Watch Paranormal Activity Online

Watch Paranormal Activity online and remember what it feels like to be totally scared out of your mind. Screenings often included viewers getting up to leave because it was so frightening. The general consensus is that this is one of the scariest movies you'll ever see.

The plot is deceptively simple: a young couple lives in a house haunted by a demon. Boring, you say? Not exactly. The film took a week to shoot and director Oren Peli spent $15,000 and a great deal of creative effort on it.

It first screened at the Screamfest Film Festival in 2007. Paranormal Activity was also shown at the 2008 Slamdance film festival. You see the movie through the lens of the camera the couple has set up for taping paranormal activity.

Oren Peli came up with the idea when a few weird things happened at his house. Peli's own fear of the supernatural informed his creation of this movie. Peli spent a year getting his own house ready for filming by adding furniture, carpet, and paint, and building a stairwell. He spent considerable time studying paranormal activity too. From just the first few minutes, you'd think that the movie wouldn't be frightening at all.

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Peli planned it that way, with a plot that builds slowly and without special effects or excessive gore. With $15,000 and a hand held video camera, Peli created a horror masterpiece. There was no actual script, just outlines of the various scenes. The actors were free to improvise for the most natural sounding dialog.

There was talk that Dreamworks would remake Paranormal Activity and include the original on the DVD. The contract with Peli, however, included a one-time screening of the original to see audience reaction. The audience's reaction let Dreamworks know there was no reason at all to do a remake.

Watch Paranormal Activity online then watch yourself jump the next time a door creaks.