Fantastic Fest 2009

"PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is one of the scariest movies of all-time. YOU WILL BE AFFECTED as it’s hard to ignore the imprint it leaves on your psyche. Nightmares are guaranteed." - Brad Miska - Bloody Disgusting

"PARANORMAL ACTIVITY succeeds with flying colors. It’s a brutal, exhausting, and genuinely horrifying little ghost flick that really makes me rethink my stance on horror films altogether.." - Felix Vasquez, Film Threat

"It sufficiently freaked out those of us who watched [it].... that I ended up asking a coworker to crash in my room for the night because I was afraid I wouldn' t be able to get to sleep alone. It's surprising how creepy and realistic the film is" - Kim Voynar, Cinematical

"Simply put, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is the most frightening ghost story of the year." - Dread Central

"Best in fest is PARANORMAL ACTIVITY ... it's the scariest movie of the year." - Luke Thompson, LA Weekly

"PARANORMAL ACTIVITY managed to do something that almost no other haunted house movie in the past 25 years has managed to do: actually be scary." - Bloody-Disgusting

About Paranormal Activity:
After a young, middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban “starter” house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night.

Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

The presence seems most concerned with Katie, a student who has felt “haunted” her whole life.

Her boyfriend, Micah, a day-trader, becomes fixated on learning as much as he can about the phenomenon. Technologically savvy and a lover of toys, Micah spends a few thousand dollars on a high-definition video camera and sets it up at the foot of their bed, creating at once the most intimate of tableaux and an evidentiary medium.

The camera seems to aggravate further paranormal activity, causing Katie to observe that the presence “doesn’t like it.”

Katie becomes increasingly distant as Micah’s fascination with the images his camera captures night after night grows into a kind of obsession.

A filmmaker-by-necessity, Micah turns out to be every bit as tenacious – and profane – as Heather in “The Blair Witch Project.” Yet his distinct point of view as a man defending his home brings a wholly different kind of desperation to this new kind of documentary project. He is, after all, witnessing his best friend, his soul mate, his partner, being taken from him night by night, frame by frame.

As if crafted in tune with today’s DVR culture, “Paranormal Activity” is presented as countless hours of found footage rendered immediately consumable by virtue of fast-forward technology.

The original tapes are currently logged as evidence with the San Diego Police Department.