the BEST found footage movie?
better than blair witch, paranormal activity
I think so, at least.
i would say yes, Number 1 for me
though i give huge credits to Blairwitch and Paranormal Activity for popularizing the subgenre
in fact now im always watching pretty much every found footage movie that i find, looking for the next REC-like experience of realism
Closest i've come is "Grave Encounters" and "Megan is Missing"
my favorites are Rec, Blair Witch, & Chronicle (although not technically "found" footage).
Rec scared me really good and had me thinking about zombies for days but the ultimate is BW because i couldn't sleep normally for a whole week! That movie messed me up good.
that's the sign of a great film, when it screws you up for days "Megan is Missing" did it for me, highly recommended
And chronicle is a found footage superhero movie , but still found footage i would say :)
yea agreed on the signs of great films point!
However the only reason i say chronicle is not a found footage movie is because let's say unlike REC or BW where they use only a single camera, Chronicle uses multi cameras. Like when he's in the hospital, it changes to the CCTV cam view. Or in the end fight, when they are hovering in the air and those people are in the building (was it elevator? it's been a while), the cam switches over to the cameras on the cellphone of the people in the elevator. A true found footage film uses a single camera where the film is found. I believe Chronicle is a non-found footage film shot in a "user cam" style by the director. Of course this is simply all my opinion of course.
yeah i get your point, i think that in chronicle they were trying to innovate a bit, but still carrying the idea that "this is footage filmed casually by people in the situation, not staged"
but chronicle pushes the idea a bit too far at moments, like when the bad guy levitates a dozen ipads and iphones around him to have more camera angles on the siuation, that was a bit far fetched i though
in REC 2 there was a good idea, swat team with cameras mounted on guns, good!
Megan is missing has most of his footage via webcam chats, via PC or smartphones, which is a bit pushy too cause they are all recorded into the phones themselves, still i give it a pass for having a truly horrifying ending, (really, its not "fun with zombies" horror, its more like "vile, cruel, i cant believe they put this on film" horror territory"
i remember in V/H/S one of the stories involved a guy using spy glasses, those thick glasses that hide a camera in the middle, so its even more of a found footage film, looks like a first person shooter game
Dude, "Megan is Missing", omfg. Two of my (adult, male, seen tons of horror flicks, don't-scare-easily types) watched this and told me neither of them had slept well for weeks, that it was just SO terrifying. So I watched it with friends and we were petrified to the point of literally all sleeping in the same room afterward (to be fair, we were living in an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, so it was seriously creepy).
However, other people I know who are younger, not big horror movie fans, etc. saw it and responded with "uh, what was scary about that?". It really depends on what scares you, I guess - some see it as one of the scariest movies ever, and some don't even see it as scary.
I thought it was scary as s#!t :)