Also ranks #57 on The 65+ Best Found Footage Movies Also ranks #77 on The 100+ Best Religious Horror Movies, Ranked Also ranks #187 on The 100+ Best New & Recent Horror Movies, Ranked Photo: user uploaded image 27 344 votes The Unborn Child The Unborn Child (2011) is a Thai horror...
Log into Prime Video and you’ll find a sea of found footage horror movies. That makes it easy to overlook gems like Gonjiam. The titular asylum is based on a real psychiatric hospital, and that hint of realism really helps drive the thrills. Gonjiam follows a film crew looking to turn ...
This article offers a brief historical and theoretical overview of found footage films and their contribution to the horror genre, and focuses in more detail on four Southeast Asian productions of the kind made between 2009-2012: Keramat/Sacred (Servia & Tiwa, 2009), Seru/Resurrection (Asraff,...
Eerie, artistic, and rich with symbolism, Marebito is unlike any other horror film. The film dives deeply into the alienation caused by modern communication technology. The cinematography combines the found footage approach with an overall traditional filming to undermine the audience's perception of...
The Ritual (DVD) – in this 2010 ‘found footage’-style horror film, a fugitive serial killer grooms a young hustler to be his successor The Museum of Wonders (DVD) – a brutal revenge plot unfolds when a circus dwarf realizes his wife has only married him to steal his money in this...
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Japanese director Koji Shiraishi had, for a long time, carved out a niche for himself as the guy who makes grimy found-footage/docu-horror flicks. The likes of 2005’sNoroi: The Curse, 2009’sOccult, and 2011’sCho Akunin, all feature some kind of first person perspective revolving around...
The single shot took a total of 2 days to complete over 6 takes (apparently the cast nailed it on the 2nd take, but technical difficulties with the camera resulted in the footage being unusable), and it’s an admirable effort. Of course I’m sure fellow Japanese director Koji Shiraishi ...
While I do like the fact that the monster in the film doesn’t look out of place in spite of being cg, The Host suffers from its secondary anti-American plot, since it confuses the viewer over whether they’re watching a horror flick or a political thriller. Plus the arc may not sit...
possession of a mysterious, obsessive white man who sought to steal dreams from people. Splitting time between Tan revisiting her teenage cinematic instincts and a bizarre character portrait of her late benefactor, Georges Cardona, this found-footage documentary feels like the re-righting of history....