10 Horror Movie Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

10. The Ending Of Paranormal Activity Was Changed By Steven Speilberg

As a first time director about to drop his debut movie, Oren Peli had no idea what an effect he was going to have on the industry when he unleashed Paranormal Activity on the world.

We all - fondly, or not - remember that period of found footage movies that dominated every waking moment of our film experience for a good few years, born from Peli's now ridiculously successful and profitable idea to just film a load of spooky stuff around his house. Why pay big money when you can scare the sh*t out of people to the tune of a $100 million simply by creaking your door a bit?

The Paranormal Activity we got wasn't actually he one that Peli had originally planned however, with the shock ending of Katie lunging at the camera actually an interjection from Steven Spielberg himself. After cutting a deal with the production companies, Spielberg suggested an alteration from Peli's version where Katie got shot to appeal to a wider audience.

Peli went with it, but has openly stated how much he prefers his original version ever since. Can't have sour grapes with Steven freaking Spielberg though, really.