Paranormal Activity

  • MM Guide 2018

Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All

We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193…

6 years ago
  • Fall 2016

The Blair Necessities: Eduardo Sánchez and Simon Barrett Talk Blair Witch, Then and Now, and Changes in Horror

Between Eduardo Sánchez co-directing The Blair Witch Project in 1999 and Simon Barrett writing Blair Witch in 2016, we’ve seen generational…

8 years ago
  • First Draft
  • Screenwriting

First Draft: The Ten Commandments of Writing a Great Sequel

In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a fortnightly series on everything to do with screenwriting. New…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015

Releasing Your Demons: We Asked Some Pros to Discuss the Nature of the Horror Distribution Beast

Should you release your horror film in theaters before it hits video-on-demand? Or on VOD before theaters? Or do it…

8 years ago
  • Fall 2015
  • Producing

The Evils of Franchising Your Horror Film: Should You Attempt World Domination?

To successfully establish a horror franchise is to achieve some level of film industry transcendence. Something you made is granted…

9 years ago
  • Fall 2015

The Scariest Scene of All Time: Oren Peli and Jason Blum

For MovieMaker‘s 2016 Guide to Making Horror Movies special edition, we set out to identify what makes some of the scariest…

9 years ago