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Oren Peli

Born January 21, 1970 · Ramat Gan, Israel (age 56)

Oren Peli is an Israeli-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer best known for creating and directing the groundbreaking horror film Paranormal Activity. Produced on a microbudget, the film became a worldwide phenomenon and helped redefine modern found footage horror. Peli has since produced and developed numerous genre projects, including Insidious, Area 51, Chernobyl Diaries, The Bay and …

Known For

Insidious: Out of the Further

Insidious: Out of the Further · 2026

Insidious: Out of the Further

MovieHorrorThriller

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2 · 2013

Insidious: Chapter 2

MovieHorrorThriller

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Insidious: Chapter 3

Insidious: Chapter 3 · 2015

Insidious: Chapter 3

MovieHorrorThriller

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

Insidious: The Red Door

Insidious: The Red Door · 2023

Insidious: The Red Door

MovieHorrorThriller

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

Insidious

Insidious · 2011

MovieHorrorThriller

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

Insidious: The Last Key

Insidious: The Last Key · 2018

Insidious: The Last Key

MovieHorrorThriller

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones · 2014

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

MovieHorrorThriller

Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity · 2027

Paranormal Activity

MovieHorrorMystery

The eighth installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.

Filmography

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Insidious: Out of the Further

Insidious: Out of the Further · 2026

Insidious: Out of the Further

MovieHorrorThriller

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

Producer

Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2 · 2013

Insidious: Chapter 2

MovieHorrorThriller

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

Producer

Insidious: Chapter 3

Insidious: Chapter 3 · 2015

Insidious: Chapter 3

MovieHorrorThriller

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

Producer

Insidious: The Red Door

Insidious: The Red Door · 2023

Insidious: The Red Door

MovieHorrorThriller

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

Producer

Insidious

Insidious · 2011

MovieHorrorThriller

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

Producer

Insidious: The Last Key

Insidious: The Last Key · 2018

Insidious: The Last Key

MovieHorrorThriller

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

Producer

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones · 2014

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

MovieHorrorThriller

Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul.

Producer

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity · 2027

Paranormal Activity

MovieHorrorMystery

The eighth installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.

Producer

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity · 2009

Paranormal Activity

MovieHorrorMystery

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

Director

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin · 2021

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

MovieHorrorMystery

Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.

Producer

Paranormal Activity 4

Paranormal Activity 4 · 2012

Paranormal Activity 4

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

Producer

Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3 · 2011

Paranormal Activity 3

MovieHorrorMystery

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Producer

Paranormal Activity 2

Paranormal Activity 2 · 2010

Paranormal Activity 2

MovieHorrorMystery

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

Producer

Chernobyl Diaries

Chernobyl Diaries · 2012

Chernobyl Diaries

MovieHorrorThriller

A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

Producer

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension · 2015

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

MovieHorrorThriller

Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan.

Producer

The Lords of Salem

The Lords of Salem · 2013

The Lords of Salem

MovieHorrorThriller

Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?

Producer

Area 51

Area 51 · 2015

MovieHorrorMystery

Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.

Director

The Bay

The Bay · 2012

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

Producer

The River

The River · 2012

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole sets course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.

Story