Tag: Unnamed Footage Festival
Found footage fans rejoice as this year’s Unnamed Footage Festival celebrates its 8th anniversary, and, once again, brings some of the newest genre releases to you. As per usual, we take a look at just a few of the substantial number of short films showcased throughout the festival. Devil’s Prism (2025) Devil’s Prism is a
Online streamer ‘The Dark Lord of Love’s Park’ interaction with the online world consists of arguing with his chat, drinking himself into a stupor, and performing grotesque tasks for money. Or, in internet lingo, A lolcow. For kids unfamiliar with this term, a lolcow exists in the online space and makes their money off a
An Irish musician, played by writer, director, and editor Richard Waters, heads into the woods to record a music album. Using the inspiration of nature and a break from the chaos of the real world, the trip soon turns sour when the musician encounters a series of weird instances. Hearing dogs and sensing a constant
Who knew queer mommy vlog culture could be this unhinged? The Rebrand (2024), written and directed by Kaye Adelaide and with additional writing from Nancy Webb, is a wickedly campy descent into influencer hell—a horror-satire hybrid that gleefully peels back the pastel filter of curated online personas to reveal something grotesquely hilarious underneath. Nicole
The Unsolved Love Hotel Murder Case Incident is a 2024 Japanese found-footage horror film written and directed by Guy and Dave Jackson. An Osaka-based, English-born director, the mononymous Guy is known as the director of such films as The Sound of Summer (2022), as well as the short films The Rope Maiden (2013), Difficulty Breathing
Dream Eater is a 2024 Canadian found footage horror film written and directed by Alex Lee Williams, Jay Drakulic, and Mallory Drumm. After her partner injures himself during a bout of parasomnia, filmmaker Mallory (Mallory Drumm) takes her boyfriend, Alex (Alex Lee Williams), to an isolated cabin in the Laurentian mountains to document his behavior.
At this year’s Unnamed Footage Festival, the lineup of short found footage films promises to immerse audiences in thrilling and chilling narratives captured through unconventional lenses. From eerie home videos to haunting surveillance footage, these shorts offer glimpses into the unexplained and the macabre. With each film offering a unique perspective on the found footage
Not since 2006’s Stay Alive has video gaming been in the spotlight of horror in the way it is in 2023’s Livescreamers. Directed by Michelle Iannantuono, this sequel to the 2020 film Livescream follows a group of streamers testing out a new indie-horror game where all their secrets will be laid bare and the stakes
Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, decides to take on her grandmother’s regime for ‘good health’ after finding her notes in a secret room of her house where she is currently staying. However, as she aims to connect with her heritage, she soon finds that there is something sinister to the words, and she unwittingly invites
In the tradition of pseudo-local-TV broadcasts like Ghostwatch and WNUF Halloween Special, homegrown horror heads to N.Ireland in Dominic O’Neill’s Haunted Ulster Live. Set in 1998, TV newscaster Gerry Burns teams up with an aspiring children’s broadcaster to offer viewers a spooky Halloween special for the local network. They investigate a haunting at home, and