mockumentary

Rating: 8/10 (23 October 2009)

First-time director Oren Peli had been afraid of ghosts his entire life, even fearing the movie Ghostbusters, but intended to channel that fear into something positive and productive.[8] Peli took a year to prep his own house for shooting, going so far as to repaint the walls, add furniture, put in a carpet, and build an actual stairwell. A very pleasant side effect, he joked, was ending up with a "dream home with a big TV". In this time, he also did extensive research into paranormal phenomena and demonology, stating, "We wanted to be as truthful as we could be." The reason for making the ghost in the story a demon was a result of the research pointing to the most malevolent and violent entities being "demons". The phenomena in the film takes place largely at night - the vulnerability of being asleep, Peli reasoned, tapped into a human being's most primal fear, stating, "If something is lurking in your home there's not much you can do about it