Chronicle did a good job at portraying what kids would do with superpowers. The normal kid being the hero, who wanted there to be limits on their powers The popular kid being the anti hero, who wanted to use them to have fun And the introvert the villain, who used them to take out his anger because he had a horrible life
Found footage horror movies really had a way of making you, the audience, feel like you're really inside the film yourself. The shaky movement of the camera, the hidden footage that cameras don't pick up really add on to the angst of horror films
I think an honourable mention should go to 'Man Bites Dog', a Belgian 'found footage' film that pre-dates Blair Witch by several years. It didn't have the commercial success or recognition of many of the films you mention here, and isn't strictly a horror movie, although it is probably the most horrifying and disturbing movie I've seen. And unlike most films in the genre, the 'monster' is always on screen, right there in front of you, making jokes and sharing his thoughts on philosophy, culture and the science of ensuring dead bodies don't float when you dump them in the river. It was banned in Sweden, and some scenes were heavily edited or cut entirely for its US release, so I'd recommend getting hold of an original copy if you can...or not, as it's really not an easy watch.
I remember renting this movie with friends, at some horror/fantasy store, back in the late 90s... I only watched it once and I remember it going from dark humour to absolute nightmare. I think it scarred me for life.
Another movie that's genre stemmed from this found footage genre was Host (2020). Instead of being found footage horror, it's horror among friends during a skype call. It's actually really good and still scares the crap out of me.
One of the scariest found footage horror movies I've watched is probably Megan is Missing. It's just so scary that it traumatized most people, including me.
Found footage movies are very cool and fascinating! They make the movies the all more realistic, due to how the cinematography is handled. Maybe one day in the future, we could get some sort of comeback which would be really cool! But for now, the found footage genre has seemed to to disappear. But at least all the ones we have gotten (from what I’ve seen) have been pretty good. So at least we have those
Grave Encounters was my favourite horror movie by far for years! It's still up there with my favourites - I've just seen it about 10 times already showing it to different friends and I know it by heart haha
I strongly recommend watching both REC and REC 2. By far the two scariest found footage movies I’ve ever seen. It’s also possible that you had thought you had seen REC because you may have seen Quarantine instead. The lame American remake.
Talk to me is only ACTUAL quality straight HORROR movie in the last 3 years. Maybe a Quiet Place II, everything else has been a complete bust/covid bust
The Blair Witch Project seemed like an awesome pop culture phenomenon back then and to have been apart of it must have been so cool and I wish I was around back then to have witnessed it , I mean I was around back in 1999 but I was only 5 years old at that time so I couldn't properly witness it back then haha Lol, at least I got to witness the Paranormal Activity pop culture phenomenon and hell yeah Creep is great and Project X is the best party movie of all time 🤘🔥
I've always loved found footage. 'The Last Broadcast' is where modern FF starts in my opinion. If you watch the credits for Paranormal Activity, my name's in there as a donor lol I remember the theater being a madhouse the night it premiered. While I'll always have a soft spot for that franchise, my favorite is GRAVE ENCOUNTERS. It starts like a normal FF paranormal show but then devolves into pure nightmare fuel. Highly recommended! EDIT : I wrote this during your intro. I didn't expect it to be your first choice! The Vicious Brothers have been working on GE3 for a while now. Hopefully it'll see the light of day eventually.
Definitely would love to see you do a full paranormal activity plot deep dive the way you did with the insidious movies! I stopped watching them after. I think the third or fourth one can't remember which because they just got so terrible around that time
My favourite found footage film has got to be Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. A Korean found footage horror film, that genuinely gave me the creeps, it's def a must watch
Paranormal Activity might just be the genesis of my most hated horror movie trope, characters getting attacked by invisible monsters… It’s not even slightly unsettling to see someone being pushed/pulled around by some unseen force; in fact, it’s often ironically hilarious. That said, PA still holds up well to this day.
One film that grabbed my attention recently is "Ghostwatch". Not officially a found-footage movie but has a lot of the same elements applied to a news broadcast going off the rails.
