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Trivia: The only film in the series not to feature "Nights." (Ex. "Night 1," "Night 2," etc).

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Trivia: The only "Paranormal Activity" film not released in October. Its production ran long, so it was instead released in January.

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Trivia: Strangely enough, despite being the fourth film, "Paranormal Activity 4" is actually the first proper sequel in the series. Both the second and third films were prequels to the original.

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Trivia: The actors who play Alex's parents were actually married in real life. Tragically, the actor playing her father (Stephen Dunham) had a heart-attack and passed away less than a month before the film hit theaters.

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Trivia: The movie takes place in the 80's, and is supposedly being filmed on an old VHS camcorder. In actuality, it was filmed on modern-day HD camcorders, and digitally "aged" to look like old VHS footage.

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Trivia: Reportedly, so much footage was shot during production, the producers suggested that they could construct an entire second movie out of the leftover deleted and unused scenes.

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Trivia: Spoilers: An alternate ending in which Katie kills baby Hunter instead of kidnapping him was filmed, but never shown due to it being too bleak. It was also decided that Katie kidnapping the child was far scarier, so the new theatrical ending was shot to take its place.

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Trivia: Notably, the previews for this film (and several other sequels in the series) contained footage not seen in the finished movie. The previews were often made primarily of footage from alternate and deleted scenes. The producers and directors hinted that this was done to help keep the story secret, despite being a bit shady on their part.

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Trivia: Originally, Kevin Greutert, who edited the first five "Saw" movies and also directed "Saw VI" and "Saw 3D," was attached to direct. However, Lionsgate enacted a contractual clause to remove him from the film. While an exact reason was never given, it has been widely speculated that this was done because the "Paranormal Activity" movies were the only direct competition for the "Saw" series at the box office.

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Trivia: Several of the exterior shots of the house are either entirely CG or have CG elements added to them. For example, the overhead shot of the delivery truck pulling up to the house was entirely digital. And some digital greenery was added to live-action shots of the real house to make it seem more secluded. Due to the low budget nature of the film, it was easier (and cheaper) to use simple digital effects than to rent helicopters for overhead shots and add in fake trees and plants.

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Trivia: Co-Writer Ivan Raimi has a cameo as a doctor in the film, in the same scene in which John Landis and Jenny Agutter also cameo. (He's the doctor who is front and center in the frame after Agutter says the line "I'd give him a nine on the 'buzzard scale.'") In addition to being a part-time screenwriter, Ivan is actually also a doctor in real life.

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Trivia: If you pay attention, the Cenobite "Chatterer" first appears eyeless, then has eyes later in the film. This is because the actor underneath the makeup (Nicholas Vince) hated performing blind and requested the makeup be redesigned to give the character eyes. A scene was filmed that showed Pinhead giving Chatterer eyes as a sort-of gift, but the scene was cut, leading to the continuity error.

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Trivia: The shop-owner who sells Bill back his old bike "Silver" is played by Stephen King, author of the original "It" novel and numerous other famous books.

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Trivia: Several of the child-actors who portray the "Losers Club" had to be digitally "de-aged" as they had grown up tremendously in the two years between films.

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Trivia: All of the episode titles are references to dialogue from the original 1982 film.

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Trivia: A sequel to the original film, titled "The Power of the Dark Crystal," was initially planned. However, the film spent many years in development hell with several different writers and directors being attached at different points. Eventually, French director Louis Letterier became attached to the project around 2012, and it was subsequently retooled into this prequel series for Netflix. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" was finally released in the Summer of 2019 - almost 37 years after the original debuted in Winter, 1982.

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Trivia: While he enjoyed the finished film, star Bill Paxton admitted he wished "Twister" was a bit darker and edgier. For a while around 2010, he tried to get a sequel off the ground to deliver this more intense vision, and he was even interested in potentially directing the follow-up. Little is known about what the sequel would have been about, although Paxton hinted he wanted to utilize 3D filming techniques (which had been re-popularized by James Cameron's "Avatar") to really put the audience into the tornado chases. Unfortunately, the sequel never came together.

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Trivia: Originally in the early 90's, Quentin Tarantino was approached to write the film based on scripts he had written including "True Romance." A deal wasn't finished at the time and Tarantino backed away. A few years later, after Tarantino became a successful director, he was again approached about the project. He was planning to produce the film with his friend Scott Spiegel (co-writer of "Evil Dead II") directing, but again, a deal was unable to be reached. According to Tarantino, his version of "Halloween 6" would have taken a step back after the events of "Halloween 4" and "Halloween 5" and told a simpler, stripped down story more akin to the original than any of the prior sequels.

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Trivia: The movie was filmed on Sony High Definition camcorders as opposed to traditional 16 or 35mm film. The camcorders used were among the first to offer the cinema standard 24 frames-per-second as an option (as compared to the home-video standard of 30fps) which helped make the image look closer to cinema-quality. The movie was one of the first mainstream films shot primarily on digital video.

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Trivia: The film was shot primarily at the Danvers State Asylum, an abandoned hospital. The script was written around the shooting location based on what rooms and corridors were safe to shoot in. Little to no set-dressing had to be done for the film, as it was suitably dilapidated and filled with abandoned medical equipment, which helped add to the film's atmosphere.

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