Sometimes an audience doesn’t get the memo that a work of fiction is just that. Take Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds (1938), notorious for the panic it caused immediately after its broadcast. It’s obviously fiction now, but that wasn’t so clear to the people who heard the radio drama and flew into a panic. The program presented itself as a news broadcast, often with bulletins that interrupted ...
Remakes will never stop being a lucrative trend in horror. Even if the output might not reach the insane heights it did during the 2000s, stories have been being told and retold on the screen since the birth of cinema. Not every remake is successful, of course. Some are bland rehashes of the source material. Others try to go in a different direction but lose sight of what made the original great. ...
The leaves are turning color, the air is starting to chill, and October is almost upon us. That's right, Halloween 2017 is fast approaching! What better way to spend the Halloween season than to watch spooky horror movies? Found footage is arguably the scariest horror movie subgenre. The first person POV and stark realism of found footage films place unsuspecting fans in the direct path of what...
The global popularity of found footage horror movies is largely due to the gritty realism offered by the genre. What is scarier than being lulled into believing, even if just for a second, that the film you are watching is real? Our team of found footage experts set out to find the ten creepiest found footage horror movies that were made into movie franchises! You heard us right, ten found footage...
The vast majority of humans live their lives above ground, going about the humdrum of daily life upon the surface of the Earth. We drive the roads, walk the paths, and sleep in our homes, all the while blissfully ignorant of the subterranean horrors that may lurk beneath us. In this edition of Found Footage Movies You Can Watch Now, we explore three films that prove the acuity of our surface-dwell...
There’s an old adage that nothing binds people together more than family. However, there are some families that are worth steering clear of, which brings us to the catchphrase, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.” The next time you’re approached by an overly-friendly, soft-spoken man or woman adorned in a robe who shuns technology and invites you to their remote commune for di...
Now that 2017 is upon us, we have growing lineup of new found footage films to look forward to this year. We meticulously reviewed all of the found footage movies due out in 2017 and selected our top 5 most anticipated found footage films for 2017. With so many films to choose from, narrowing our list to five titles wasn’t easy. The found footage movies mentioned in this article are in vario...
With 2016 coming to a close it’s time to take a look at the best-of-the-best new found footage movies of the year. We have had the privilege of cataloging well over fifty new found footage films during 2016 and choosing our top selections was not an easy task. Following a tedious review of this year’s films, we selected our top-5 favorite new found footage movies for 2016. Some of thes...