Tag: Found Footage
We previously had the chance to check out Thomas Burke’s short film Camping Fun, a quick dive into a small cult that showed that Burke had the knack to channel his love of the found footage genre into a terrifying short. Now/ looking to take on a subgenre from the overall found footage genre of
In a previous article of mine, I mentioned the creation of found footage and incorrectly attributed this title to Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick’s The Blair Witch Project (1999). Although it is true that The Blair Witch Project thrust the genre into the mainstream limelight, there were actually a number of entries to genre much
Asian horror is both a treasure trove and a rabbit hole. When you find a gem that’s too good to not be seen, you can’t help but dig deep until you drown in a chock-full watchlist. That is how I felt when I first saw The Butcher (2008), a found-footage pseudo-snuff film from South Korea.
Despite having little promotion budget or recognizable cast to draw interest – Netlflix’s latest horror series, Archive 81, has quickly sky-rocketed to the #1 most-watched American series within its first week of release. Based on the first season of the popular found footage podcast of the same name, Archive 81 is a supernatural thriller that follows
Welcome to the second part of our list Celebrating The Best Hidden Gems of The Found Footage Horror Genre! We covered a lot of ground already, but have just as far to go again in showcasing to you some great films you may not have seen yet. We have monsters, demons, the undead, and even
From the dawn of humanity’s time on this Earth, fear has been the most important feeling for the survival of man. It is what keeps us alive, the reason we exist and stand above many other species as the dominant force on this planet. But what is fear? Is it the venomous insect crawling
A mockumentary framing offers a nice spin to the found footage genre. While most found footage films are shot and arranged in an amateur fashion to preserve their realism and home video sense, mockumentary is its counterpart. Here, the believability of the horror comes from one’s flair in crafting conceivable documentation of something purely fictional.
From director Banjong Pisanthanakun and writer Na Hong-jin comes a Thai-Korean, Shudder-exclusive feature exploring the thin line between humans and spirits and what happens to those who cross that line without appropriate psychic protection. Presented as part travel documentary and part found footage, The Medium takes place in Isan, northeastern Thailand. Isan is a region
When the found footage genre became fully established in the late 90s with the release of The Blair Witch Project (1999), the cinematic technique was hailed as an inventive, tenable new perspective on horror that was great for budgetary restraints. Although, since then, the genre has become clichéd to a degree, with titles often disregarding
The found-footage subgenre of horror is probably the most threadbare of its kind. The cinematic possibilities and the amount of legroom where a creative might pull a stunt out of it are unquestionably finite. That is because the “found footage” conceit itself is the “stunt” that is supposed to manifest only occasionally to preserve its