The Asylum

What would you get if you crossed The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity? Probably something that resembles this trailer for The Asylum's latest epic, Paranormal Entity.

The company, best known for making shoddy knockoffs of big budget hits (Transmorphers) or entertainingly awful original properties (Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus) has set their sights on Oren Peli's mega hit horror film Paranormal Activity for their latest project. What's most interesting about the film is that it's entirely possible that Paranormal Entity had a higher production budget than Paranormal Activity--which would seem to be a first for an Asylum film.

The movie's brief blurb describes it like this: Actual footage of the events leading to the 2008 "murder" of Samantha Finley. This DVD, released against the wishes of the authorities, proves that nothing human caused Samantha's death.

Quiet Earth scored the exclusive on the trailer and they're reporting that the studio isn't releasing the names of the actors or director involved with the project--because they're claiming it's all real footage. If you believe that, then you might also be interested in purchasing a bridge I own in Brooklyn. I'm a motivated seller--I'll let it go for a song.

Paranormal Entity is set to hit DVD on December 29th. Skip past the jump to see the trailer in all its glory.

I love Paranormal Activity. It's one of my favorite horror films (for a variety of reasons), yet its absolutely insane success has proven to be a double-edged sword for horror fans. On the one hand, it gives a level of legitimacy not often seen within the horror genre outside of the throngs of fans who live for it. Conversely, it gives The Asylum an opportunity to make another movie.

In the wake of the film Walking Distance changing its name to Experimental Activity, which much like the very existence of The Asylum is nothing more than a shameless attempt to capitalize on the success of others, it would seem the company behind stellar films such as The Day the Earth Stopped and Transmorphers (which may or may not be better than the film it's emulating) has decided to make their own adaptation of Oren Peli's smash hit, known simply as Paranormal Entity.

Those wonderful folks over at Quiet Earth even got a look at the poster and revealed a brief synopsis for the "mockbustermentary" (my word, not theirs):

"Actual found videotape footage of the 2008 "murders" of the Finley family."

Short and sweet. The film will pollute video stores on December 29th of this year.