When someone makes a movie for less than a new car ($15,000) and it goes on to make over $100 million at the box office, you can guarantee yourself that a sequel is not too far off. And such is the case with Paranormal Activity 2 — the follow-up to the massive “home movie” horror flick that terrified the money right out of the pockets of gushing fans last Fall.

Since we’ve always known a sequel was coming and didn’t have to wait for a greenlight, the question has always been who would direct the sequel. The first movie’s captain, Oren Peli, has already lined up a new job doing a similar movie involving aliens called Area 51, and it was he who was happy to announce who would be taking over for him on Paranormal 2 via the official website.

Paranormal Activity
UK Edition
Directed by Oren Peli
Starring Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat
Icon Home Entertainment
UK Release date: March 22, 2010

Recently Micah and Katie have been aware of strange activity at night in their San Diego home. They have been woken by odd noises, whispers, and the sound of footsteps. Katie has witnessed paranormal activity periodically since she was a child and now it has caught up with her once more. Micah invests in a video camera and over the course of twenty-one nights in the summer of 2006, films the supernatural occurrences in his house.

Initially he puts it down to everyday things like a creaky house or the ice-maker. The first physical evidence he catches on camera — the bedroom door slowly swinging shut, then slowly opening again — he just thinks is cool to watch back on his laptop. But he records more and more evidence as the nights get worse and he begins to realise how serious their problem is. This movie is what was found on his tapes.

Back in October, movie fans demanded to have the horror-thriller Paranormal Activity released in theaters in their city, which led to the film earning over $100 million at the box office.

If you didn’t get a chance to see it in your area, Paramount Home Entertainment recently the movie on DVD and Blu-ray.

To accompany your home viewings, we here at Geeks of Doom have one (1) Paranormal Activity Scare Kit to give away to one lucky reader!

One (1) winner will each receive:

• One (1) Paranormal Activity ‘Scare Kit’ containing:
• A Ouija Board
• A Barrel Sling Duffel bag
• A Satin Sleep Mask
• A Planchette
• And Baby Powder

TO ENTER:

(1) Make sure you’re subscribed to the Geeks of Doom email digest. If you’re not then click here and sign up. (If you’re already a subscriber, then go right to the next step.)

(2) Fill out the entry form here below and submit. (Form is here after the jump.)

Good luck!

FREE STUFF ALERT:

Right now, visit Amazon’s CODE REDEEM page and enter code AVODGIFT to receive $4 credit (no purchase necessary) to use towards a Video On Demand rental or purchase through Amazon’s VoD catalog. You have until January 3, 2010 11:59 PM PST to redeem the code and apply it to a rental or purchase.

Also, Amazon is currently offering several Buy Now Watch Now deals on the latest movie releases for U.S. customers.

Check out some of my picks here below from the eligible Buy Now Watch Now titles.

– Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – 2-disc DVD or Blu-ray
– Terminator Salvation – Blu-ray
– The Hangover – 2-disc Unrated DVD or Blu-ray
– Paranormal Activity – 2-disc DVD or Blu-ray
– Interview with the Vampire – Blu-ray
– Ghostbusters – Blu-ray
– North by Northwest – 50th Anniversary Edition DVD
– Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Blu-ray

As you might have noticed, the homemade looking ghost movie Paranormal Activity is on a mission to rule the world with ours and many others’ support (Read: Help Needed NOW! You The Fans Can Get “˜Paranormal Activity’ The Wide Release It Deserves!). That movie was Oren Peli‘s first ever movie as a director, but it has not taken him a long time to line up a second job that will run in the same circles as his first work.

The trades are reporting that Peli will make a movie called Area 51 in which a group of three teens decide to grab their video camera and head to the infamous and mysterious Nevada desert location that is so renowned for its tales of alien species crashing and being stored there. That is about all that is known of the project, but as you can assume, what these three will surely document is some unbelievable footage of alien beings that may just get out of hand in a hurry. Paranormal producer Jason Blum will return for this project, and the budget will be a massive $5 Million. That may not sound like much in the world of movies, but remembering that Paranormal only cost $11,000, you can only imagine what Peli will come up with.