Oren peli biography of michael
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Episode Description
After moving to the United States in his early twenties, Peli initially worked as a software programmer. However, his passion for films remained undiminished, and he soon turned his attention to filmmaking. With no prior experience, Peli embarked on an ambitious journey and created a movie that would leave a lasting impact on the horror genre.
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The Paranormal Activity Phenomenon
by David Michael Brown
Once in a blood-red moon, a horror movie breaks free of the nightmarish niches and terror-filled tropes, defies all expectations, and becomes a cultural phenomenon. A blood-filled water cooler movie that gets everybody talking, becoming a mainstream sensation in the process. One such film is the terrifying found-footage chiller Paranormal Activity.
At its best, found footage films can be raw, intense and unnerving. While Ruggero Deodato’s notorious gut-muncher Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and the low-fi Sci-fi of The McPhersonTape (1989) are often cited as the first examples of the genre, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s The Blair Witch Project (1999) first captured the mainstream cinema-going public’s imagination for taped terrors.
In its truest form, everything that the audience witnesses must have been filmed by a camera that is part of the narrative. This makes found footage films deceptively problematic t
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Oren Peli
Israeli filmmaker
Oren Peli | |
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Born | (1970-01-21) January 21, 1970 (age 55) Ramat Gan, Israel |
Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
Years active | 2007–present |
Known for | Paranormal Activity |
Oren Peli (Hebrew: אורן פלאי / אורן פלי; born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the 2007 horror film Paranormal Activity.[1] He acted as producer on subsequent films in the franchise, as well as on the first five films in the Insidious franchise.
Early life
[edit]Peli was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, to a Jewish family. At the age of 19, he moved to the United States.[2]
Career
[edit]Peli began as a computer software programmer, and was one of the developers behind Photon Paint, a bitmap graphics program for the Amiga.[3] He is also credited for developing the networking code for the home console versions of Mortal Kombat 3, during his work