Paul A. Brooks twists and turns a typical found footage witch hunt in Hunting for the Hag, but gets lost in the process. People going into the woods to find confirmation of a local folklore legend is essentially the backbone of the found footage genre, and you can tell just how aware Brooks is of …
The discovery of mysterious recordings that hold a malevolent sentience destroys lives in multiple time periods in Justin Janowitz’s layered found footage movie Do No Watch. The narrative ambition for this found footage movie is admirable. It’s essentially three sets of found footage in one, each from a different timeline, but all infected with some …
Kansas Bowling’s Cuddly Toys takes an offbeat, surreal, and often disturbing look at the secret lives of teenage girls that coats its subject matter with a little sugar and a lot of salt. Presented by Bowling herself (that’s Professor Kansas Bowling to you), this documentary-style movie blends fictional vignettes with supposedly real interviews. I say …
Michelle Iannantuono bottles the drama and parasocial nightmares of content creation in Livescreamers; a modern spin on the ”If you die in the game, you die for real” horror format. Sometimes, it’s a little too pure in its representation. The opening 20 minutes of Livescreamers is somewhat cringe-inducing as it ticks every possible video game …
In Flesh Games, a group of wannabe extreme stuntmen reunite to take another shot at stardom, but not everyone is in it for the right reasons. If you were a certain age when Jackass first became a cultural phenomenon, there’s a small chance you tried making your own comedy stunt show with your friends, especially …
The final wave of films for the Unnamed Footage Festival 7 adds a special version of the Outwaters, and the full schedule is revealed. The festival celebrates all things found footage, and will be showing a selection of fresh films in the sub-genre alongside retrospective screenings of iconic films within it. Last year’s divisive The …