Thread by @AestheticGamer1

(1/??) ALRIGHT, THE FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR MOVIE TWEET THREAD.

I fucking love Found Footage Horror Films. I have legitmately seen over 200 at this point. They're often not very long (average 60-80 minutes) & a lot of them you can find on various streaming services or for cheap, so

(2/??) it's easy to just take a day, alone or with friends, & watch several of these movies back-to-back. I've had many days I've done marothons of watching 5-8 FFHF (Found Footage Horror Films) in a row. They even come from all sorts of different countries & styles, different

(3/??) types of horror blended in. Part of the fun is they vary so wildly in quality, some are just trash, some are so bad they're good, some are good but flawed, some are fucking hidden gems you fall in love with. But because they're so short & cheap, they're easy to digest.

(4/??) So, I'm going to talk about a bunch of them. Just whatever I feel like talking about. I'll limit myself to a single tweet/image about each movie, film name, quality, abbreviated short thoughts. I'm going to try to talk about a few dozen that left an impression, good or bad

(5/??) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Korean, LOVED IT. Features a web show exploring the supposed most haunted place in Korea, filmed in a real world Korean abandoned Hospital, use real history, but mixed with some freaky twists. Great atmosphere & execution, it actually scared me.

(6/??) The Borderlands aka Final Prayer (2013), British, liked it a lot! Stars a group of religious brothers sent by the Vatican to disprove "religious phenomena" reported, to be skeptical & try to disprove it. If they cannot, it's a true religious miracle. Good slow burn!

(7/??) Resolution (2012), American, I have a REAL soft spot for this movie. A guy about to have a child tries to reconnect w/his old best friend who became a druggie & is squatting after receiving a strange email. Starts to find weird lost media in the nearby woods. I adore it.

(8/??) Lake Mungo, Australian. not for everyone but I like it. Framed like an actual documentary of a family after their daughters death. Played straight & like its real & this is an actual documentary. Slowly builds-up to a single scary scene in the movie that I found effective.

(9/??) P.O.V. - A Cursed Film, Japanese, I HATED THIS MOVIE. I think this is the worst Found Footage Horror Movie I saw, and I LOVE J-Horror. This is like one of the most dull, dragged out unimpressive J-Horror movies I've seen. I just did not like this one. I spit on this movie.

(10/??) Occult (2009), Japanese. I liked this one, but it's a sorta' rough recommend. I think some will love it, some will find it dull. Low budget, following a person exploring the insanity & connection between the occult & terrorism. Really interesting sound design.

(11/??) The Last Broadcast (1988), American. A historically important movie, being one of the first Found Footage Horror movies ever made, but unless you're a Historian, I wouldn't really recommend. Just kinda ho-hum, messy unsatisfying ending. It's a rough, ehhh movie.

(12/??) [REC] (2007), Spanish. Like this one a lot, fun fact RE7 took some inspiration from this movie. Features a news reporter trying to get a scoop, but then her & the people within an apartment complex get locked into quarantine with the building shut down. It's well done!

(13/??) [Rec 2] (2009), Spanish. Rare case I think the sequel is ALMOST as good as the first movie. Follows directly where the last movie ended, I'd recommend watching if watch the first.
Still need to see the third & fourth movies, & the American remakes, the Quarantine films.

(14/??) Frankenstein's Army (2013), Netherlands. It's dumb fun. Fun fact RE8 took inspiration from this film. A trashy movie that knows its trash and can be fun if you like the concept, some fun monster designs. More style than substance though, but the style leaves an impression

(15/??) Gonna' summarize the V/H/S/ films into two tweets. Four movies total, anthology series with short films by different directors put into one film. V/H/S/ 1 & V/H/S/ 94 I like most, V/H/S/ Viral the worst. V/H/S/ 2 has maybe one of the better shorts between all the movies,

(16/??) (yes, the Korean one), but I think the first film & 94 have the most consistency in execution, more ambition, where V/H/S/ 2 is more ho-hum with one or two exceptions. First movie has like forced topless bits it felt the directors were forced to put in, though.

