The raved about new horror film Paranormal Activity would probably never have made it into the main stream had Steven Spielberg not experience a little haunting of his own after watching the film.

It was early 2008, and the director’s DreamWorks studio was trying to decide whether it wanted to be a part of the micro-budgeted supernatural thriller. As the story goes, Spielberg had taken a “Paranormal Activity” DVD to his Pacific Palisades estate, and not long after he watched it, the door to his empty bedroom inexplicably locked from the inside, forcing him to summon a locksmith.

While Spielberg didn’t want the “Paranormal Activity” disc anywhere near his home — he brought the movie back to DreamWorks in a garbage bag, colleagues say — he very much shared his studio’s enthusiasm for director Oren Peli’s haunting story about the demonic invasion of a couple’s suburban tract house.

I love that he returned the movie in a garbage bag, as if touching it would bring demons to bother him. It’s a pretty freaky little film, if you haven’t seen it yet and want to be too scared to go to sleep, go check it out. Few films achieve this level of spooky-ness these days.

Source: Los Angeles Times

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