Found Footage
Four Forgotten Early Found Footage Movies
Found footage might be all the rage right now, but that doesn’t mean that it’s new. Most trends in horror aren’t. The genre just moves in cycles. The concept of a film shot in a POV style, maintaining...
Five Fierce Found Footage Flicks
Let’s face it, found footage lost its edge roughly twenty seconds after the release of its seminal feature, The Blair Witch Project. However, that didn’t stop every opportunistic wannabe a...
Blair Witch Project Doc, The Woods Debuts Trailer Announces Premiere
More than 15 years after the release of one of the most influential horror films of all time, a documentary chronicling the production of the phenomenon that is The Blair Witch Project is being releas...
Asylum: The Lost Footage is Tragically Flawed
Directed by Dan T. Hall, Asylum: The Lost Footage, isn’t sure what type of movie it is. It has schizophrenic tendencies–switching from documentary-style interviews to found footage to normal nar...
Five Horror Movies Based on a True Story That Actually Weren’t
If you want to get someone to watch a horror movie, even if they don’t particularly like the genre, tell them it’s based on a true story. Then they’ll want to watch, they’ll want to get all of t...
The Taking Of Deborah Logan – Fighting The Unknown
Directed by Adam Robitel, The Taking of Deborah Logan (also known as The Taking), is a possession movie with a twist. Ph.D. student Mia Medina (Michelle Ang- Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son) is maki...
Advance Review – Hangar 10
The found footage genre is alive and well in 2014 – a genre that itself has spanned a series of sub-genres within itself. Hangar 10 is a British sci-fi thriller output that does not work as well...
The Poughkeepsie Tapes Offers Ample Shocks and Scares
Directed and written by brothers John and Drew Dowdle, The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a “found footage” film, told in a faux-documentary style. Centering on the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, a stash of o...
Retrospective – Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
Henry is a testament to how powerful a film can be even without much of anything to work with at all. Based loosely on the story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, it was made for only $100,000 and its...
