Oren Peli

Paranormal Activity (2007)

Paranormal Activity (2007)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 2, 2009Haunting Found Footage Film
No-budget film that became a word of mouth hit, spawned a series of sequels and sparked off the Found Footage fascination that took over the 2010s. Unlike most of the films that followed, Oren Peli creates a creepingly chill atmosphere and some undeniable jumps
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Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 20, 2011Haunting Found Footage Film
The Paranormal Activity series still manages to produce a reasonable amount of eerie scares and jumps a third time around, although by now the claim to still being found footage is starting to strain credulity
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Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
Rating: ★★
Oct 20, 2012Haunting Found Footage Film
The Paranormal Activity series has had a better run than most horror franchises up until now but the cracks are starting to show through here. This feels like it is straining to find some new way to do the familiar moves but fails to provide anything unexpected or original
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Rating: ★★★
May 25, 2012Horrors Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
This has the fascinatingly original idea of setting a horror film inside the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The location is unique and the film generates a fair and reasonable tension
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The Lords of Salem (2012)

The Lords of Salem (2012)
Rating: ★★
May 27, 2013Occult Happenings/Witch's Curse
In this homage to the 1970s occult film, Rob Zombie tones back the posturing shock effect of his earlier films and creates atmosphere. Eventually though, Zombie creates a film that feels coiled to unleash something bad but falters
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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Rating: ★★
Jan 10, 2014Found Footage Film/Possession
Less another sequel than a spinoff of the Paranormal Activity series, this takes place with Latino characters and in a whole different culture and socio-economic strata. While this gives the series a face change, everything else it feels like the shuffling of a well-worn deck of plot cards
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Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015)
Rating: ★★
Jan 9, 2016Haunting Found Footage Film
For supposedly the Paranormal Activity series final entry, this offer the novelty of the first Found Footage film in 3D – a gimmick that signals the series is out of fresh ideas. Moreover, the series' look via watching security cameras has been de-emphasised in favour of another CGI driven ghost story
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