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Lake Mungo and The Tunnel make a great double-feature. Both Australian found footage horror involving talking head style interviews, though Lake Mungo is a much slower burn.Choco1980 posted:On the topic of non horror ff, how is End of Watch, the one that's a cop drama? I remember hearing mixed reviews. I really wish FF would branch out to more genres like that though; I think End of Watch would've been better had the cameras been actually in the scenes, like the whole thing filmed via police body cams. But I'd love to see someone bring a camera into a magic fantasy world, or into space. I actually have a sci-fi script I'm trying to get produced where a bunch of hikers get taken by an alien ship, and the only reason anyone knows what happened to them is because their footage falls from space. Once I get paid for another script that's being developed, I might finance it myself because it's relatively low budget.
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I feel like laptop/webcam horror is almost a different subgenre, though I guess there's little difference from a webcam aside from being relatively stationary. I still don't think I've seen it done effectively for the duration of an 80+ minute film. The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger was V/H/S's weakest segment but still had a pretty good buildup of tension. My problems with The Den are mainly characters being stupid (don't use your laptop that you know is hacked to go looking for answers about your hacker), and its silly "gently caress you for enjoying horror" ending that takes the narrative out of found footage. Otherwise the content itself is pretty solid. I have similar problems with Unfriended; although the "I Never" scene is pretty well done, the characters are idiots for not just saying "let's just get offline and talk tomorrow guys" and its goofy attack-the-camera jumpscare ending. Also I just can't find Haunted Facebook scary. Choco1980 posted:Also, unrelated, but several people have been recommending the Grave Encounters films. Just a heads up, if you go into part 2 expecting a sincere, straightforward horror film, you're gonna have a bad time. It's a very deadpan satire of the whole sub-genre that gets pretty ridiculous at times. I've shot at Riverview before, it's a legit abandoned mental hospital and it's creepy as hell there. I sat by myself in a dark boiler room recording ambient sound for several minutes with a boom mic and a pair of headphones, so every sound was amplified. 
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:I also really dig The Poughkeepsie Tapes because it scratches my trash itch like no other. It's a totally lovely movie though, I just like it.
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