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Crowsnest 2012

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Found footage horror. Updated weekly.

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Road trip horror. Updated weekly.

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The Blair Witch Project, which turns 20 this week, wasn’t the first thriller to present itself as the raw video recordings of a doomed camera crew. The infamous Cannibal Holocaust got there almost 20 years before it, and nearly a decade before that, The Legend Of Boggy Creek blurred the line between documentary and horror. But Blair Witch was such a phenomenon—and in its ratio of shoestring cost to enormous earnings, so profitable—that it essentially transformed a cost-efficient gimmick into a genre onto itself. In the two decades since, they’ve just kept making these terror-tilted faux-home movies, endlessly subjecting a new gaggle of camera-carrying “regular people” to the aliens, ghosts, and monsters barreling headfirst into their viewfinders.

Of course, not too many of the found-footage flicks from this century are very good. Most of them are, in fact, lousy, the amateur-filmmaker scenario providing convenient cover for uneventful and artless schlock—for movies that look bad and go nowhere on purpose. But while none have come within zooming range of Blair Witch’s unholy, snuff-film power, there are a few worthwhile mock-doc chillers made in its wake. Below, we’ve gone to the tapes, reviewed the footage, and uncovered the best this craze has offered in the two decades since audiences came out in droves to see a trio of nobodies pantomime panic in the woods, blubbering directly into the shaky handheld camera.

https://film.avclub.com/just-keep-filming-16-worthwhile-found-footage-horror-m-1836018013

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List import from http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070607652/.

Missing on the list:
909 Experiment
Absinthe
The Garlock Incident
Crybaby Bridge
The Burningmoore Incident
The Interview
The Slender Case
Lost Tapes
The Rheinsberg Tapes
The Mitchell Tapes
Hulk Blood Tapes
Silent Lake
Evidence of a Haunting
The Trick or Treaters
Where's Wendy
Alone in the Ghost House
The Nanabijou Tapes
Dead Eyes
The House on the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Searching for Haizmann
The Legend of the 5ive
Pursuit of a Legend
Resurrecting the Street Walker
End Roll
A Blair Witch Tale
The Lost Footage
File Box
Five Find Your Limit
Poltergeist Encounters
ParaAbnormal
Pestilenz
Four Corners of Fear
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Kerb Crawlers
Red Like Blood
Shallow Creek Cult
Sunshine Girl and the Hunt for Black Eyed Kids
Limestone Burning
In the Dead of Night

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Horror featuring cannibalism. Updated weekly.

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