"Found" footage style movies...

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UPDATED - 1st July 2012: Just woke up and remembered this movie which definitely belongs in this thread, quite disturbing and sickened me in some parts, rarely a horror movie can do that.


UPDATE - 29th June 2012: Totally forgot about this thread, however a mate at work showed me a trailer for V/H/S last night and looks as though it could be one of the best movies of this type for a long time, i'm now aching to watch it. I've added a youtube link below. Also a few links to a few other releases.


Chronicle...one of the best movies of the year!


Chernobyl Diaries


The Devil Inside


Area 407


Evidence


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Can anyone recommend any decent "found" footage style movies that I haven't watched. I recently pooped myself whilst watching an advanced copy of Grave Encounters, one of the perks of my job. I loved Paranormal Activity 1, thought 2 was rubbish. Blair Witch is an absolute classic, complete marmite movie though.

I know most of them are cheesy as they come and they never have a happy ending but I can't get enough of them :D

Here is a quick run down of what I know about and have seen, from most well known to probably least...

Blair Witch Project


The Last Broadcast...some say directly influenced BWP


Paranormal Activity


Paranormal Activity 2


The Tunnel...highly recommended!!!


Rec...absolutely brilliant!


Rec 2, as good as the first movie


Grave Encounters


Cloverfield


The Last Exorcism


Welcome To The Jungle


Diary Of The Dead


The Poughkeepsie Tapes


Atrocious


Apollo 18


The Tapes


Rec: Genesis


Paranormal Activity 3


The Troll Hunter


Evil Things


Lake Mungo


8213: Gacy House


The Last Horror Movie


Home Movie


The Zombie Diaries


World of the Dead: Zombie Diaries 2


Death Of A Ghost Hunter


Meadowoods


Unaware


Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes


So let me know anything i've missed, feed my cheesy horror addiction!
 
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I recently went through a spell of watching 'tape' or paranormal type movies too, another i watched isnt really an 'found footage' film but used recordings throughout, 'The Fourth Kind', i wasnt expecting much but i really enjoyed it.
 
There's also The Poughkeepsie Tapes, though that's more of a documentary style like The Tunnel. Lake Mungo is also in the same vein, but I found it incredibly boring.

8213: Gacy House is laughable -- quite literally when it comes to Gacy's ghost giving a member of the cast the biggest super-wedgie you've ever seen in the final minutes, and anally raping the final cast member to death (offscreen).

The Collingswood Story is pretty decent for a no-budget indie flick. Interesting plot and novel by having almost all of the film shot via webcam.

The less said about August Underground's Mordum, the better.

The Last Horror Movie is one I enjoyed quite a bit, with a nice twist that unfortunately failed completely in the DVD era but still, it's damned good stuff.

There's also Home Movie, which is well worth checking out and has one seriously shocking scene that made me yell out "What the ****!!!".

Paranormal Entity is an utter, utter pile of drivel. Just no.

The Last Exorcism I wasn't too sure about when I first saw it. Thinking back, I appreciate it a bit more in retrospect. Worth a try.

Really looking forward to seeing Apollo 18, Grave Encounters, Evil Things (is that out yet? I missed it at Frightfest a couple of years ago) and Atrocious (which I'll hopefully make time for at Frightfest next week!).

SixTwoSix - was the Grave Encounters copy you watched a press copy? I haven't seen any info in my mailbox about it and would literally bite your hand off for a screener if they're going out already. I write for one of the biggest horror websites on the net so if the PR machine is indeed chugging away for it do you mind hitting me up via Trust? Always good to make contacts, anyway! :D
 
Pestilence said:
Lake Mungo is also in the same vein, but I found it incredibly boring.

8213: Gacy House is laughable -- quite literally when it comes to Gacy's ghost giving a member of the cast the biggest super-wedgie you've ever seen in the final minutes, and anally raping the final cast member to death (offscreen).

The Collingswood Story is pretty decent for a no-budget indie flick. Interesting plot and novel by having almost all of the film shot via webcam.

The less said about August Underground's Mordum, the better.

The Last Horror Movie is one I enjoyed quite a bit, with a nice twist that unfortunately failed completely in the DVD era but still, it's damned good stuff.

There's also Home Movie, which is well worth checking out and has one seriously shocking scene that made me yell out "What the ****!!!".

Paranormal Entity is an utter, utter pile of drivel. Just no.

The Last Exorcism I wasn't too sure about when I first saw it. Thinking back, I appreciate it a bit more in retrospect. Worth a try.
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Some nice recommendations there, will be checking a few of them out and also ensuring I avoid a few. I enjoyed The Last Exorcism, will add it to the OP.

