Mayan Calendar Among Themes in This Year's Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror"

By Laura Flood at 3:00 PM on September 18, 2012

According to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to end this year. This little bit of news is exactly the type of story line that writers for The Simpsons look for when writing their annual “Treehouse of Terror” episodes. In fact, the Mayan calendar will be a prominent story line in this year’s “Treehouse of Terror,” according to TV Guide....  read more

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Watch a Very Short Paranormal Activity 4 Teaser Trailer

By Megan Farokhmanesh at 2:00 PM on July 31, 2012

Yes, they’re making another Paranormal Activity, and yes, this might be the shortest trailer you ever see. Clocking in at 13 seconds, the clip is a teaser for the real trailer, which will apparently release on Aug. 1....  read more

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Watch the Paranormal Activity 2 Trailer

By Jennifer Ross at 11:34 AM on July 1, 2010

The much-anticipated trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 saw its debut with the release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, yesterday. Apparently, the 72-second teaser, which replays the last scene from the original film and entices viewers with disappearing babies and shots taken with multiple security cameras (as opposed to the single camera used in the first movie), was too much for some Twilight fans to handle. According to Vulture, the trailer has already been pulled from several theaters in Texas after patrons complained it was “too scary.”...  read more

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Paranormal Activity Sequel in the Works

By Kristen Callihan at 12:30 PM on January 19, 2010

Six months ago, Paranormal Activity was a low-budget sleeper (which, incidentally was mostly about sleeping…while being harassed by a demon). The film has since turned into a horror sensation, scaring the pants off audiences while simultaneously shaking $100 million out of those pants. And now a sequel is officially in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kevin Greutert (he of Saw VI, um, fame) will direct and Michael R. Perry will write the script....  read more

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Paranormal Activity Makes Paramount Take Notice of Micro-Budget Films

By Emily Riemer at 2:47 PM on January 4, 2010

Call it the decade’s Blair Witch Project. Horror movie on a shoestring budget Paranormal Activity has grossed more than $100 million at the U.S. Box Office since its theatrical release in September, and so far it has grossed $34 million internationally. Meanwhile, it’s production budget was an astonishing $15,000....  read more

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Sitges Film Festival 2009: Amer, The Loved Ones, Doghouse, More

By Steve Dollar at 6:00 PM on November 6, 2009

What you do in Sitges, Spain, during the annual Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic, is pretty much this: Wake up at 7:30 a.m. Eat breakfast. Hit first movie at 8:30 a.m. Continue throughout day. Break for late-afternoon nap, snack, interview or hang in the lobby bar of the Hotel Melia. Go see more movies. Go to dinner. Go drinking. See a movie (maybe). Go to the late-night party that usually begins after 1 a.m. Get back to room about 4:30 a.m. (with luck). Wake up at 7:30 a.m. And repeat. For seven or eight days straight. If your eyeballs haven’t...  read more

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The 25 Best Horror Movies of All Time

By Sean Edgar, Stephen M. Deusner, Jeffrey Bloomer and Courtney Balestier at 7:00 AM on October 31, 2009

Few people recognize horror films for what they truly are: a form of education...  read more

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Sitges Film Festival 2009: Paranormal Activity, [REC] 2, The Descent 2

By Steve Dollar at 12:00 PM on October 30, 2009

Once more into the breach, horror fans! This year’s Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic in Sitges, a charming coastal resort town a half-hour south of Barcelona, was the jump-scare capital of the world for the first half of October. The 42nd annual fest is a whirring vertiginous hypno-wheel of psycho-head blowouts, paranormal activity, zombie-stomping and dangerous visions—and not all of them are entirely confined to the screen....  read more

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