Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity
A deep dive into the making of the Paranormal Activity films with first time ever interviews with cast and crew, never-before-seen footage from the movies, and a preview of the seventh installment in the franchise.

Main Cast
Lauren Bittner
Lauren Bittner is an actress.
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Oren Peli
Oren Peli (born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli filmmaker. He is best known for directing horror films such as Paranormal Activity (2007) and Area 51 (2015). He is also a producer on the Paranormal Activity and Insidious film franchises as well as producing Chernobyl Diaries (2012), The Lords of Salem (2012) and The Bay (2012). He is the founder of production company Solana Films.
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Brit Shaw
Brit Shaw is an actress and writer.
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Katie Featherston
Katie Featherston, a native Texan, was born on October 20, 1982. She has a younger brother and a younger sister back home along with a family to whom she is very close. Katie attended Southern Methodist University where she majored in acting. After graduating with a BFA in 2005, she moved to Los Angeles.
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Jason Blum
Jason Ferus Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer, and both the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions. He won the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing The Normal Heart (2014), and has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Whiplash (2014), Get Out (2017) and BlacKkKlansman (2018).
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Akiva Goldsman
Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American screenwriter and producer in the motion picture industry. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. Goldsman has been involved specifically with Hollywood films. His filmography includes the films A Beautiful Mind, I am Legend and Cinderella Man, as well as more serious dramas, and numerous rewrites both credited and uncredited. In 2006 Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for a high profile project, adapting Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code for Howard's much-anticipated film version, receiving mixed reviews for his work. Goldsman currently directs and writes many episodes of the JJ Abrams produced science fiction drama Fringe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akiva Goldsman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Christopher Landon
Christopher Beau Landon (born 27 February 1975 in Los Angeles) is an American writer-director best known for his work on the "Paranormal Activity" and "Happy Death Day" franchises.
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Micah Sloat
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Micah Sloat ( born May 8, 1981) is an American actor and musician, largely unknown before his leading role as Micah in the 2009 hit horror film, Paranormal Activity. He appeared in the sequel in 2010, Paranormal Activity 2. Description above from the Wikipedia article Micah Sloat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Molly Ephraim
Molly Ephraim (born May 22, 1986) is an American actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Molly Ephraim, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sprague Grayden
Actress / Performer.
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Gabrielle Walsh
Gabrielle Walsh is an American actress best known for her roles as Marisol in the found footage supernatural horror film Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) and as Jess in the science fiction thriller The Hive (2014). Walsh has also appeared on various television series, most notably Shameless, The Vampire Diaries, and From Dusk till Dawn: The Series.
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Adam Goodman
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Christopher Nicholas Smith
Chris Smith is an American television and film actor. He attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts and trained at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City, He also married actress Rebecca Delgado Smith in 2006.
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Eduardo Sánchez
Eduardo Miguel Sánchez-Quiros (born December 20, 1968) is a Cuban-born American director most famous for writing and directing the 1999 microbudget blockbuster "The Blair Witch Project" alongside Daniel Myrick. Since then he has gone on to direct numerous other horror movies, including "Altered" (2006), "Lovely Molly" (2011) and "Exists" (2014).
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Tod Williams
Tod Culpan "Kip" Williams (born September 27, 1968) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing films such as The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998), The Door in the Floor (2004), Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) and Cell (2016).
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Ivy George
Ivy George was born on May 16th in Los Angeles, CA to Martin George and Christa Nelson George. Ivy started her acting career in musical theatre at the age of 5. Her first professional acting job came at 6 years old in a scene opposite Robin Williams. Ivy has two younger siblings.
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Renée Victor
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Gregory Plotkin
Gregory Plotkin is a film editor best known for his work on Get Out (2017), Hell Fest (2018) and Happy Death Day (2017).
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Colin Minihan
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Brady Allen
Brady Allen is an actor, known for Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) and Pearl Was Here (2013).