SixTwoSix - was the Grave Encounters copy you watched a press copy? I haven't seen any info in my mailbox about it and would literally bite your hand off for a screener if they're going out already. I write for one of the biggest horror websites on the net so if the PR machine is indeed chugging away for it do you mind hitting me up via Trust? Always good to make contacts, anyway! :
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By rights I shouldn't have had a copy, a friend up in the client services bit knows my love of horror and she sorted it out for me, i'm fairly sure if we've had a copy floating around it won't be long until you get one.

Same thing happened with Insidious, we had a lovely blu-ray quality copy months before it came out, got to watch that way in advance as well.

Which website is it you write for Pestilence, i'm sure you posted before but I don't remember. My mainstay site for horror was always Bloody Disgusting but it's turned into a blatant ad-fest and what I consider to be a lot of biased/paid reviews in the last 12 months or so.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Some nice recommendations there, will be checking a few of them out and also ensuring I avoid a few. I enjoyed The Last Exorcism, will add it to the OP.

By rights I shouldn't have had a copy, a friend up in the client services bit knows my love of horror and she sorted it out for me, i'm fairly sure if we've had a copy floating around it won't be long until you get one.

Same thing happened with Insidious, we had a lovely blu-ray quality copy months before it came out, got to watch that way in advance as well.

Which website is it you write for Pestilence, i'm sure you posted before but I don't remember. My mainstay site for horror was always Bloody Disgusting but it's turned into a blatant ad-fest and what I consider to be a lot of biased/paid reviews in the last 12 months or so.
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I'm the UK bod for Dread Central. Can't speak for BD as I only occasionally pop over there, but you'll never EVER find any of my reviews influenced by PR freebies or promises. As with any large site we have our detractors and people claiming all sorts of corruption but whatever. People have different opinions, and I like the fact that if the staff over on DC seriously disagree about something, we'll run conflicting reviews to give those opinions so the readers know which one to go on if they've already decided which of us they would generally agree with. :)
 
Also just remembered Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape. Of course the classic Cannibal Holocaust should really on there, and what is regarded as a pseudo-remake, Jonathan Hensleigh's Welcome to the Jungle.

There's also Diary of the Dead, The Zombie Diaries, and World of the Dead: Zombie Diaries 2.


Death of a Ghost Hunter is naff, and there's also a recent one named Meadowoods that I haven't seen but have heard it's pretty awful.

Coming up, there's Unaware, Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, Paranormal Activity 3, [REC]:Genesis and [REC]:Apocalypse -- can't ******* WAIT for those last two!
 
Pestilence said:
Also just remembered Alien Abduction: The McPherson Tape. Of course the classic Cannibal Holocaust should really on there, and what is regarded as a pseudo-remake, Jonathan Hensleigh's Welcome to the Jungle.

There's also Diary of the Dead, The Zombie Diaries, and World of the Dead: Zombie Diaries 2.


Death of a Ghost Hunter is naff, and there's also a recent one named Meadowoods that I haven't seen but have heard it's pretty awful.

Coming up, there's Unaware, Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes, Paranormal Activity 3, [REC]:Genesis and [REC]:Apocalypse -- can't ******* WAIT for those last two!
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Wow...so many to choose from, have added trailers for most of the stuff suggested so far in this thread apart from obviously bad stuff.

This is turning into something of an addiction, I intend to try and watch every film in this thread before the end of the year!
 
Noones mentioned Cannibal Holocaust? Wasn't it one of the pioneers of this kind of film?

Edit: One mention I missed but still its not up there! :P
 
I thought The Fourth Kind was worth a watch, if only to ogle Milla Jovovich!

Might be worth checking out Marble Hornets on Youtube too. It's pretty low budget but some good scares in there. Best enjoyed with headphones on I think.
 
R.E The Tunnel, why would you recommend that?. Jesus. I'm supposed to want the main characters to survive... Not in this instance.. I couldn't rate this movie low enough.
 
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R.E The Tunnel, why would you recommend that?. Jesus. I'm supposed to want the main characters to survive... Not in this instance.. I couldn't rate this movie low enough.
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Really? I thought the scares were well orchestrated, and that sequence in the dark with the security guard and the thing behind him... Jesus. :eek:
 
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Really? I thought the scares were well orchestrated, and that sequence in the dark with the security guard and the thing behind him... Jesus. :eek:
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I think there were 2 scares (to avoid spoilers I'll simply say; the guard and the hole), together they lasted maybe 2 seconds?. That's really stretching a 90 minute film out, in my eyes anyway.
 
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