2007 had not seen a whole lot
of found footage movies, so this style was relatively new, and it's yet to have been done better.
To justify why I like it, I need only point out the first and the last
segments of the found footage anthology as the two that really made me love the film.
The
idea of found footage and shooting the movie from the point of view of a video cameras is fully executed down to each scene.
Granted, we're still stuck with a
myriad of found footage movies, but we've also seen several cool aesthetics I hope to see more of.
Best known for a transgressive, pioneering
use of found footage throughout his career, Conner was equally dedicated to the use of self - shot and self - edited film.
Are you excited to see what Roland Emmerich can do with the limitations of a small budget, or are you getting
sick of found footage films?
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (R for violence and profanity) Sixth and final installment
of the found footage horror franchise featuring supernatural phenomena around the haunted house in Palo Alto just moved into by a married couple (Chris J. Murray and Brit Shaw) with of a young son (Dan Gill) and daughter (Ivy George).
The tumultuous
montage of found footage puts actual coverage of the event in context with the popular mythology of the nation's 35th president.
The show is the outgrowth of a project Lerner and Ortiz - Torres worked on together earlier, a 1995 film called Frontierland / Fronterilandia; one
piece of found footage had theme park performers dressed as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse doing an interpretation of a traditional Mexican hat dance.
In perhaps the most misogynistic festival offering of the year, it plumbed the depths
of the found footage genre with its repetitive inanity.
And his films, made
up of found footage, predict both Christian Marclay's The Clock and Internet supercuts.
A saturated picture that courses with the raw energy
of found footage while still feeling artfully composed, a movie that punches with the skittering violence of dubstep but careens through L.A. with the unbridled freedom of bebop jazz.
That film is the
granddaddy of found footage films, despite the fact that Paranormal Activity gets most of the credit when it revitalized the genre a full eight years later.
Debuting January 29, 2013, Blu - ray / DVD Combo Includes «The Recovered Files» — Nearly 30
Minutes of Found Footage Not Shown in Theaters!
But In A Valley Of Violence is very squarely a Western; it only hints at its director's background in indie horror in a gruesome throat - slitting that happens late in the movie and an inspired sequence that unexpectedly applies the
aesthetic of found footage to a flashback.
Internet video skull - rewinders Everything Is Terrible!bring their brain - melting, eye - shattering, jaw - dropping mayhem to Fantastic Fest for the first time with the World Premiere of their latest
assemblage of found footage transdimensional travel.
The
evolution of found footage from creative device to horror subgenre has robbed the design of almost all its luster and originality.
Perhaps the most intriguing thing of this remake is that this will be a much more faithful adaptation of King's first novel because there is going to be an
element of found footage to the film which makes perfect sense if you have read the novel.
While the film is wrapping up, Ani's son Raffi (Alpay, Man of the Year) finds a calling to travel to the lands where the events took place in
hopes of finding footage for the film, and more importantly, perspective on his life and those of his people, although his step - sister (and lover) Celia (Croze, Battlefield Earth) has made it her mission to discredit Ani as the woman who drove her father to commit suicide.
Most pleasant surprise Chronicle The
combination of found footage and a superhero story doesn't sound terribly promising, given how both genres tend to get abused in the multiplex, but this film from first - time director Josh Trank and writer Max Landis brings genuine adolescent angst and a fresh angle to both elements.
While Trank's Chronicle took the
concept of found footage superhero and made it work, applying a grounded tone to the Fantastic Four may prove challenging.
At a time when a vast
majority of found footage films follow a formulaic blueprint and execution, Dean Israelite's Project Almanac brings something new to the table.
Putting aside «Paranormal Activity» and «Lake Mungo» there are few gems among the
mountains of found footage horror movies out there.
Also, in recent weeks, we had Chronicle, an ambitious spin on the Superman mythology with a script by Max «Son Of John» Landis, though that was an example of a film that would have worked just as well without the use
of the found footage gimmick.
Notable for the revitalization of the teen slasher film and the
genesis of the found footage craze, the «90s horror films became a metaphor for the psychological and physical terrors that we inflict on our fellow humans (especially the vulnerable ones).
When Josh Trank was picked to helm the reboot of the Fantastic Four — on the
strength of his found footage take on superpowered people, Chronicle — it was seen as a very good move by 20th Century Fox.
Unsane takes the handmade
appearance of a found footage movie but removes the artificial gimmickry, and only leaves the general sensation that this horrible story feels more «real» than we'd really like it to.
Devilishly crafty and expertly focused, it fell in with the usual
suspects of found footage horror, even though it was so much more than just another point and shoot, «gotcha!»
Friendship is the heart and soul of the fake documentary film shot in the
spirit of found footage from Clif Prowse and Derek Lee.
Someone I saw the movie with made a good point that despite the tiresome
application of found footage, this movie was able to surpass that self - hindrance well enough.
If you played Beginning Hour, you encountered one
of these found footage type segments where you were introduced to the «Sewer Gators» film crew and witnessed their grisly fate.
All of this mixed reality scene setting makes even (admittedly rare) social media updates from Cardboard Computer feel less like marketing materials and more like a slow
drip of found footage that has been unearthed.
It is unsurprising that Richards was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2014, when the penchant for film work
comprised of found footage was just past its peak, but whatever he produces when he represents Wales at the 2017 Venice Biennale, it will no doubt work well in the small and dedicated space of a pavilion.
Set to Kanye West's gospel - inspired hip - hop track, «Ultralight Beam», Jafa's work is a
convergence of found footage that traces African - American identity through a vast spectrum of contemporary imagery.
Programs are curated to reveal an aspect of Conner's practice including dance music set to film; the
incorporation of found footage; the female form and more.