(17/??) What We Do In The Shadows (2014), New Zealand. I liked it, inspired that TV show currently running I heard is good but haven't seen yet. Horror-Comedy where we follow a bunch of vampires from different eras of vampires who all live together. It's amusing for what it is.

(18/??) Trollhunter (2010), Norwegian. A group of film students go out to make a documentary on a suspected illegal bear poacher, only to find out he's a secret troll hunter who keeps trolls from ravaging harm on the public. Some impressive scenes & effects, well executed.

(19/??) As Above, So Below (2014), American. This movie was better than I expected it to be. A group wants to illegally film the Paris Catacombs, go to parts of it the public are not allowed, & find something stranger than they expected. It's a fun watch, honestly.

(20/??) The Mirror (2014), British. UGGGHHHHHH. Ever see a movie that starts off good, promising, even has some good scenes, but they're all frontloaded, and what the movie devolves into is just disappointing and so dull to what they could've done. That's The Mirror, alright.

(21/??) Banshee Chapter (2013), American. Many will dislike the movie, but I liked it actually. It's got cheap jumpscares, know that, & I won't lie, some got me. A loose retelling of Lovecraft's "From Beyond", spun with Project MKUltra. Does some things well, others poorly.

(22/??) The Conspiracy (2012), Canadian. I liked it, not loved it, but a nice watch. Couple friends see a conspiracy nut being made fun of online in a viral video, decide to make a documentary about him, wind up pulled into a conspiracy. Yeah, it's good, not great, but fun.

(23/??) Noroi: The Curse, Japan. It's good! From the same director as Occult earlier (I'm not putting these in any real order), we watch a film by a man who went missing after making a film about the supernatural. I don't love it like some do, but I did very much like it.

(24/??) Mr. Jones (2013), American. I think it has some scenes that are good, but the movie falls apart. It has some good visuals, & the topic of art pieces out of horror, some good acting. The plot just never gels with the nice pieces. Don't regret watching, though.

(25/??) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, American. An interesting twist on slashers, where a slasher killers ala Michael Myers or Jason exist, & a crew try document an uprising slasher hit getting ready to hit the big leagues. It's fun for what it is.

(26/??) TWO TWEETS FOR THIS ONE. Skew (2011), American. I kinda' love this movie, but I don't think most would. It's about a group of friends who go on a roadtrip together before their lives take a big change, & our main character refuses to stop filming this afraid it'll be the

(27/??) (SKEW PART 2) last time they as friends ever spend time like this again together. However, he finds whoever on his camera has a smudge on the lens ends up dying, &the friends start not wanting him to film them. A lot of arguing, drama, some jumpscares, but I'm fond of it.

(28/??) Creep (2014), American. I like this one, we follow a sorta' awkward cameraman hired off the internet to document a guy, who ends up being a real creep. I think the characters & dynamic between them hold this one up, with fun twists & turns throughout.

(29/??) Creep 2 (2017), American. And then the sequel... Gonna' be honest, I don't like this one. It's okay I guess. But I think this one suffers from a lack of character chemistry the first movie had, telling a bit too much to the titular creep, bad pacing. It's not bad, but ehh

(30/??) Hell House LLC (2015), American. I liked it. This is a slow-burn that builds to its last act. Setting up a Halloween Attraction in a supposed real haunted house, where small things go wrong in development, ultimately leading to a bad opening night. I think worth a watch.

(31/??) Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, American. Not AS good as the first film, but a decent follow-up. Some good scenes, fun connections to the first. A few plot points I though were kinda' stupid though, but overall I had fun with it.

Still need to see the third one.

(32/??) TWO TWEETS FOR THIS ONE. The Tunnel (2011), Australian. A couple people wanted me to talk about this one. It was officially released onto YouTube for free on release, done as an experiment to see how this release method worked.

The movie itself is good, solid. It's sorta

(33/??) a well executed "standard" Found Footage Horror film. Follow a reporter & her crew trying to unearth a government conspiracy, get dragged into horror. The acting's good, the horror is kept a mystery, the setting is probably the best thing about it. It's a solid film.

