MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has announced that the ParanormalMovie.com website has been deluged with over 230,000 ‘demands‘ from coast-to-coast in the US.

This has prompted Paramount to expand the new thriller Paranormal Activity to 20-additional cities across the US from 2 October.

The cities with the highest demands include Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. The film will continue to play exclusively as a midnight-only showing.

Paramount adds that the film played to sold-out crowds in exclusive midnight showings in cities across the country the last weekend with fans driving great distances to be among the first to see the film in their town. Tickets for the existing 12-markets are quickly selling out.

In the film after a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban "starter" tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially, when they sleep or try to.

Written, directed and produced by Oren Peli, the thriller stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat.