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Anyone Else Love/Hate "Found Footage" Horror Films

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:47 am
by Everett
Just saw the new trailer for paranormal activity 4 (yes 4 :roll: ). Don't get me wrong I'm a huge
horror movie junkie but I think the "found footage" style has run it's course. But don't tell
hollywood that.

Re: Anyone Else Love/Hate "Found Footage" Horror F

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:14 am
by conversationpc
Everett wrote:Just saw the new trailer for paranormal activity 4 (yes 4 :roll: ). Don't get me wrong I'm a huge
horror movie junkie but I think the "found footage" style has run it's course. But don't tell
hollywood that.


Probably just an excuse to make a cheap movie that appears to be real.

Re: Anyone Else Love/Hate "Found Footage" Horror F

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:44 pm
by JRNYMAN
conversationpc wrote:
Everett wrote:Just saw the new trailer for paranormal activity 4 (yes 4 :roll: ). Don't get me wrong I'm a huge
horror movie junkie but I think the "found footage" style has run it's course. But don't tell
hollywood that.


Probably just an excuse to make a cheap movie that appears to be real.

But, does it? Really? I never understood these types of genre films. Somewhere along the way, directors/film makers tried to associate video with real life docu's leaving the soft touches and cinematography of film to display/perform "Based on's" For me, it's the content of what's being shown and its legitimacy from the very start that attaches a type of visual media to my mind's acceptance of what it has just witnessed - if that makes any sense.
That's not to say some of them aren't very entertaining, I just prefer not to blur the lines between true, honest, legitimate reality and sorta, kinda, real if you look at it this way....

Re: Anyone Else Love/Hate "Found Footage" Horror F

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:33 pm
by Journey/Survivor
Everett wrote:Just saw the new trailer for paranormal activity 4 (yes 4 :roll: ). Don't get me wrong I'm a huge
horror movie junkie but I think the "found footage" style has run it's course. But don't tell
hollywood that.


Is Molly Ephraim in one of the films from that franchise?

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:29 pm
by texafana
I don't mind it, I just can't stand the shaky camera bs, been sick a few times from these movies. I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to Cloverfield, which I think would have been much better without the shaky camera effect.