Italian filmmaker Ruggero Deodato’s horror/exploitation movie Cannibal Holocaust is generally regarded as being the first proper found-footage movie, as far as most film historians are concerned. Nevertheless, it was 1999’s The Blair Witch Project that catapulted the genre and its techniques into becoming something that your everyday moviegoer would be familiar with and recognize as, well, an actual genre (complete with its own narrative and character tropes) instead of just a stylistic flourish used to make a movie seem more “realistic”.
In the 21st century and in particular over the past decade, found-footage offerings have dominated the horror film landscape in a manner that recalls the popularity of the slasher sub-genre, back in the 1980s. Even non-found footage movies are sometimes mistaken for being found-footage, due to their similarities ...
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