Just when you thought it might be safe to take a chance on an unknown low-budget sci-fi/horror straight-to-dvd/download/whatever-takes-your-fancy feature, satisfied that the ‘found footage’ genre seems to have burnt itself out, here comes Phoenix Forgotten to remind us that it’s never a good idea to take anything for granted.
Thriving in the wake – more or less – of the success of the original Blair Witch Project, the best we can say in defence of the ‘found footage’ phenomenon is that it went some way towards demystifying the movie-making process and allowed anyone with a bit of imagination and a halfway decent camera-phone, to knock up a loose-change horror movie, often with the help of a handful of their enthusiastic friends/would-be actors. The flipside to this argument, of course, is that it also allowed rank amateurs who probably shouldn’t really be allowed to even watch films...
Thriving in the wake – more or less – of the success of the original Blair Witch Project, the best we can say in defence of the ‘found footage’ phenomenon is that it went some way towards demystifying the movie-making process and allowed anyone with a bit of imagination and a halfway decent camera-phone, to knock up a loose-change horror movie, often with the help of a handful of their enthusiastic friends/would-be actors. The flipside to this argument, of course, is that it also allowed rank amateurs who probably shouldn’t really be allowed to even watch films...
- 8/4/2017
- by Paul Mount
- The Cultural Post
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