(34/??) Evidence (2012), American. Not to be mistaken for a horror movie of the exact same name that came out a year later. I liked it decently, not all will. A group of friends go camping, one of them films it, a monster seems to be in the woods. Doesn't go where you might think

(35/??) Grave Encounters (2011), Canadian. I like it. Paranomal Reality TV show crew film their final episode when they enter into a real haunted asylum. It's predictable, but I think a fun watch, well executed. Grew a cult following who love this movie.

(36/??) Grave Encounters 2 (2012), Canadian. Sequel, it's decent fun, but not as good as the first. Gets fun in a meta way, a person who loved the first movie goes to where they filmed it, & finds out the horrors are real. A few clichés, though a nice twist half-way through.

(37/??) The Taking of Deborah Logan, American. Honestly this is well executed movie, even if I like it rather than love it. Some good visuals & well paced. It lacks uniqueness, but is well executed. I still remember the unhinged jaw voring visual years later, so there's that.

(38/66) The Visit (2015), American. I think it was with this film that M. Night Shyamalan started to find his groove again. We follow a pair of kids recording their summer break with their grandparents, who seem a bit unhinged. I actually really liked it, a very fun watch.

(39/66) One Cut Of The Dead, Japanese. I liked it okay, I think others may love it. I won't spoil it too badly, but this is a meta-horror movie with layers to it. ake sure to get past the first 20 minutes, and see if you like where it's going after the "shift". It's interesting.

(40/66) The Sacrament (2017), Japanese. Liked it! Not to be mistaken with the 2014 movie. We follow a film student who begins filming every day to become a film maker, hears a legend about a ghost who shows up every 4 years, & sets to film her as he finds her beautiful.

(41/66) The Sacrament (2014), American. Not to be mistaken with the 2017 movie. Basically a fictional telling of the real world Jonestown Cult, can debate how tasteful it is to do a fictional retelling of that. But movies okay by itself.

(42/66) 6-5=2 (2013), Kannada. I like it. This one is very Blair Witch inspired, but I think it both being directed & from a place so few people know about helps a lot as the setting & local beliefs help a lot to help set it apart. Not a fan of the ending, but unnerving parts.

(43/66) Exhibit A (2007), British. I like it, elevated by good acting to support a simple premise. This is a slow-burn, following a family. This is grounded realistic horror, following a family's abusive relationship that unfortunately escalates. It's well done for what it is.

(44/66) The Collingswood Story (2002), American. This one's historically important as the first movie to use video calls/computer interface as a part of its movie. It's a bit of a mixed bag, & is a fairly simple movie. A bit of fun to see this early no-budget effort, though.

(45/67) REEL (2015), American. Interesting, but it may come off as pseudo snuff. A deranged person online becomes obsessed with a YouTuber Horror critic & wants him to star in a snuff film. Fun thing, they had a real YouTube channel with horror movie uploads leading up it.

(46/66) Cropsey (2009), American. This isn't exactly found footage, it's a true crime story & real life documentary about an urban legend and man who kidnapped several children to an island. They film it in a way to resemble a found footage hororr film though. It's interesting.

(47/66) Digging Up The Marrow (2014), American. It's OK. Being upfront, I love Ray Wise, seeing him star in a Found Footage Horror Movie for me was a lot of fun. It suffers a bit from writer/director self inserting acting the main character, but has a fun story, designs.

(48/66) Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, Romanian. I liked it, this one is RAW. Actor delivers a great performance to seem like an attention seeking psycho. Follows a wannabe film director who is making a short film for real actress Anne Hathaway, to convince her to be in his movie.

(49/66) Devil's Pass (2013). It's okay. If you know the Dyatlov Pass Incident, it's a fictional take on that. They combine a bunch of conspiracy theories to make a wild take on what happened to those hikers. Fun for how wild it is, but I didn't find it did anything exceptionally.

(50/66) Host (2020), American. I like it. It came out at the height of the COVID pandemic, & is one of those "Web Call" movies. Was timely as each person isolated in their homes, & I think one of the better "Web Call" films I've seen. Not a surprising story, but good scenes in it

(51/67) They're Watching (2016), American. I liked it! It's a horror-comedy from some of the former Spongebob/Angry Beavers writers. Follows some Americans in Europe who go check out a house a friend fixed up, only to get caught up in a cranky isolated village. It's fun.

