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...packed audience at a late-night screening of Paranormal Activity in Times Square this past week didn't need gore effects to be scared witless. Yes, they knew it was only a movie - one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events that were dreamed up by writer-director Oren Peli and are endured by actors Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston (using their real names). But when that door moved, the crowd's collective gasp just about sucked all the oxygen...
...video maker, for $11,000 in a week in his house, the picture played a few fright festivals in 2007. While DreamWorks considered buying the rights to do a remake with stars, Steven Spielberg took a copy of PA home to watch it; when he finished his screening, he found his bathroom door inexplicably locked. (He thought the DVD was haunted.) Two weeks ago, Paramount started playing Peli's film at midnight in 16 college towns. Many showings were sold out. Sorry, come back next week, if you dare. No tickets created a hot ticket - the movie grossed $1.2 million...
...wall or the ripple of an unseen form under the bedsheets. The gore scenes in splatter movies carry a sadistic punch, but those are outside most moviegoers' experience. What Peli is interested in is dread, a feeling everyone is familiar with. (Will I lose my job? Has she found someone else? Why hasn't our kid come home yet? What's that strange rash?) Movies take that anxiety, crystallize it and, because fiction demands an ending, resolve it. The threat is provided, the fear made flesh, the monster confronted. All gone - feel better? Horror movies provide vicarious psychotherapy...
...study, entitled ‘Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies,’ Elena D’Onghia explained the existence of dwarf galaxies on the outskirts of the Local Group, and found that slightly lower mass galaxies seemed to rotate around slightly larger galaxies which in turn stripped the smaller galaxies of their luminous matter. She coined this process “resonant stripping...
...originally set to be focused on an intense, closed-door meeting on the Afghan war in the basement Situation Room Friday afternoon, OCt. 9 - was hijacked by the 5:03 a.m. news bulletin from Oslo. The award capped off a week that found that the U.S. is now the world's most admired nation, up from seventh place last year, charting the highest jump among the 50 countries measured. (See the top 10 Obama-backlash moments...