Dawn Keetley Director of Get Out (2017) and Us (2019), Jordan Peele is best known for films that are relatively unambiguously horror. His third film, Nope (2022), though, appears to take a turn away from horror. Indeed, in numerous interviews before and after the release of Nope (2022), Peele described his primary influences as science […]
Kari Sawden At the end of the first official trailer for the 2014 found footage horror movie As Above, So Below (AASB) the audience is invited to journey into the Paris Catacombs to “discover the truth” (Rotten Tomatoes Trailers). This statement, paired with the frightening images teased in the trailer, implies that there is something […]
Isaiah Frost Rivera Though often excluded from the found footage genre, mockumentary horror films offer a fascinating look at how contemporary found-footage media consistently reestablish and redefine horror conventions through innovative storytelling techniques.[1] Two independent films by first-time horror directors that embrace this generative quality are Savageland (2015) and Butterfly Kisses (2018), each a chilling, […]
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. A variant of the “found footage” film can be found in 2013’s WNUF Halloween Special (hereafter WNUF). The film is presented as a video recording (VHS) of a local television newscast followed by a television special about a local haunted house on Halloween night, 1987. The action is interrupted every few […]
Amira Shokr In the pictures we take, the videos we save, and the printed-out images of ourselves in old photo albums, we exist amongst our ghosts; we see the shell of ourselves through the camera lenses we use. We don’t acknowledge the frightening mode of existence this reveals, running parallel with our “reality.” Media can […]