also makes his directorial debut as well as starring alongside Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne and Andrew Astor. Also starring Sinclair Daniel and Hiam Abbass. Produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan and Leigh Whannell. The screenplay is written by Scott Teems from a story by Leigh Whannell, based on characters created by Leigh Whannell.

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Synopsis:

In Insidious: The Red Door, the horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

The original cast from Insidious is back with Patrick Wilson (also making his directorial debut), Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne and Andrew Astor. Also starring Sinclair Daniel and Hiam Abbass. Produced by Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan and Leigh Whannell. The screenplay is written by Scott Teems from a story by Leigh Whannell, based on characters created by Leigh Whannell.

Insidious: The Red Door Opens July 7th.

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