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Dreadxp Confirms Found Footage Horror Game ‘Amanda the Adventurer’ Release Date With New Trailer [Watch]

March 27, 2023 Mike Wilson Amanda the Adventurer, DreadXP, found footage, MANGLEDmaw Games, PC, steam, Video Games, Videos

Fresh from the demo showcase over the weekend at PAX East, DreadXP and developer MANGLEDmaw Games’ Amanda the Adventurer is now on the road to its April 25 release. To add the exclamation point, DreadXP has released a new release date trailer for the cartoon edutainment-themed horror title. Developed by MANGLEDmaw Games, Amanda the Adventurer […]

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Liminal Scares: How ‘House of Leaves’ Has Redefined Modern Horror

February 3, 2023 Luiz H. C. Backrooms, Books, Editorials, found footage, House Of Leaves, Liminal, Longform, Mark Z. Danielewski, Movies, Skinamarink, The Blair Witch Project

Pablo Picasso is often credited with having said that good artists borrow and great artists steal. Obviously, the Spanish painter wasn’t referring to plagiarism, but instead insinuating that ideas grow when they inspire other artists to make them their own. After all, all art is part of a larger cultural ouroboros – an ever-growing creature […]

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The True Crime Terror of ‘The Poughkeepsie Tapes’ 15 Years Later

January 12, 2023 Luiz H. C. Dowdle Brothers, Editorials, found footage, Movies, The Poughkeepsie Tapes

From Paranormal Activity to Grave Encounters, the most popular Found Footage movies tend to focus on supernatural horror. However, the sub-genre is capable of much more than that, with the believable thrills of the format becoming especially useful when telling stories about plausible terrors. After all, spooky media isn’t exclusive to fiction, with the True […]

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‘Landlocked’ Trailer – Found Footage Horror Turns Home Videos Into Lo-Fi Chiller

December 13, 2022 Meagan Navarro found footage, Landlocked, Movies

Coming January 6, 2023, is the feature directorial debut of Paul Owens, Landlocked, a creative new horror movie that incorporates actual footage in the form of childhood home movies. Landlocked‘s use of a family’s original home videos to create a fictional horror story results in unconventional found footage that combines documentary and narrative filmmaking. A brand new trailer below […]

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How Casper Kelly’s Experimental Yule Log Project Turned into Adult Swim’s First Horror Feature [Interview]

December 12, 2022 Daniel Kurland Adult Swim Yule Log, Casper Kelly, found footage, Holiday Horror, interview, Interviews, Movies, The Fireplace

Casper Kelly opens up on how his stealth holiday horror movie came together, its curious development, and the importance of keeping audiences surprised. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to genuinely surprise audiences during a digital age where entire scripts can leak before a movie even exits pre-production. Horror is a genre that thrives through the unknown […]

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Adult Swim’s Surprise Horror Movie “The Fireplace” Burns Bright as a Gonzo Experimental Holiday Classic [Review]

December 12, 2022 Daniel Kurland Adult Swim Yule Log, Casper Kelly, found footage, Holiday Horror, Movies, Reviews, The Fireplace

Adult Swim’s first feature-length horror film is the holiday gift that keeps on giving and a standout genre experiment. “It’s so hard to surprise people these days…Everybody’s seen everything.” It’s two minutes before Adult Swim’s holiday yule log presentation finally shows its hand, breaks free of its defining formula, and begins to first hint that […]

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‘Grave Encounters 2’ – Reevaluating the Horror Sequel 10 Years Later [The Silver Lining]

November 9, 2022 Luiz H. C. Editorials, found footage, Grave Encounters, John Poliquin, Longform, Movies, vicious brothers

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering John Poliquin’s underrated sequel, Grave Encounters 2. Maybe it’s the fear of madness, or perhaps it’s the uncomfortable history of how mental illness used to be treated, but there’s definitely something about psychiatric hospitals that makes them such a compelling location for scary stories. From […]

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‘The Pyramid’ – Egypt-Set Found Footage Horror Makes for a Fun Midnight Movie [The Silver Lining]

September 19, 2022 Luiz H. C. Alexandre Aja, Editorials, found footage, Longform, Movies, The Pyramid, The Silver Lining

