19 Oct 2024

Film Review: Livescreamers

LIVESCREAMERS is a haunted house thriller like you’ve never seen before. Showing that virtual reality hauntings are just as deadly as the house down the lane. A new mode of filmmaking to refresh the ‘Found Footage’ genre. It is more apt to say the film is ‘created’ by Michelle Iannantuono

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15 Apr 2024

Hunting For The Hag (Unnamed Footage Festival)

From director Paul A. Brooks, co-written with producer Sierra Renfro, comes HUNTING FOR THE HAG, a hybrid-footage road trip of cryptid hunting and home invasion. While leaving me with mixed feelings, it will always come to mind when I hear the phrase ‘Found Footage horror movie.’ So it is no

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07 Apr 2024

NIAS (UNNANMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL)

Do cats always land on their feet? NIAS proves this adage true. Once I heard the ingenious concept of NIAS, I didn’t have to think twice to know I needed to see this. Found Footage is one of my all-time favourite sub-genres, and even when it’s not exactly my cup

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01 Apr 2024

CUDDLY TOYS (UNNANMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL)

This film boldly walks home alone at night with clenched keys in one fist and pepper spray in the other. The Sophomore film from Kansas Bowling (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) is a shockumentary for the ages. More important than any syllabus film that screened when I was in

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30 Mar 2024

Review: DO NOT WATCH (Unnamed Footage Festival)

UNNAMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL is officially underway in San Francisco. It is an entire film festival dedicated to screening Found Footage horror (and adjacent) films until the 31st of March. You love some, you hate some, but at the end of the day, Found Footage, whether it be faux documentaries or

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28 Jan 2023

Film Review: Skinamarink

SKINAMARINK has become a phenomenon since it first began screening. For many audiences, it is like nothing they have seen before. It is such a supremely experimental film that it is difficult to critique. It relies heavily on unconventional shots and editing that resist logic and continuity and focuses more

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25 Oct 2019

FILM REVIEW: THE ASSENT (TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL)

THE ASSENT amassed quite a lot of interest after its creepy poster and trailer were unveiled. As goes with most films, you have to exercise some degree of caution when looking at a film’s promotional materials as they can be misleading. The movie that was dubbed “the scariest film at

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13 Oct 2019

FILM REVIEW: THE FIELD

With the unprecedented success of films such as MIDSOMMAR and HEREDITARY, it’s fair to say that cults have played a major role in some of horrors more recent greatest hits. On first glance, Tate Bunker’s new film THE FIELD could be misrepresented as jumping on that taboo bandwagon. In actuality,

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21 Dec 2018

FILM REVIEW: BUTTERFLY KISSES

1999 was the year that THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and the found footage sub-genre gave way to an influx of independent filmmakers hoping to find the same success with their own found footage film. In the blink of an eye the market became flooded with low budget, grainy films that

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09 Nov 2018

FILM REVIEW: LEAVE YOURSELF ALONE

Do you enjoy films with needlessly confusing premises, poor performances and even worse writing? Well look no further than LEAVE YOURSELF ALONE, because it is all that and so much more. Producer/director Nicole Eckenroad finds abandoned documentary style film footage of Nicole Grace, a 19 year old girl pursuing her

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