Our seventh special issue takes up found footage horror – and we have a real bumper crop of essays here, eighteen of them, along with the special issue introduction. We’ve made an point here of seeking to expand the canon of found footage horror, so you’re as likely to find unfamiliar as familiar names and […]
Justin Wigard In comparison to hegemonic mainstream tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons and Dragons (Wizards of the Coast), Pathfinder (Paizo), and Call of Cthulhu (Chaosium) that have more or less codified what a “standard” TTRPG looks and functions like, independent or indie TTRPGs have long been a space for creators to experiment with the […]
Devin McGrath-Conwell It is only fitting that as technology and the consumption of media evolves that the found footage genre would progress in turn. If flashpoints such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007) codified the mainstream success of finding footage in a camera, more recent fare propels the genre squarely into […]
Heather Roberts In Joseph and Vanessa Winter’s horror comedy Deadstream (2022), disgraced influencer Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter) attempts to resuscitate his career by livestreaming his stay at a haunted house. The film is part of a newer, more Generation Z-friendly iteration of found footage horror that explores the alarming lengths influencers can go to in […]
Thomas Britt The ontological and epistemological underpinnings of found footage horror movies are often inseparable from popular and critical discussions of the form. An evaluative consideration of classic or conventional fictional films involves the indexicality or artificiality of the filmed people and objects they contain and the promotion of the resulting images in artistic and […]