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Paranoraml Activity Theatrical Poster

It is Halloween season and everyone is already kicking into ’scare’ mode. Paranormal Activity has shocked the hell out of Hollywood’s big-wigs. The movie shot for a budget of $11,000 has grossed over $62.5 million. Paramount had brought out Paranormal Activity for only $300,000. It has been such a roaring success that Paramount is considering shooting a sequel.

It is a disturbing trend for many of the biggest Producers in Hollywood. Horror films shot on a shoe-string budget end up creating a blood-bath in the Box Office. Another example is that of Blair Witch Project which was shot by a handy-cam. Blair Witch Project is documentary that features three college student enter forest supposedly haunted by a Legendary Witch.

This is the list of official estimates for this weekend’s top 10 horror  movies in North American theaters.

1. Paranormal Activity, $22 million; $62.5 million, fifth week
2. Saw VI, $14.8 million, first week
3. Where the Wild Things Are, $14.4 million; $54 million, second week
4. Law Abiding Citizen, $12.7 million; $40.3 million, second week
5. Couples Retreat, $11.1 million; $78.2 million, third week
6. Astro Boy, $7 million, first week
7. The Stepfather, $6.5 million; $20.4 million, second week
8. Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, $6.3 million, first week
9. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, $5.6 million; $115.2 million, sixth week
10. Zombieland, $4.3 million; $67.3 million, fourth week

House Of Wax- Theatrical Poster

Well, I have been having a lot of free time lately (semester holidays) and I took the time to check out a few old movies. I watched House of Wax and Cry Wolf, both are movies that released in 2005. Almost 4 years back. Here is what I think about House of Wax, will let you know about Cry Wolf soon.

Paris Hilton in a still from the Film

First I will tell you about the movie House of Wax, the movie was rather unremarkable except for the fact that it had Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert in it. That kind of kept me interested (I can almost hear “All you guys are the same!” from my female readers) apart from the fact that I have a fetish for horror movies. Later I learnt that as part of the promotion, the phrase “See Paris Hilton Die” was used to advertise the film. Hmm…interesting. Anyways her acting was pathetic frankly speaking and deservingly she won the  Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.

The lead actress for this movie was none other than one of my crushes Elisha Cuthbert, I fell in love with her after I watched the movie The Girl Next Door. She was good in the movie ( I wont ever say bad about her, ever, sorry about the partialism).

Anyways, if you look at Paris to your left and if I was the killer then I really would not consider killing her. Can you just see how sexy she looks even in the murder scene?

The Complete Movie Cast- House of Wax

As far as the movie is concerned, you will not fall short of eye-candies thanks to Paris and Elisha especially. The plot is kind of engaging if you are watching it on a rented DVD from home. But definitely annoying and unsatisfactory when you spend hard-earned bread and watch this movie in a theater. But obviously no multiplex will be running this movie right now so my advice, go ahead and watch it. After all, this marks Paris Hilton’s debut in films apart from those films that we are generally used to!