Poll: What is your opinion on Found Footage style films?

[scouse mac]

The last found footage I really enjoyed was Troll Hunter.

I've always quite liked the genre but its originality has been drowned out by a long line of below average films.

[Jake.Ashworth]

Originally Posted by MichaelMyers

I found Unfriended to be pretty good, not revolutionizing horror by any means, but pretty good; do you think it truly counts as a found footage however?

Exactly, its kind of a to each their own sort of thing. Lol. I was into the movie, I was really enjoying it at first. Then... The ending literally ruined the entire movie for me. I need a good wrap up, and solid ending. Not just a chick with make up on jumping at the screen. I turned it off, effectively forgot anything good about it and walked away thinking "what a terrible ending".

On if its "found footage" I think technically it is. But its hard to say, I mean "live found footage" maybe? I don't know.

[horcrux2007]

I like found footage movies. They seem to have a more chaotic nature than most other horror movies.

[Fake Shemp]

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[ImmortalSlasher]

Maybe these movies shouldn't be called "found footage" as if they really were, there would be police or someone finding out what happened. And not just we found this and are selling it to people. Found footage is basically the new based off a true story. But most know those stories aren't that true most of the time.

I think that movie in Paris was a found footage one. I like that one. With the girl like Lara Croft going underground in the tombs. It was called Upside Down or something.

As I mentioned in one found footage review that I can't remember, sometimes they break the found footage to film the movie. So if you are paying attention, you ask yourself, where is the cameraman or didn't the cameraman die and how is this still being filmed?

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by horcrux2007

They seem to have a more chaotic nature than most other horror movies.

Exactly. When it's just used an effective shot technique, it works.

When they stick to Found Footage like it's a law -- people picking up a camera when it's the last thing a sane person would do -- it's so jolting and pathetic. The story has to trump it.

There's films where it works for the story/script, and others it doesn't.

I think it worked really well for Cloverfield, The Blair Witch Project, Chronicles and VHS, but most of the other films were just ridiculous.

But they are very cheap to make, so I see plenty coming yet.