At first, i wasn't too keen on Found Footage films. But as someone obsessed with time travel stories, i managed to sit through Project Alamanac which i really really like. It led me to watch more FF Films and it is my second best film in this genre beaten only by Cloverfield
Charman, The Blackwell Ghost, The Monster Project, As Above So Below, Deadstream, Demon House & Marrow are all great found footage films that i still go back and watch over to this day so i recommend then highly if you have not already saw them you will not be disappointed!
Great video, really took me back. I was 12 when Blair Witch came out. I remember watching the so called documentary about the incendent on the Sci-Fi channel before the movie came out. 100% thought it was real at the time. Found footage will always be a favorite genera of mine, despits there being many bad ones. Be it horror or comedy mocumentaries, I give them a chance. V.H.S is a series I keep missing butt have been meaning to marathon. There really are a number of hidden gems. Behind the Mask, The Last Horror movie, The Taking of Debrah Logan. As for a favorite, Grave Encounters is one that still makes me jump and look away. Though I feel we' re on the cusp of more great found footage. I had stopped look until recently when I discovered the Hell House LLC franchise and the Fear Tape series. Those newer franchises really resparked my interest and hopes for more.
As Above So Below and Grave Encounters are my two favorite found footage horror movies and i thought the 2016 Blair Witch movie was good and better than most people say it is. I like these kind of horror movies so sad that they seem to be almost exinct now.
Yesss please do a deep dive into the paranormal activity movies! I wanna see if I made the right connections about Toby & the coven! Chronicle is definitely a hidden gem & I love quarantine the American version of Rec! The taking of Deborah Logan & Diary of the dead was good too! This channel is so dope!
Found footage movies definitely give me the creeps more... I am not sure if it's because the camera being handheld makes ME feel like I'm there and makes it all so vulnerable.
Gonjiam is the best found footage horror movie I've seen in a long time. My favorite mockumentary / footage type is lake Mungo, then the last exorcism 😊
One of the reasons I loved these movies was how real most of them felt and it looked we were looking at real life footage. I would love to see more of these movies.
I think a new version of the genre could be "body-cam movie" I could see that working well in a variety of situations. War, Zombies, slasher. Sky's the limit.
What made Blair Witch great was that the actors were actually filming as well. It was real handheld footage. But then stuff like Cloverfield would fake the handheld aspect and do it really badly to were it was almost unwatchable. Found footage needs to be raw not polished. That's the whole point of Found footage, it's suppose to be like an average person catching something on film, that makes it seem more real.
Host (2020) is a pretty cool screenlife horror movie, it was really just perfect for the pandemic, now it feels kinda outdated. Paranormal activity 1 is actually phenomenal, I think it is at least in the top 3 in the found footage genre together with the first grave encounters movie.
I loved District 9 - I remember watching it in my Foreign Policy class to talk about immigration policy and xenophobia, and my professor had us draw direct parallels to historical immigration policies and their effects. It really was a great way to use media to show real world narratives in a new way
I remember that I saw BWP as a teen and those were other times. It wasnt common sense that everything you see in reality tv was scripted. I was quite naive but so were my peers because it was not like anything anyone of us had seen before. A little bit like the war of the worlds radio show must have been altough we had a strong sense of doubt. Is this real? Could it be real? It looks so convincing and is most of the time very consistent (you dont get cuts or edits or shots that disturb the illusion of found footage). Great video!
I always find it interesting how Last Broadcast is ignored seeing it is heavily found footage and pre dates Blair Witch. The Borderlands is a good film
I love the found footage style type of movies because for me it feels more real, yes the pool of FF are not the best but once you find one. its great, I hope they make comeback in a good way. if you need to change it because of phones then okay change it for phones.
