Found footage movies
Found footage makes one promise: this is the recording, and you are watching what the camera actually caught. Everything else follows from it. The camera has to have a reason to be running, the frame is allowed to miss the important thing, and the audience does the work of filling in whatever the lens did not.
Cannibal Holocaust brought the device into horror in 1980, though only about half of that film is recovered footage and the technique had been used outside the genre before it. The Blair Witch Project is the one that made it commercial in 1999, and Paranormal Activity then stripped the kit back to a camcorder, a tripod and a suburban bedroom.
It has aged into a technique rather than a genre, and it bends easily. Lake Mungo sets it inside a grief documentary built from interviews, Creep hands the camera to a hired videographer with one very friendly client, and Late Night with the Devil presents a 1977 talk show broadcast that goes wrong on air.
Notable found footage movies
If you only ever watch a handful of these, make it these.
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New found footage movies
The format keeps finding new things to be. Recent ones borrow from livestreams, screen recordings and archival tape as readily as from camcorders.
Upcoming found footage movies
A few found footage movies on the way. Dates can still move, especially for the ones furthest down the schedule.
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