The extreme found footage film Making Off (France – 2012) by Cédric Dupuis and the experimental extreme film Ana (Canada – 2015) directed by Frédérick Maheux are available to order now on the official websites TetroVideo and Goredrome. Making Off comes in a Standard Blu-ray edition and in an Ultralimited edition numbered Mediabook +…
Browsing: Found Footage
THE UNWELCOME *** UK 2010 Dir: Keith R. Robinson. 81 mins I am not a fan of the ‘found footage’ genre or many of the Paranormal investigative films that spring up usually when one gets the notion to make a repeat of the success of the original The Blair Witch…
ROOM 441 * USA 2020 Dir: Tyler King. 84 mins Bookended (predictably) by a ‘what you are about to see…’ style title card and anticlimactic scenes of an imperilled protagonist yelling “fuck!”, this tedious found footage chiller should be filed under “not even trying”. Impressively, it makes us immediately hate…
M.O.M. MOTHERS OF MONSTERS ** USA 2020 Dir: Tucia Lyman. 98 mins Following straight forward thrillers like SEARCHING and supernatural horrors in the vein of the UNFRIENDED movies, this serious attempt at dramatizing America’s culture of youth gun violence unfolds via a laptop screen. Haunted by violent acts within her…
THE LAST FIVE DAYS * USA 2020 Dir: Clay Moffatt. 70 mins Framed by an unconvincing press conference about the mysterious deaths of two students (“Wasn’t there a tape found in the camera?”), this found footage movie is largely a two hander starring co-writers Clay Moffatt and Joe Pacini, with…