Area 51 Trailer: You Can Finally See Oren Peli’s Follow-Up to Paranormal Activity

Talk about found footage. I don’t mean the style of this horror film but the fact that someone at Paramount seems to have finally found the film while cleaning house on their folding Insurge shingle. As we noted in a list we posted two months ago, Oren Pelli‘s Area 51 appeared to be one of a number of potentially great movies we’ll never have a chance to see. It was shot in the fall of 2009 and has been sitting on a shelf or in a top secret military facility or was being held hostage by aliens or something ever since. But we do now have a chance to see it. Area 51 is hitting VOD and a very, very limited and very, very brief, weekend-long theatrical run exclusively at Alamo Drafthouse theaters starting May 15th.

It doesn’t look terrible, even if it doesn’t seem to do anything interesting with the found-footage style that Pelli previously worked with on Paranormal Activity, his only other directorial effort (he also produced Lords of Salem, Chernobyl Diaries and the Insidious movies). Still, the main reason to see this now will be out of curiosity to see what’s wrong with it. Besides the premise of a bunch of young people sneaking into Area 51 and freely poking around being totally implausible. There’s no way it’s been delayed so long just because Pelli was still working on it.

Here is the official synopsis:

AREA 51 is directed by Oren Peli, written by Oren Peli and Christopher Denham and produced by Jason Blum and Steven Schneider. The film follows Reid, who has always been obsessed with UFOs. While on a weekend trip to Vegas, he convinces two friends to join him on a mission to break into Area 51, where they find terrifying proof of alien presence. Starring Reid Warner, Jamel King, Ben Rovner and Jelena Nik.

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