Effective found footage storytelling requires a delicate balance of narrative structure and chaotic realism. After all, if you make your movie too realistic, it’ll likely be about as entertaining as keeping up with a nanny cam. On the other hand, if you try to inject the story with too many of the usual tropes and […]
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With a film like Dooba Dooba, it would be easy to sit back and let the film’s gimmick do a lot of the heavy lifting. Written and directed by Ehrland Hollingsworth, this 2025 festival darling works hard to capture a certain analog horror aesthetic, with static cameras, a single location, and grainy footage. From a […]
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Dark Sky Films has released the unsettling trailer for Dooba Dooba, shot entirely on in-home security cameras and rooted in the analog horror aesthetic popularized by YouTube creators. Could it be the next found footage breakout? Find out when the film hits select theaters and Digital on January 23. Nearly a decade after her brother’s […]
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The official poster for Dooba Dooba channels the analog horror aesthetic previewed in last month’s eerie teaser trailer. Shot entirely on in-home security cameras, the found footage horror film opens in select theaters and on Digital January 23 via Dark Sky Films. Nearly a decade after her brother’s murder, 16-year-old Monroe still needs a babysitter. […]
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The end of 2025 is nigh. To close out the first quarter of this century, the Halloweenies hit the archives and revisit all the horror movies released between 2000 to 2025. After careful consideration, the gang has made their lists, checked them twice, and given them to Santa Gerber to collate them all into a […]
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“Are all monsters a hoax, or is it possible that the monsters that haunt the 21st century hide in plain sight?” Found footage and mockumentary horror films remain wildly polarizing and they’re subgenres where only the most successful or maligned releases seem to get any attention. For some horror audiences, there’s just too much of […]
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With Shelby Oaks, writer/director Chris Stuckmann made the leap from YouTube to theatrical film. But his feature directorial debut, which is now playing in theaters, doesn’t look the same as it did when it played the festival circuit in 2024. Shelby Oaks follows Mia (Camille Sullivan), a woman who has been obsessively searching for her […]
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Tinsman Road is a grueling emotional gut punch that explores grief, guilt, and the great unknown, but poor pacing and a lack of conflict leave it lost without a compass. “You wanted to do this.” “Yeah, because I believe.” The found footage genre, when properly embraced, can truly be magical. It has the ability to […]
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Horror is a genre that thrives upon disruption and going against the grain. That being said, there’s a curious quality where fringe fascinations can progressively become mainstream, and what was once subversive is now the new normal. There was a time when a slasher film like Halloween was anarchic and groundbreaking, only for it to […]
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WOMBEX Games is dipping their toe into found footage Survival Horror gaming with their recently-announced title, Kryva Hora. Slated for a 2025 release on Steam, the game is set against the backdrop of the Chornobyl Disaster, but in a twist, has more than just the usual mutant horrors to deal with in your playthrough. The […]
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The Legend of Boggy Creek. Cannibal Holocaust. Man Bites Dog. These are the usual suspects whenever someone brings up the origins of modern-day found footage. However, it was a long road full of cinematic experiments before these films would give rise to the movie that popularized the genre – The Blair Witch Project. After all, […]
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I’ve always found it curious how the Found Footage genre’s greatest weakness is also its greatest strength, with the same realistic formatting that allows for deeply immersive thrills also being responsible for the massive sea of low-effort cash-grabs that gives POV filmmaking a bad name. That’s why it’s so hard for Found Footage flicks to […]
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I’ve always found it strange how Found Footage appears more frequently in film than in television. If you think about it, most of the recovered footage that we see in real life comes from True Crime TV and investigative journalism rather than movies – or at least it used to before the internet turned the […]
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If the commercial and critical success of horror films from Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, and David Gordon Green in recent years illustrates anything, it’s that folks in the comedy biz can often serve up major doses of effective white-knuckle chills. With the buzz following the recently released trailer for “Saturday Night Live” alum Kyle Mooney’s […]
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The very same faith that can drive humanity to build majestic works of art and band together to help those in need is also responsible for some of the most horrific events in our species’ history. This is something that genre filmmaker Ti West seems to understand very well, with many of his projects at […]
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