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Aspects of Teen Horror

Scream was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven. Paranormal Activity was written and directed by the same person, Oren Peli. Final Destination was released on the 19th May 2000 in the UK.

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Aspects of Teen Horror

Scream was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven. Paranormal Activity was written and directed by the same person, Oren Peli. Final Destination was released on the 19th May 2000 in the UK.

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Teen Horror to the best of my ability. Institutional information Scream The film was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven. The film was developed in the year of 1996 and was finally released on the 2nd May 1997 in the UK. The production companies are Dimension Films and Woods Entertainment. The film was made in California, and scenes such as the Woodsboro town square, where the students sit at the water fountain (a significant scene), is represented by the Healdsburg town square and Santa Rosa High School is used as the student's school in the film. Overall the film made a huge success. The film had a $15,000,000 budget, this was used to afford characters, props, staging drama and special effects. On the opening weekend of the film, it made $6,354,586 (USA, 22nd Decemeber 1996, with 1413 screens) and finally produced a profit of $161,600,000 worldwide. Paranormal Activity This film is written and directed by the same person, Oren Peli. It was developed in the year of 2007 and realised on the 25th November 2009 in the UK. The production company is Blumhouse Productions. The film is set in San Diego, California where it was also filmed. It was filmed in Oren Peli's house - it was his own home that gave him the idea for Paranormal Activity. The film had a low budget to create the film due to the Oren Peli and his team starting with their own ideas and not being involved with large production companies such as Working Title for example, so there budget was $15,000. But even with a low budget the opening weekend created $77,873 (USA, 27 September 2009 with 12 screens) and finally produced a profit of $193,355,800 worldwide. Final Destination This film was written by Jeffrey Reddick and directed by James Wong. Final destination was released on the19th May 2000 in the UK. The screenplay was by Glen Morgan, Wong and Jeffrey Reddcik, based on a story by Reddick. the film was based on a spec spript intended for The X-files, written by Reddick. X-Files writing partners Wong and Morgan were interested and agreed to re-write and direct a feature film of it, marking Wong's film directing debut. Filming took place in Alabame and Vancouver. Final Destination was released on March 17th, 2000 and was a finanacial success, making $10 milling on its opening weekend.

Cabin Fever This film was written by Eli Roth and Randy Pearlstein and also directed by Eli Roth. Cabin Fever was developed in the year of 2002 and released on the 10th October 2003 in the UK. The film was made in 2001 on a budget of $1.5 million raised from private investors. Roth sold the film to Lionsgate at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival for $3.5 million, the biggest sale of the festival that year. The film was released in 2003 and was Lionsgate's highest grossing film of the year, earning $22 million at the U.S. box office and $35 million worldwide. The Hills Have Eyes This film is written and directed by the same person, Alexandre Aja. The Hills Have Eyes is a 2006 horror film and remake of Wes Craven's 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes. Aja had a budget of $15 million, but earned a great amount of $69,770,032 The film was released theatrically in the United States and United Kingdom on March 10, 2006. It earned $15.5 million in its opening weekend in the U.S., where it was originally rated NC-17 for strong gruesome violence, but was later edited down to an Rrating. An unrated DVD version was released on June 20, 2006.

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