In some cases, horror films have used the tagline "based on true events," but the story remains as fictional as ever. It's a marketing ploy, and curious viewers prove that it works. Research is ...

Found-footage horror movies are a relatively niche subgenre, but they form an important part of the landscape. Bringing documentary-style realism to terrifying tales of psychological and supernatural ...

Late Night with the Devil utilizes found footage in a unique way. It presents a faux documentary that investigates unearthed footage from the mysterious final episode of the 1970s talk show Night Owls ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Blair Witch Project sparked a found footage craze in cinema. In the years that followed its ...

RLJE Films and Shudder have acquired global rights to “House on Eden,” the feature debut of social media stars Kris Collins and Celina Myers. The filmmakers are content creators, best known as ...

Building tension and escalating the terror to a point of no return, movies like The Blair Witch Project and The Thing are ...

Movie lovers seemed to have a serious case of found footage fatigue in 2011. Their disdain was so intense that the detractors seemed to outweigh fans of the POV filmmaking technique 10 to 1. Perhaps ...

The Blair Witch Project’ revolutionized the horror genre with its realistic ‘found footage’ style, but didn’t catapult its ...

"We're making a movie right now!" Vertical has unveiled a clever official trailer for an indie horror creation called Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project, from filmmaker Max Tzannes. A ...