I've created a list of the ten best movies from the "found footage" sub-genre, and I've created a podcast episode over at the Shaun Talks Movies website discussing it. Check it out at the link below:
http://www.shauntalksmovies.com/episodes/2015/4/16/shauns-top-10-found-footage-films-1
What are some of your favorite movies from the found footage genre?
Holy *beep* There are 10 movies like that crap? They really need to "invent" a new "genre" to make the fanboys squeal because this is getting old and it was already old after Blair Witch.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
It's just like any other genre. There are good found footage movies, bad ones, and everything in between. The genre was around before Blair Witch but it popularized it.
Great:
Cloverfield
Chronicle
Project Almanac, didn't do well but I don't care. It was a fun movie.
Good:
Blair Witch
Quarantine
V/H/S
Mediocre:
Paranormal series
Earth to Echo
Alien Abduction
Bad:
Project X. I loathe this movie.
Loved Project Almanac. Chronicle is way over rated.
shareThe original spanish version of quarantine would be under the great category
shareI've heard good things about it but haven't seen it.
I'll probably check it out sometime but I mainly just watch horror movies around Halloween.
Yes, [REC] as it was called in the original is a classic. The sequel not bad either. The third one? Nonsense. The fourth and last made a noble attempt to get ack to the feel of the first two but it was too late.
shareThere was a fourth?!?! Genesis was so awful I'm shocked they were able to make another one.
share10 you ask? More like about 200+! Most are complete POS that use the format because they could not afford a real shoot. Some transcend their limitations but rarely ever get to the level of a "Cloverfield" or a "[REC]".
shareMy favorites are REC 1 and 2, Cloverfield, Dyatlov Pass, The Bay, Europa Report and Unfriended.
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I really enjoyed As above, so below, it was really creppy. Also Cloverfield of course, The Conspiracy(this one genuinely scared me), Quarantine, Rec 1 and 2, VHS 1 and 2, The Last Exorcism, Undocumented, The Possession of Michael King, Home Movie, The Fourth Kind, Chronicle, Afflicted, Evidence (2012), The Tunnel, Noroi, Devil's Pass.