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Grégory Levasseur’s Egyptology-based Found Footage flick, The Pyramid. Acclaimed director Alexandre Aja first rose to notoriety as a member of the early 2000s French Extremity movement after shocking audiences with the intensely gory Haute Tension (A.K.A. High Tension/Switchblade Romance). While this peculiar little slasher flick […]

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The Evolution of Found Footage: A History of Screenlife Horror

August 22, 2022 Luiz H. C. Dashcam, Editorials, found footage, Host, Longform, Movies, Screenlife, Searching, The Collingswood Story, Unfriended

Epistolary storytelling has been immersing readers in fiction since the very dawn of literature. Using simulated letters, diaries and other documents to craft complex tales with shifting points of view, the format inevitably ended up attracting inventive filmmakers who realized that it could be adapted into a cinematic tool to instill terror. From The McPherson […]

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Six of the Best Foreign-Language Found Footage Movies

August 4, 2022 Luiz H. C. Editorials, foreign, found footage, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, J-horror, Koji Shiraishi, Man Bites Dog, Movies, Occult, Paranormal Activity, trollhunter

There was a time when it was more likely for a successful foreign film to be remade in English than see a proper release in America. From the decade-long ban on Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale to the Lovecraftian Valdemar Legacy films never getting an official Region 1 release, being a fan of overseas genre thrills […]

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‘The Den’ Director Zachary Donohue on New Audio Thriller “Uncomfortably Numb” and ‘The Den’ Sequel [Interview]

July 28, 2022 Ari Drew audio series, found footage, Interviews, news, Pocket FM, screen life, The Den, The Den 2, The Unknowable, Uncomfortably Numb, Zachary Donohue

For found footage horror fans, Zachary Donohue’s 2013 feature debut The Den is often regarded as one of the scariest films in the subgenre and a pioneer of the screen life storytelling format. Using various computer- and app-based interactions to follow a graduate student being targeted by a vicious killer after witnessing a murder online, […]

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The Dysmorphia of Being Online in ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

May 9, 2022 Joe Lipsett Anna Cobb, found footage, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Jane Schoenbrun, LGBT, LGBT Horror, lgbtq, LGBTQ Horror, Mary Beth McAndrews, Michael J Rogers, Podcasts, screen horror, We're All Going To The World's Fair

Baby Catfish April is firmly in the rearview, though Trace and I are still basking in the great conversations we had about Mexican sci-fi film The Untamed, 80s live-action/animation technical marvel Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and our pair of vampire films: Swedish teen coming of age ‘Let The Right One In and Western/Horror hybrid Near Dark. Now […]

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Where the ‘Blair Witch Project’ Franchise Could Go Next

April 25, 2022 Luiz H. C. Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows, Daniel Myrick, Editorials, Eduardo Sanchez, found footage, Longform, Movies, The Blair Witch Project

There’s no overstating the cultural impact of The Blair Witch Project. It wasn’t just one of the most profitable movies ever made (grossing nearly $250 million on a production budget of $35,000), but it was also a storytelling landmark that signaled a shift in how audiences interact with media. That’s why it’s no surprise that […]

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‘The Found Footage Phenomenon’ – Shudder Original Documentary Coming in May! [Trailer]

April 13, 2022 John Squires found footage, Movies, Shudder, The Found Footage Phenomenon, Videos

A brand new Shudder original documentary, The Found Footage Phenomenon has been announced with a trailer today, and it’s set to begin streaming on May 19, 2022! Shudder previews, “The documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed with technological changes throughout the last few decades. The Found Footage Phenomenon […]

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‘The Fourth Kind’ Blended Fiction and Reality for a Unique Experiment [The Silver Lining]

April 7, 2022 Luiz H. C. Alien Abduction, Editorials, found footage, Milla Jovovich, Mockumentary, Movies, Olatunde Osunsanmi, The Silver Lining

In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be covering Universal’s underappreciated alien horror movie, The Fourth Kind. While I usually take eye-witness accounts with a sizable grain of salt, I’ve always been obsessed with ufology and extraterrestrial conspiracies. Not only are these tales of mysterious lights and unexplained disappearances entertaining on their own, but […]

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