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Ariel Schulman
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman are a directing team, producers, best buds, and founders of the New York City production company Supermarché. They directed two films in 2016 -- Nerve, a summer hit released by Lionsgate, starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, and Viral, a low budget horror movie starring Sofia Black-D'Elia and Analeigh Tipton. They also executive produced the 2016 Sundance Film Festival hit White Girl, directed by Elizabeth Wood, which was picked up by Netflix and will be released theatrically in September. Their first feature documentary, Catfish, premiered at the Sundance film festival where it received critical acclaim and went on to a nationwide release in Fall 2010. Their next feature, Paranormal Activity 3, released by Paramount Pictures in 2011, opened to rave reviews and remains the highest grossing horror opening in history. Their second film in the franchise, Paranormal Activity 4 was released in October, 2012. The two combined have grossed $350 million dollars. Henry and Rel are also Executive Producers on Catfish the TV Show, and have directed dozens of commercials and short films including A Brief History of John Baldessari, narrated by Tom Waits, which has been screened at over 75 film festivals worldwide. Their 2011 Google commercial Dear Sophie was named Time Magazine's Best Commercial of the Year. They have also made a number of short films for Vogue Magazine starring Lena Dunham, Margot Robbie, and Taylor Swift, accumulating over 5 million views. In addition to several projects in development, Henry & Rel wrote and are attached to direct an adaptation of Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, to be produced by Ed Pressman and Gary Burden.
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Aiden Lovekamp
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Steven Schneider
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Dean Alioto
Director and writer Dean Alioto is an award-winning filmmaker and documentarian with an impressive track record across film and television. He has produced acclaimed specials for A+E, Bravo, and Discovery, and served as a consultant on James Fox’s hit UFO documentary The Phenomenon. Dean’s groundbreaking work in the genre has earned him a place in the Paramount+ documentary Unknown Dimensions: The Story of Paranormal Activity, where he is celebrated as the creator of The McPherson Tape, the first-ever found footage film. He is also known for the enigmatic Paramount TV movie Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, which has become a cult classic in the UFO and paranormal storytelling space.
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Joe Bandelli
Joe Bandelli is an award winning Screenwriter, Director, and Producer, dedicated to passionate storytelling. Bandelli has created dozens of highly acclaimed films, sketches, and web series.
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Chris J. Murray
Chris J. Murray is an actor and director, known for Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015), There's... Johnny! (2017) and Love 'N' Oven (2018).
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Stuart Ortiz
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Steven Barton
For as long as he can remember, Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton's life has been akin to riding the world's most dangerous roller coaster non-stop through the most haunted amusement park on Earth. From the dysfunctional chaos of his formative years and losing it all time and time again, Barton has managed to transcend every odd and become a leader in his field. A life-long horror fan since the age of three, Steve broke into the business by working for Fangoria as their message board moderator. "It was a chance to interact with people just like me," says Barton. "Horror fans have long been frowned upon. I wanted to help create a place, a gathering point, which they could call home, free of judgment." And so he did. His tenure with Fango lasted nearly two years until he was afforded the opportunity to expand his creative muscles by working with The Horror Channel as both a professional and a personality. From there he took the next step, free of all corporate entities, and struck out on his own with his team in tow to form one of the industry's largest and most well-respected websites, DreadCentral where he amassed a following of millions of horror fans from around the world. Now an award-winning film producer, an award-winning editor-in-chief, a WGA writer, an actor, a live event host, television personality, radio host, published author, respected horror and paranormal historian, taste-maker and critic with well over two hundred written reviews under his belt and tens of thousands of followers across social media, Steve has become one of the single most trusted names in the fields of horror, paranormal, and film. He shows no signs of slowing down and continues to carve out a name for himself despite the ups and downs that all roller coasters bring.
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Movie Details
Production Info
- Director:
- Joe Bandelli
- Writer:
- Joe Bandelli
- Production:
- Masimedia, Candy Heart Productions, Paramount Players, Paramount Pictures
Key Crew
- Music:
- Alexander Taylor
- Producer:
- Anthony Masi
- Producer:
- Rachel Belofsky
- Co-Producer:
- Nate Ragon
Locations and Languages
- Country:
- US
- Filming:
- US
- Languages:
- en