Darren Gray Found footage horror rarely features individuals with disabilities, however, it is a genre that manipulates and subverts ideas of what is perceived as ‘normal’ especially around concepts of embodiment. Alexandra Heller-Nicolas argues that the format creates “a space where spectators can enjoy having their boundaries pushed” and “where the lines between fact and […]
Britta R. Moline There is a common trope of internet urban legend that starts like this: the author of the story has attended a yard sale or thrift shop and stumbled upon a used video game cartridge. This physical video game is familiar in some ways – typically identified as a popular late 90s, early […]
Shellie McMurdo ‘In recent years, “the archive” as both a concept and an object has been undergoing a transformation’ (Baron 102) In 1989, the National Film Registry (NFR) was established in the United States. Since then, twenty-five American films have been selected each year for archival preservation by the registry board on account of them […]
Adam Daniel Released in late 2022, Immortality, the new FMV (full-motion video) game by developer Half Mermaid and creator Sam Barlow generated a wave of laudatory reviews and was rightfully celebrated as one of the more audacious and thematically complex uses of the form to date. In his previous games Her Story (2015) and Telling […]
Ellen Boyd “The connection between the internet and found footage horror is strong,” writes Shellie McMurdo. Yet despite over 20 years of internet connection, the most famous instance of online found-footage horror happened in 1999 when The Blair Witch Project’s (1999) website went live before the release of the film. The website contained information about […]
