Is there a worse sub genre than found footage horror?
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Exorcism movies spring to mind.
shareBut nothing in the found footage horror subgenre has even come close to The Exorcist (1973). If there was a found footage horror film where most people could agree on was the best it wouldn't come close to that.
shareNah, but REC is pretty good. So is Trollhunter if that counts (possibly Cloverfield). Blair Witch Project has some love behind it, so do REC 2, Afflicted, Paranormal Activity
But how many good exorcism movies have there been since The Exorcist? I can only name Exorcist 3 if that counts and Emily Rose.
Granted both genres suck.
I'm casting my vote to "no."
"Found footage" can take a decent concept and make it terrible, yet (other than Blair Witch and Cannibal Holocaust), I can't think of a single one where it improved the concept.
Grave Encounters and the first Paranormal Activity were solid uses of the concept. VHS 2 is also a strong example of using POV handheld effectively.
What it sees, Lo Pan Knows!
It's one of my favorite subgenres.
Cannibal Holocaust
Man Bites Dog
The Last Broadcast
The Blair Witch Project
The Last Horror Movie
Noroi: The Curse
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
REC
REC 2
Cloverfield
Home Movie
Lake Mungo
The Last Exorcism
Trollhunter
The Tunnel
Megan Is Missing
Grave Encounters
Grave Encounters 2
V/H/S
V/H/S 2
The Conspiracy
The Bay
Devil's Pass
Willow Creek
Exists
Frankenstein's Army
Banshee Chapter
The Borderlands
The Den
Afflicted
The Sacrament
The Possession of Michael King
Hollows Grove
As Above, So Below
What We Do in the Shadows
Digging Up the Marrow
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Creep
Dabbe: Bir cin vakasi
Dabbe: Cin Çarpmasi
All good to great.
CG GORE IS THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO THE HORROR GENRE!
At first glance, it seems like you just listed all the found footage you possibly could. Most of these are downright terrible.
At second glance, it seems you went beyond that. A lot of the films in this list are just mockumentaries (Man Bites Dog, The Last Broadcast, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Noroi, The Tunnel, etc.). Some may consider it a nitpick, but a mockumentary is necessarily different from a "found footage" film. In it, a documentary film is deliberately engineered by a fictional filmmaker within the the premise. That footage isn't "found" by someone and then published after the fact, it's created and edited to spoof a documentary.
To wit, Spinal Tap is not a found footage film. It's a mockumentary. Whereas Paranormal Activity is not a mockumentary, it's a found footage film.
It doesn't matter if the footage isn't found by anyone, "found footage" is the term used to describe any movie where one of the characters films the events.
Most of these are downright terrible.
That's, like, your opinion.
And no I didn't list all the found footages movies I possibly could. Why the fck would I have done that?
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It doesn't matter if the footage isn't found by anyone, "found footage" is the term used to describe any movie where one of the characters films the events.
You are incorrect:
[genre] Found footage is a genre of film making, especially horror, in which all or a substantial part of a fictional film is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings, often left behind by missing or dead protagonists.
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-Found%20Footage
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I'm sick to death of it, but not because, in and of itself, "found footage" sucks, but because horror that makes it to wide theatrical distribution is almost always "found footage" now. Sinister was a nice break, and there have been others, but when I saw today that a horror film was playing down the road, I got excited, could taste the popcorn. Then, I looked at the trailer online and my heart sunk, my hopes dashed for a fun afternoon when I saw that it was yet another in a barrage of the same ol' same ol'. It's sad that any film that breaks form ends up on the smaller distribution "art house" circuit, like "It Follows," "Babadook," "Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"... Like 'em or hate 'em, at least they gently pressed against some very constraining boundaries in recent theatrical horror. The person on this thread who lists a zillion "good to great" found footage films included several films I liked and thought the found footage point of view made sense. Still, for years now, it's simply been the formula that sells (and exorcism movies, not all of which have been bad) in horror, and they'll keep churning them out with a cookie cutter until horror fans say "enough," and stop buying tickets, though it probably only takes a few hundred people buying tickets to put these movies in the black. I'm very ready for some fresh ideas in horror, or fresh approaches to old good ideas.
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give august underground a chance, its a trilogy of found footage. It will make you stop whining about the genre.
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creekin111 you know what is worse than found footage horror films? It is people who call them that and don't even know what they truly are. I have seen many people on IMDB calling certain films found footage time and time again and the movies weren't found footage.
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