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The Found Footage Phenomenon

A lot of horror works best when it's basedin a kind of quotidian reality where you look at...

A lot of horror works best when it's based
in a kind of quotidian reality where you look at something
and go, "This is the real world," and then all of a sudden,
you get an eruption of something that's very unreal
into a real world, and it makes it
more frightening

Full Transcript

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-A lot of horror works best
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when it's based in a kind of quotidian reality
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where you look at something and go,
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"This is the real world,"
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and then all of a sudden, you get an eruption
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of something that's very unreal into a real world,
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and it makes it more frightening.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:48
Uploaded
May 08, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Caprisar Productions,Fractured Visions

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Movie Summary

The Found Footage Phenomenon is an independent documentary charting the origins of the found footage sub-genre, tracking it through to the technique's current form, and asking what the future is.
-Your goal always as a horror filmmaker - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
-Your goal always as a horror filmmaker
And I think a really good found footage movie can do that - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:09
And I think a really good found footage movie can do that
You know, the phone footage, you know, back in the day, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
You know, the phone footage, you know, back in the day,
-The found footage film genre came at a time - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:14
-The found footage film genre came at a time
-[Snarling] - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
-[Snarling]
They're the ones like "Cloverfield" - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
They're the ones like "Cloverfield"
And their goal is not really to make you think - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
And their goal is not really to make you think
But then there are ones like "Blair Witch Project", - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:13
But then there are ones like "Blair Witch Project"...
That to me is when it's done well, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
That to me is when it's done well,
And I think that it lends itself very much to the horror genre - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:09
And I think that it lends itself very much to the horror gen...
-A lot of other types of horror films, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
-A lot of other types of horror films,
There's always a sense of like, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:12
There's always a sense of like,
-Everything about this aesthetic is telling you - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
-Everything about this aesthetic is telling you
And so it doesn't feel like when you see - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
And so it doesn't feel like when you see
It feels like you're actually witnessing a supernatural event. - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:04
It feels like you're actually witnessing a supernatural...
-Micah! Micah! Micah! Micah! - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
-Micah! Micah! Micah! Micah!
-Katie! -[Screams] - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:11
-Katie! -[Screams]
So if you look at "Dracula", "Dracula", the novel is - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:08
So if you look at "Dracula", "Dracula", ...
The entire book is written in what you sort of - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:08
The entire book is written in what you sort of
-"Frankenstein" starts in that way, about someone - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
-"Frankenstein" starts in that way, about someone