Tag: Oren Peli
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Apollo 18’s Scrapped Trilogy Plans Would Have Been Big
The idea of found footage as a filmmaking technique stretches back to at least 1961 with the release of Shirley Clarke’s relatively obscure drama “The Connection.” The found footage style was used to present scripted material as if it were documentary footage, employing a lot of shaky, handheld camera work and extemporaneous-sounding dialogue. The term…
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Steven Spielberg Helped Make This Found Footage Horror Film Even Scarier
Few modern films have given Hollywood a much-needed adrenaline rush quite like Paranormal Activity. Shot in just seven days with a meager $15,000 budget, Oren Peli’s 2009 haunted house sensation became an unexpected and massive hit, reviving the found footage genre and spawning a franchise. Ingenious and chilling in equal measure, the bare-bones film about…