“If the atomic-age monster movie was the premier horror mode of the 1950s and the teen-sex slasher flick dominated the Reagan years, found footage was the horror movement of the 2010s. This strain – defined by handheld cameras, improvised dialogue and barely seen ghosts and monsters – had its big bang in 1999’s ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ but didn’t really come into its own as a genre until the late 2000s, just as cellphones and social media were turning us all into compulsive self-recorders.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day
Found Footage Freakout runs Thu, Sep 18 through Thu, Sep 25.