Two Things Horror Fans Hate: 3-D and Found Footage

Austin director Steven DeGennaro on his horror comedy Found Footage 3D

"...Which do horror fans hate more, 3-D or found footage? Combining them sounds like double poison, but Steven..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: Found Footage 3D

Horror-comedy offering Texas Chain Saw rarity among incentives

"...That's why so many filmmakers turn to crowdfunding. But Found Footage 3D may have an ace up its sleeve:..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Found Footage Phenomenon

New documentary unspools the reels of fake-real films

"...‘em or hate ‘em, the twisted roots of cinema’s found footage genre were already snaking their way into popular..."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Found Footage Festival Comes to Austin

Traveling showcase of video hilarity screens at the North Door

"...Some things are better found. Videotapes, for instance. Rather than when it's part of..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Production: Found Footage 3D Wraps

Genre-buster is the latest in a long line of Texas gore movies

"...penultimate night of shooting on the indie horror film Found Footage 3D. To the north, the late June lightning..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Lost World, Found Footage

AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner

"...materials, pieces of furniture, photographs, women's nylons, and other found objects), Conner created a new approach to the art..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Found Footage Festival finds its way back to Austin

Dig public access, training tutorials, and Eighties' workout videos?

"...Austinite Ben Steinbauer's Winnebago Man will recognize hosts (and founders) of the traveling Found Footage Festival Joe Pickett and..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Lost and Found

Found Footage Festival helps you find your way

"...the stuff that (gasp) hasn't made it online yet? Found Footage Festival to the rescue...."

May 8, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

DVDanger: The Atticus Institute

Or, in defense of found footage and mockumentaries

"...contrast, this decade has become a quagmire of supernatural found footage horrors set in mental institutions. Most of them..."

Jan. 24, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sinister 2

Round 2 for this supernatural horror franchise

"...lump Sinister 2 together with the modern spook movie “found footage” genre insomuch as the filmmakers happily employ good..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Phoenix Forgotten

Missing teens and mysterious lights in this found-footage sci-fi film

"...to believe. Specifically, I want to believe that the found-footage horror genre is coming to an end. Also, discovering..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Living Among Us

Bloodless vampire found footage should stay in the shadows

"...Todhunter and Jordan Hinson. Contrary to the lazy trope, found footage horror is not dead. While it’s the perfect..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Gallows

Another found-footage horror film that's best left unfound

"...Consider the found-footage horror film. Scoffed at by some as a cheap..."

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Exists

This found-footage horror film shot in Austin finds a Bigfoot chased from its home by the Bastrop fires.

"...of that tectonic magnitude ever since, even as the found-footage genre that he practically created from scratch has proved..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Long Trip up the 'Dark Mountain'

Writer/director Tara Anaïse brings her wilderness horror to Austin

"...two terrible fears to combine, it's claustrophobia and agoraphobia. Found footage horror Dark Mountain blends both, as a hapless..."

July 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Outwaters' Experiment in Terror

Writer/director/star Robbie Banfitch draws inspiration from found footage and arthouse forebears

"...Robbie Banfitch's polarizing new film, seems like your typical found footage horror experience. The movie is presented as the..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Alejandra Martinez

Homegrown Horror

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett on 'V/H/S/2'

"...In a found footage horror movie, the audience is either the hunted..."

July 26, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

In this final film in the series, found footage causes more trouble

"...immersing myself in horror and genre films, but the found-footage series never managed to make me gnaw my nails..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Visit

M. Night Shyamalan blends comedy and horror in his latest offering

"...Refreshingly, this isn’t so much a found-footage movie – although it was backed by Paranormal Activity..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Devil's Due

She's having an unholy baby - but isn't that every pregnant woman's fear? The only new ingredient in this horror setup is the found-footage element.

"...Silence”) helmed a solidly scary segment of the 2012 found-footage anthology film V/H/S, and they return to a similar..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: 'Exists'

'Blair Witch' creator revives 'The Beast of Boggy Creek'

"...no show. When director Eduardo Sanchez returns to the found footage genre for Exists, the beast is right in..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

V/H/S/2

Horror anthology scares up few thrills.

"...to see most of it. But following in the found-footage mode of horror storytelling (a mode that two of..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chronicle

Like a marriage of Cloverfield and Carrie, Chronicle blends faux-naif techniques with a teen telekinesis plot and gets fresh results.

"...this PG-13 thriller that breathes new life into the found-footage formula which has become so popular in the dozen..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What the Hell Is Rue McClanahan Doing With All Those Cats?

The bizarro relics of the Found Footage Festival

"...this Sunday. 2) Watch the touring show of the Found Footage Festival, which is brought to you by some..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Fantastic Fest Review: V/H/S/85

Found footage anthology finds a future by pushing the rules

"...sort of seasonal event, a veritable cottage industry of found footage shorts by a murderers row of horror filmmakers...."

Sept. 27, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Millennial Mayhem in V/H/S/99

The fifth installment in the found footage horror anthology series gets the Y2K jitters

"...(Ready or Not). For the fifth film in the found footage series, playing at Fantastic Fest ahead of its..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Feeding the 'Afflicted'

Clif Prowse and Derek Lee have a new angle on found footage

"...to a genre. Afflicted does it twice. One is found footage. The other … co-directors/stars Clif Prowse and Derek..."

Sept. 24, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Home Movies

Q&A with "Family Nightmare" director Dustin Defa

"...He wants you to know – this is not found footage...."

March 15, 2012 SXSW Post by Leah Churner

Blair Witch

Stay out of the (noisy) woods

"...and writer Simon Barrett’s sequel to 1999’s phenomenally successful found-footage freak-out The Blair Witch Project knows it can’t recapture..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pyramid

A team of U.S. archeologists becomes lost and hunted in the labyrinthine catacombs of a buried pyramid.

"...of dark tunnels and ancient evil into a newfangled found-footage format...."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

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