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Beyond the North Woods offers hope for local, micro budget filmmaking to reinvigorate even the most familiar of premises, turning content back into art.
It’s been 15 years and Cloverfield is still coming up Clovers. If you like horror or monsters or just watching things go boom, this one is for you.
Combining found footage, family photographs, and Karim Ainouz’s own camerawork, Mariner of the Mountains is a brilliant mix of family history and origins.
The warped claustrophobia of Masking Threshold is wholly original, making it one of the best horror films of the year.
Edited from decades of footage that were self-shot by Kilmer himself, Val is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking.
Using found footage, Ignacio Ceroi builds a poignant dwelling on the contemporary nomad that beautifully conveys a man’s existential quest.
In 2007, director Oren Peli spawned the multi-film, multi-million-earning Paranormal Activity franchise. Nearly thirteen years…
The Gallows Act II is full of bad jump scares, laughable dialogue and is never very scary. Kevin Lee reviews.
One Cut for the Dead is an inventive zombie comedy that encourages the feel good celebration of the hard work that goes into making any film.
Film Inquiry’s Tessa Bahoosh writes about one of her favourite films, The Blair Witch Project, and how its existential dread still resonates today.
Followed, with its contrived shaky ghosts and shoddy script, is the millennial’s answer to The Shining and 1408, without the compelling stories.
Unfriended: Dark Web shows that by tapping into modern communication, it’s possible to create a new cinematic language for the slasher sub-genre.
The Devil’s Doorway is effective up to a certain point, but ultimately it squanders all of the potential set up in its first act in lieu of a very by-the-numbers found footage horror.
In our latest Away From the Hype, we examine The Blair Witch Project, seeing if the classic found footage horror still holds up after all this time.
Living Among Us is a poorly planned improviso, lacking direction, depth, story, character development and the ability to engage the viewer.
