Word: frightful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...disappointment to Lionsgate, the series, sponsor. "If we end up with at least $20 million," David Spitz, the company's executive VP and general manager, told the industry blog The Wrap, "we'll be talking about Saw VII, this time next year." Oh, no - a fright season without Jigsaw luridly dismembering nubile teens? Say it ain't so! (See TIME's cover story on King of Horror Stephen King...
...Peli is a first-time auteur, but since he made Paranormal Activity in 2006 for a laughably low $11,000, he could boast that his movie made back more than twice its budget in each theater that showed it. Peli's homegrown horror movie also made the other new fright film in wide release, The Stepfather, a box-office orphan. It earned only $12.3 million...
...will keep expanding through the pre-Halloween fright season, trying to hold off other horror pictures - The Stepfather, Saw VI, The House of the Devil and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - at least until the last weekend of October. That's when we get the one back-from-the dead movie that won't be stopped: Michael Jackson's This...
...campaign to bring Paranormal Activity to the public is already a movie-industry legend. Shot three years ago by Peli, an Israeli-born 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...
...might getting spanked on the butt actually affect the workings of the brain? Straus notes that being spanked or hit is associated with fright and stress; kids who experience that kind of trauma have a harder time focusing and learning. In another recent paper that he co-authored with Paschall, Straus writes that previous research has found that even after you control for parental education and occupation, children of parents who use corporal punishment are less likely than other kids to graduate from college...