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Tag Archives: found footage
What’s in a horror title?
My first thought going into found footage film Atrocious was “Never title your movie ATROCIOUS in the age of cyber bashing….” Alas, the number of jabs about the movie’s quality equaling its title are all over the Internet. I know … Continue reading
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Tagged Atrocious, found footage
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Frankenstein’s Army – not your usual Frankenstein or found footage film…
I know. You hear Frankenstein in the title and you groan like you’re the monster just come to life (I did). You hear found footage and you roll your eyes (mine get a little more stuck in that position with … Continue reading
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Tagged found footage, Frankenstein’s Army, living dead, undead, Zombies
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The b-horror of scream king Jeff Dylan Graham
I love my actors and actresses who sell their souls and careers to the devil. So this time I take on some of the indie horror of cutie Jeff Dylan Graham. This barely scratches the surface of his filmography, but … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 Tears, Beyond the Dunwich Horror, Bloody Bloody Bible Camp, Bryan Loves You, Cadaver Bay, Cremains, Dead & Rotting, Dead Clowns, Dorm of the Dead, found footage, Hellbound: The Book of the Dead, Home Sick, horror anthology, living dead, Malefic, October Moon, Sculpture, slashers, Stuck, The Theatre Bizarre, undead, vampires, witches, Zombiegeddon, Zombies
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The most convincing found footage backstory since The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project used the dawning of the internet age to create a firestorm of hype, planting some incredibly creepy urban legends and documentaries that had many of us believing that the Blair Witch myth was real. The Upper … Continue reading
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Tagged found footage, The Upper Footage (UPPER)
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Direct-to-DVD: the low-budget horrors of Joe Castro
Joe Castro has been doing special effects makeup as far back as the 90s, on horror films such as Uncle Sam and Night of the Demons III. It didn’t take him long to start directing his own low-budget films. Aside … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Sisters, Evil Unleashed: The Mummy, found footage, gay horror, horror anthology, Near Death, slashers, Terror Toons, The Jackhammer Massacre, The Legend of the Chupacabra, The Summer of Massacre, vampires
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From cyber insanity to an insane asylum
Vlog and Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf offer a double-dose of cheap pseudo-slashers from a 4-in-1 boxed set I bought, so I thought I’d cover them in one blog. Plus, they both seem to steal from the Saw franchise. … Continue reading
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Tagged found footage, Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf, slashers, Vlog
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Low-budget ghost horror marathon
Okay, I watched these 4 films because they came on one of those bargain bin collections. You know. The types of films where the entire budget seems to be used for kick ass DVD artwork. All of these films are … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 Nights of Darkness, Evidence of a Haunting, found footage, ghosts, Ominous, supernatural, The Haunting of Winchester House
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Ouija board horror done found footage style!
Remember back in 1986, when a Ouija board was the focus of an entire movie? Sure, the board has made a cameo here and there in movies ever since, but director Israel Luna (of Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives and Fright … Continue reading
Get…OUT! (No really, just get the frick out idiots!)
Just like the first Paranormal Activity, I watched the sequel while I was alone at night with all the lights off. This definitely helps immerse you in the experience, and you find yourself jumping at shadows and trying to see … Continue reading
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Tagged found footage, Paranormal Activity 2
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The reality of horror movies…
It just so happens that I have two films in my horror DVD collection that revolve around a group of 20-somethings gathering in a house for some sort of “reality” show (not counting Halloween: Resurrection). They are Kolobos (1999) and … Continue reading