Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Paranormal Activity
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review

Trailer 2

Paranormal Activity(2007)
Released
2007 · FILM

Paranormal Activity

When chronic nightmares hint at a malevolent entity stalking her since childhood, Katie enlists a skeptical boyfriend and a dubious psychic to trap the demon on camera—only to discover that documenting the horror may only feed its power.

“What happens when you sleep?”

Directed by
Oren Peli
Written by
Oren Peli
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
86 min
HorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • Fubo

Synopsis

A young, middle-class couple moves into what appears to be a typical suburban home, but soon begins to experience growing unease from a presence that may or may not be demonic, with its activity intensifying in the middle of the night.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 55+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Oren PeliSound by David BarbeeCostumes by Ahmedwael

Box Office

2007 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12890× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$193.4M

Budget$15K
Worldwide gross$193.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Compare across the franchise →

Full synopsis

Versions & cuts

  • unrated· 84 min
  • festival· 97 min

Also known as

  • Paranormal Activityde
  • (Croatian)Nadprirodna aktivnost
Release dates around the world2 countries · show
  • United StatesOct 14, 2007
  • CanadaOct 8, 2009

Companies

ProductionParamount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Solana Films
DistributionParamount Distribution, Icon Film Distribution, E1 Entertainment Benelux, Entertainment One, FS Film
Other companiesIM Global, Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark, Avon Studio Transportation, Dolby Laboratories, Fintage CAM, IMN Creative, Studio Solutions Group

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

More in Paranormal Activity

View franchise →