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Oren Peli

Highest Rated: 83% Paranormal Activity (2007)

Lowest Rated: 13% Area 51 (2015)

Birthday: Jan 21, 1970

Birthplace: Ramat Gan, Israel

Director Oren Peli took his own fear of the unknown, shot it with a night-vision camera, and scared to death all those who dared to experience it. Peli brought moviegoers face-to-face with evil with the horror flick "Paranormal Activity" (2009), the story of a couple terrorized by a strange presence in their suburban home. With a cast of unknown actors, an $11,000 budget, and no prior filmmaking experience, Peli created a shoe-string budget masterpiece that struck abject terror into the hearts of those who saw the film, including that of director Steven Spielberg, whose company DreamWorks produced the film. Peli's directorial debut earned just shy of $100 million less than a month after its wide release in the U.S., and scared up comparisons to another indie film, "The Blair Witch Project" (1999), which also had the same slow burn effect by exploiting the visceral fear of the unknown via a camcorder. With "Paranormal Activity," Peli succeeded not only in leaving in his wake thousands of sleepless fans, but also proving that imagination - not special effects - was a more powerful force in creating a great horror movie.

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Highest rated movies

83% 57% Paranormal Activity
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76% 43% The Bay
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71% The Found Footage Phenomenon
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67% 51% Paranormal Activity 3 Watchlist 66% 62% Insidious Watchlist
57% 48% Paranormal Activity 2
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56% 51% Insidious: Chapter 3
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47% 30% The Lords of Salem
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40% 69% Insidious: The Red Door Watchlist 40% 34% Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
40% 69% Insidious: The Red Door Producer $82.0M 2023
30% 37% Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin Producer - 2021
No Score Yet 71% Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity Self - 2021
71% No Score Yet The Found Footage Phenomenon Self - 2021
34% 49% Insidious: The Last Key Producer $67.3M 2018
15% 27% Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension Producer $18.3M 2015
56% 51% Insidious: Chapter 3 Producer $52.2M 2015
13% 33% Area 51 Director,
Screenwriter
$7.6K 2015
40% 34% Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Producer $32.5M 2014
38% 57% Insidious: Chapter 2 Producer $83.6M 2013
47% 30% The Lords of Salem Producer $1.2M 2012
76% 43% The Bay Producer - 2012
23% 34% Paranormal Activity 4 Producer $53.9M 2012
18% 28% Chernobyl Diaries Screenwriter,
Producer
$18.1M 2012
67% 51% Paranormal Activity 3 Producer $104.0M 2011
66% 62% Insidious Producer $54.0M 2010
57% 48% Paranormal Activity 2 Producer $84.7M 2010
83% 57% Paranormal Activity Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing
$107.9M 2007

TV

Credit
63% 63% The River Executive Producer,
Writer
2012