(52/67) Searching (2018), American. More Thriller than horror, but it's enjoyable. We follow a dad who follows a trail of digital breadcrumbs to try and figure out where his missing daughter is. Some fun twists & turns.

(53/67) The Bay (2012), American. It's pretty decent. We follow a small community's developing ecological disaster through TV News, Online Videos, more, as a number of people there fall sick, and it's revealed there's something wrong with their water supply. Fun biological terror

(54/67) The Gallows (2015), American. I don't like it. I like the idea behind it, but the execution was off. It does get slightly better in the second half, but ehh. Theater student accidentally killed by hanging via technical error. I think this movie ends up a bit too cliched.

(55/67) Skinwalker Ranch (2013), American. It's okay I guess. Kid gets abducted by aliens on tape, the government responds & sets up stuff to try & figure out, it goes wrong. They try to stuff a bit too much in here, but it has its moments, some alien conspiracy horror fun.

(56/67) Ghostwatch (1992), British. This premiered on the BBC on Halloween like it was an actual news cast, which is cool. Used a mix of actors & real people they tried to trick into their fictional set-up. I like it! It was a fun experiment with fun results.

(57/67The Blair Witch Project (1999), American. Yeah, yeah. It's good for what it is. The film that popularized the genre. It is true it's 80% three teens arguing in the woods, but they deliver great performances using some real irritation methods, & their marketing was genius.

(58/67) In Memorium (2005), American. Nope, didn't like it. Someone with incurable cancer moves in with his girlfriend & sets up cameras to record his last few months alive. Unfortunately, bad acting, story is a mess, just kinda' rather dull.

(59/67) Re-Cut (2010), American. I don't like it. Last movie I'll highlight I didn't like as prefer focusing on films I do, but two girls found murdered on a farm, reality TV news caster sent in to do a live report. A dumb premise that takes itself too seriously & an ehh movie.

(60/67) Cloverfield (2008), American. I like it! I think a combo of Blair Witch & Cloverfield sorta' blasted the Found Footage gates open. We follow a group of friends in New York when a giant Kaiju attacks the city to rescue a friend. Classic of the genre, and a good movie.

(61/67) Afflicted (2013), Canadian. It's solid, I think some like it more than I do, but I'm happy I watched it even if I thought it was just above average. Two friends on a trip in a foreign country run into trouble where one is infected with something that begins changing him.

(62/67) Incident at Loch Ness (2004), American. I like it! This is sorta' a parody of the "It's Real" angle of Blair Witch, the joke maybe goes on a bit long, but it's fun. Two film crews compete & dupe each other trying to make a Loch Ness documentary they both insist is real.

(63/67) The Possession of Michael King (2014), American. I have mixed feelings, but overall enjoyed it. A man goes to disprove the paranormal after a psychic's bullshit prediction kills his wife, & does satanic rituals to show he won't be possessed. That doesn't go well.

(64/67) The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), American. I think this film has one GENIUS segment, then the rest are okay to good. A series of hundreds of tapes are found in a police raid document years of a serial killer's work, and the police go over some of the tapes.

(65/67)There's still quite a few more I've seen, and still quite a few I need to see in the Found Footage Horror Film genre. As I said at the start, these are easy to consume and marathon. There's a few handy lists out there online, I'll link a couple useful resources if you just

(66/67) IMO, the singular best source to find them is Found Footage Critic, they update with a lot, label subgenres well, & have a huge database you can search by year, subgenre, where made, etc: foundfootagecritic.com/found-footage-…
These two IMDB lists are helpful:
imdb.com/list/ls0257120…

(67/67) imdb.com/list/ls0639148…
This long Twitter thread has made me in the mood to watch a few, tonight I plan to FINALLY watch The Medium (2021) & A Record of Sweet Murder (2014), first is by director of Shutter, a 2004 Thai horror film I love, second I've heard good things on.