I'm surprised you didn't mentioned like, the entire phenomena that is web found footage, like not even counting analog and digital horror as subgenres, althought those can be good when done correctly, i could like mention so many found footage webseries like Marble Hornets, EverymanHYRBID, HiImMaryMary, Daisy Brown, Stan Frederick, the entirety of the slenderverse, lonelygirl15 and its spin-offs, i personally think like, found footage as a thing never went away, it just kinda left the mainstream for a while, and i personally disagree completely on the "Suspension of disbelif about cameras" aspect, i think the opposite, with modern day, there's so many cameras around us at all times, in our phones, in our computers, in our devices, i think found footage has never been more suited for it, everyone already has a camera on their pocket at all times, and you could also just make the character holding the camera a camera freak that likes having cameras, or like what Creep 2 did, a youtuber, or a vlogger, or what REC and Blair Witch did, just straight up a cameraman. Wham City Comedy made this p popular short/ARG for Adult Swim called This House has people in it, that one utlized CCTV footage, in a house of a family that was being monitored, and you could go to a real website, solve puzzles, and use a DOS-esq interface to manually activate recordings and documents, and phone calls, oh and thats not even counting ARG's and Unfiction, and non-found footage/found footage related things like that, then there's mockumentaries, and comedy found footage, fantasy found footage, and yes as i mentioned, Analog Horror and Digital horror are a thing that can be done really well, and i'm surprised there hasn't been many more like screen recording found footage films because there's like 4 and 2 of them are bad, and you can also play with metanarratives, and play with the format and have amazing shots and scenes taking advantage of the genre, you can blur the reality of what is real or not, acting or a thing that is really happening, both in the narrative and outside of it making the audience question what's happening, you can have this weird contrast between the really realistic format of found footage, video, that's supposed to be this objective thing but contrast it with things that make no logical sense, or are impossible for them to happen, like Skinamarink and We are going to the world's fair, and i'm rambling, i'll stop, this is a good video, very well done, i enjoyed it. EDIT: I FORGOT TO MENTION PETSCOP, BEN DROWNED AND DIMINISH
CLOVERFIELD was easily the best to me growing up! I really do feel like alot of us have our own love for Found Footage films. CHRONICLE is a very close 2nd. Also PLEASE do the PARANORMAL video!
My list of my favorite found footage movies. In no particular order. Afflicted (2013) Evidence (2012) Evidence (2013) Not related to the 2012 one. Alien Outpost (2014) Lunopolis (2010) More of a mockumentary The Tunnel (2011) Troll Hunter (2010) Europa Report (2013) Devil's Pass (2013) Into the Storm (2014) Jeruzalem (2015) Banshee Chapter (2013) Megan Is Missing (2011) Devil's Due (2014) Alien Abduction (2014) Skinwalker Ranch (2013) Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012) The McPherson Tape (1989) Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998) Without Warning (1994) Wer (2013) The Gracefield Incident (2017) The River (2012) This was a show on ABC. Only one season ending in a cliffhanger. But a good show. The Conspiracy (2012) Depending on how much you know of the world. This may be a scary one for you.
I just found your channel off of your series explained vids and I rlly like your content, the commentary is interesting and is definitely more entertaining than the other horror review vids on RU-vid
I don’t know why, but I just don’t like found footage movies. I have nothing against you if you like them, but when I watch them, they just feel TOO much like they’re just people recording themselves, even when there’s a great story. I know that’s the point, but they just don’t feel enough like movies to me (even though they are), and they just feel TOO amature, and not in a good way. It’s harder to escape from reality with them, too. They just aren’t my thing. I’ve wanted to watch District 9, Chronicle, and Apollo 18, but I just can’t shake the feeling that I won’t like them because they are found footage.
A great found-footage Movie and TV Series is LOOK. Look is a 2007 American found footage film directed by Adam Rifkin. Look: The Series is an American television drama series that was broadcast on Showtime from October 10 to December 19, 2010. It is written, produced, and directed by Adam Rifkin. Both follows several interweaving storylines over the course of a weeks in Los Angeles. Great movie and tv show, Look it up !
Hi typewriter, so I know this is a Longshot but there’s this movie that no one has covered and it’s pretty much been forgotten that came out in 2015 and I just thought if you did a video on it I just thought you know it be a really good video because it’s like this is like a forgotten movie almost called in the heart of the Sea and it has many big names in it. It has Chris Hemsworth, Tom Holland, and the guy who’s in the new Oppenheimer movie. Oh no check it out if you want
Personally I love Hellhouse LLC, forget the sequels you can just watch the first one and be satisfied but man I watched that with my girlfriend and it scared the shit out of both of us lol
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