A found-footage textbook escalation-case from the makers of Paranormal Activity and The Purge, a normal day & empathizable situation becomes a paranoiac incel horror by unforgettable Duplass-lead, real jump-scares, & lots of Peachfuzz. 7.5/10.
[category:horror/slasher/found-footage,date:2015-04-03,rate:7.5,type:movies]
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Category: Found-Footage
Creep 2 (2017)
Bigger, bolder, & bodaciously-dadbod with the perfect new whitebread pilates-bro matcha-smoothie meme caricature, cyber-ambition to delve more into psychology of incels/social-media, & morbidly-beautiful love-story. A fantastic sequel. 8.5/10.
[category:horror/found-footage/comedyromance,date:2017-06-03,rate:8.5,type:movies]
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Chronicle (2012)
A power-driven evolution of the found-footage genre and dark indie realism-base parable of adolescence and experimental superheroicism-psychosis, Chronicle is a tale of intense violence, epic DeHaan-led performances, genre-innovation. 8.7/10.
[category:actionadventure/science-fiction/comic-book-films-tv/horror/found-footage,date:2012-05-02,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
One of the pioneers of found-footage being to-date amongst its most effective scare packages, Paranormal Activity shows what imagination & atmosphere over budget can bring Horror. 8/10.
[category:horror/found-footage,date:2007-11-03,rate:8,type:movies]
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The preeminent urban legend campfire scare that reinvigorated the found-footage subgenre, but one shakily-filmed, annoying-characterized [with incessant whines], & pretty unscary-overall, TBWP: mediocre/overrated but imaginative project. 6/10.
[category:horror/classics/found-footage,date:1999-04-03,rate:6,type:movies]
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[REC]/Quarantine (2007)
A wild found-footage outbreak that unfolds from patient zero in real time, [REC] & Qtine changed-the-game w. of the most pulse-rattling, creative, & visceral jolts of limewire electricity of the modern pandemic/biological-horror subgenre. 8.5/10.
[category:horror/kaiju/found-footage,date:2007-06-03,rate:8.5,type:movies]
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Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Peddling an ahead-of-its-time script playing on society’s penchant for reality TV & internet, creepy locational-setting, found-footage expansion, & Busta Rhymes, but lack of energy, underwhelming Laurie finale, and unresolved mystery angle. 4.7/10.
[category:horror/found-footage,date:2002-06-03,rate:4.7,type:movies]
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Cloverfield (2008)
A brutal, bludgeoning apocalyptic thriller groundbreakingly found-footage shot through a street-level perspective, despite shaky-cam headaches, a brilliant reinvention of what’s possible in monster/kaiju films. 8.4/10.
[category:science-fiction/found-footage/apocalyptica/actionadventure/kaiju/all-time-favorites,date:2008-07-28,rate:8.7,type:movies]
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