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Originally Posted by Justin101  There is a documentary about found footage films just released on Shudder. Don’t bother watching it, it’s tedious and badly edited with loud music over every interview. Not sure if I was the right audience to begin with also having little patience with the genre as a whole. |
As with all horror genres or indeed movie genres there are some excellent examples of found footage films. However they are greatly outweighed by dross.
The example mentioned above -
Jeruzalem - i really enjoyed as it had a scale to it, not to mention a budget and the fact it was filmed on the streets of Jerusalem brought something else to a genre that normally takes place in confined or seemingly confined spaces.
One i particularly recommend is a British found footage film called
The Borderlands. It's not about the supernatural or Bigfoot. Rather it's core is in Folk horror and Pagan rites and beliefs. Plus there's great characterisation which always helps.
Barry Levinson's
The Bay is also excellent.