Tag: Found Footage

They’re Watching (2016) – By Baron Craze

May 30, 2020
Archived Reviews

When someone reads that individuals associated with the TV Series Spongebob Squarepants  or The Angry Beavers and videos games such as The Sopranos or Call of Duty: Black Ops II making their horror film debut, they scratch their heads, however directing duo Jay Lender and Micah Wright do just that with a fresh take on the troublesome…

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Infliction (2014) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Archived Reviews

In 2011, two brothers documented their murder spree in North Carolina, this is the actual assembled footage is the premise of director and writer Jack Thomas Smith’s newest film, that some deem as a found footage film, others as a horror film, though I believe it is a moralistic psychological dramatic movie. Smith’s entire film…

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Play Hooky (2012) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Archived Reviews

Just mentioning the phrase “found footage” brings groans to many in the horror realm, especially the older generation of the genre however, the output seems for now a never-ending tidal wave of films, each with similar basis, well not the same, for first time director Frank S. Petrilli and his creation Play Hooky. Rather his…

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The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan Press Release

November 30, 2019
Horror NewsPress Releases

This December, The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan will be finally uncovered. Starring Anna Stromberg and directed by Burt Grinstead, the highly-anticipated found-footage spookfest fixing on the frightening contents of an unedited memory card, has been acquired for release by Artist Rights Distribution. A young journalism student decides to return to her hometown to investigate a brutal…

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Evidence (2012) – By Baron Craze

September 30, 2019
Archived Reviews

Budding filmmakers director Howie Askins and screenwriter and actor Ryan McCoy both in their first feature horror film bring a new powerful twist into the found-footage sub-genre, which increasing presents itself as difficult task, especially for those so new to the genre, yet they both admirably accomplish the task. Although one must inform the readers…

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Area 407 (2012) – By Baron Craze

September 30, 2019
Archived Reviews

First time feature directors Dale Fabrigar and Everette Wallin, present a found footage style horror and sci-fi film, though, they both have previous film credits, providing them with a solid foundation to create an interesting journey for viewers, involving a monstrous creature likely a T-Rex dinosaur. Once again the success of The Blair Witch Project…

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Willow Creek (2013) – By Baron Craze

August 31, 2019
Archived Reviews

Found Footage films seem to have earned a lasting impression on the horror genre, and the staying power always increasing mainly due to the fact of the cheapness for successful production, for wallets of budding filmmakers, however a strange element when a noted filmmaker, such as Bobcat Goldthwait enters into the subgenre with his version…

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The 16th Episode (2019) – By Baron Craze

June 30, 2019
Film Reviews

Jérôme Cohen-Olivar who wrote and directed this film that tries to mix together both the found footage and possession genres, but switches over to a narrative storytelling at the strangest times. It’s an ambitious project, but the limitations of budget wreaked havoc, and allowed for some plot holes, however that doesn’t mean discount the movie…

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Moth (2016) – By Baron Craze

May 31, 2019
Film Reviews

Moth is a Hungarian mystery-horror film that combines both the found footage genre and a narrative cinematography found in standard horror movies coming from screenwriter József Gallai (Echoes [2018]), who directed it alongside with Gergö Elekes (Bodom [2014]) releasing the movie through Wild Eye Releasing. It is uncommon for found footage films to incorporate the narrative…

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Altar (2016) – By Baron Craze

May 31, 2019
Archived Reviews

Matthew Sconce, director of Altar, presents a found footage, now before you roll your eyes and groan, this time he adds a twist, by including the mixture of the slasher genre complete with doomsayer similar to that in The Birds (1963) and of course, Crazy Ralph from Friday the 13th (1980). However, Sconce delivers a…

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