Horror on screen

Low-budget Paranormal Activity will leave viewers terrified | Sam Thielman

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"Cheap thrills" is right. Paranormal Activity, one of the scariest and best-scripted horror movies of the last few years, cost its makers approximately $11,000 and is on track to break $100 million in box office gross. Why? What's so unique about this crazy little picture?

Well, for one thing, it's not as violent as most horror flicks. Its characters are a niceseeming (though unmarried) couple in their 20s named Katie (played by Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat), and they do not seem like the kind of people who go around stabbing or being stabbed. Their only problem is Katie's recurring nightmare of a floating apparition at her bedside. She thinks she hears whatever it is that's haunting her dreams thumping around the house late at night.

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