"Paranormal Activity 3" Director Explain the Movie

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I love the “Paranormal Activity” franchise. The first one intrigued me, the second one scared me, and the third made me believe in the potency of the franchise. So I was happy as a clam to interview the directors of the third installment, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.

One of the biggest questions the fans were asking was – how come there were some scenes shown in the trailer that were not shown on the final cut?

But we’ll get to that in a minute.

For now, let’s congratulate Joost and Schulman for keeping the “Paramount Activity” tradition of no gore, just good old-fashioned scares alive!

Oh yeah, and let’s congratulate them too for having the biggest box-office opening for a horror film ever, and for the biggest opening of any film in October!

In this interview, we talked about:

*** What spooked them to direct “Paranormal Activity 3?”
*** Scary movies versus Violent movies
*** The origin of the “fan cam”
*** And the biggie – how come some scenes were not shown in the final cut? Are we going to find some footage in the DVD and Blu-Ray?
*** Is there going to be “PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4?”

I really wanted to ask them about that hidden scene they’re talking about in the movie. Did you guys catch that?

Also, I want them to give Katie Featherston a bigger role in the fourth film!

Just sayin…

Transcripts / Production notes / Scripts

The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise continues with this third outing from Paramount Pictures. Oren Peli and Jason Blum return to produce the highly secretive feature.

Genres: Suspense/Horror and Sequel
Release Date: October 21st, 2011 (limited)
Distributors: Paramount Pictures

Directed by
Henry Joost
Ariel Schulman

Writing credits
Christopher B. Landon
Oren Peli characters

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Katie Featherston ... Katie

Sprague Grayden ... Kristi Rey

Lauren Bittner ... Julie

Chloe Csengery ... Young Katie

Christopher Nicholas Smith ... Dennis

Jessica Tyler Brown ... Young Kristi Rey

Brian Boland ... Daniel Rey

Dustin Ingram ... Randy Rosen

Mark Fredrichs ... Dr. Fredrichs

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