Paranormal Activity Supernatural Box Office

Over the three-day weekend, Paranormal Activity made almost $8 million. Pretty good for a no-budget, no-name surveillance tape of a movie. But when you consider it showed in only 160 theatres, making almost $50,000 per, we're talking Blair Witch numbers.

That's the trouble, though. I haven't seen it, but is the idea of the film more important than the film itself? Blair Witch didn't scare me so much as give me a headache. Is Paranormal Activity just another viral video, but this time I'm expected to fork over 10 bucks for the privilege of viewing it?