Noroi: The Curse take the cake for best found footage horror film. The way that they entwine fake TV footage, and interviews was brilliant and it contains some of the scariest images I've seen in film.
George, more frequent long social/philosophical issue discussion videos please! You're the best for such types of videos on You Tube! I'm waiting, and I will be checking your channel weekly! Don't let me down! You have a big fan!
"I advise you to [see it]... just to see how utterly dreadful it is for yourselves. I defy anyone to be even remotely scared by this movie."
I think I'll just take your word that it's crap and not waste my time. There are only so many hours in my life, and I'll choose to learn from the time you wasted on it instead of doubling down on the waste.
Sometimes life is too short for terrible movies. Unfortunately, I get to see most of them at the moment as a result of my work. On the other hand, they do provide me plenty of material for therapeutic rantage such as this :)
I am sorta wondering on your thoughts on the Thing well the new one. I've gotta say I enjoyed the movie although it was predictable and used way moreCG effects than needed. Still I enjoyed the movie.
- into a much more serious space where I think it can sit quite happily. I was luck enough to do some work on an un-released doc horror almost 8 years ago now. I am proud of my input on the style, working much like BW many of the actors were unaware of what would happen, it was a documentary in a documentary of sorts as we had young archaeology and history students talking real facts about closed gold min shafts that litter the Australian outback here, it added that real authenticity.
I'm rather jealous; I'd love to be involved with a found footage docu horror in some way, shape or form. As you say, the big problem now is that the market is so utterly saturated with them, attempting to sell one convincingly is tricky. So much of them relies on fomentation of atmosphere. Personally, I'd love to see one as well crafted and brilliantly advertised as The Blair Witch Project again, which people genuinely believe is composed of real footage.
Documentary horror is such an odd beast in that unlike any other type of film,so much of its importance stems from its exposure or lack thereof at times, its created mythos and hearsay around its concepts. I like it as a genre because of that, it pushes away from just being about what is on the screen, and although it can be gimmicky in that regard, it can be deviously clever also. I enjoyed apollo 18 I thin because it pulled away from the usual college kids trope and pushed doc. horror -
i live with professional ghost hunters (oxy moron?) who claim to have seen intelligent, luminescent orbs and clouds trying to form human figures in midair. you would never take your rant hat off.
You're absolutely right; I'd be spitting feathes :) I've accompanied self proclaimed "pofessional ghost huntes" on a number of their little investigations, and all I've ever experienced is people very deliberately interpreting common or garden phenomena as things they aren't. "What's that noise?!" It's a floorboard creaking. Old houses do that. "What's that?!?" It's a moth. And so on and so forth.
@ExaggeratedElegy the only "ghost" hunt I've been on, in a large cemetery, produced nothing but random buzzing on random, inexplicable electronic devices, one rather frightened skunk, and a guy with a backpack who probably just got off work, or was heading in for his shift. They didn't stop talking about him for days, convinced that "nobody would walk through a graveyard like that."
Haven't seen it yet, but I likely will. For all my criticisms of P.A., I do think they are generally competent movies; they just don't sell me as documentary horror movies.
Noroi: The Curse take the cake for best found footage horror film. The way that they entwine fake TV footage, and interviews was brilliant and it contains some of the scariest images I've seen in film.
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George, more frequent long social/philosophical issue discussion videos please! You're the best for such types of videos on You Tube! I'm waiting, and I will be checking your channel weekly! Don't let me down! You have a big fan!
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sripathyakasrip 4 months ago
Watch Trollhunter. It's not horror but it's definitely fun.
jiidee 4 months ago
@jiidee
Hey thee Jii,
I really like the look of Trollhunter; heard great things about it. Definitely one I'm going to check out!
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
"I advise you to [see it]... just to see how utterly dreadful it is for yourselves. I defy anyone to be even remotely scared by this movie."
I think I'll just take your word that it's crap and not waste my time. There are only so many hours in my life, and I'll choose to learn from the time you wasted on it instead of doubling down on the waste.
renegade4dio 4 months ago
@renegade4dio
Hey there Todd,
Sometimes life is too short for terrible movies. Unfortunately, I get to see most of them at the moment as a result of my work. On the other hand, they do provide me plenty of material for therapeutic rantage such as this :)
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
I am sorta wondering on your thoughts on the Thing well the new one. I've gotta say I enjoyed the movie although it was predictable and used way moreCG effects than needed. Still I enjoyed the movie.
grimmviper 4 months ago
@grimmviper
Oooh, that's got to be a video, and it will involve full and furious use of the rant hat :)
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
the only thing that scared me is that they would even think to use a $5 cgi effect in a F*CKING DOCUMENTERY
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@kilsya1
I know! I just couldn;t believe anyone making a found footage docu horror would even conceive of using cheap C.G. effects!
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
@ExaggeratedElegy atleast they didn't use some crappy teen acto.....oh shit they did!
kilsya1 4 months ago
i liked it. the whole trapped idea was cool.
Reuseable1 4 months ago
- into a much more serious space where I think it can sit quite happily. I was luck enough to do some work on an un-released doc horror almost 8 years ago now. I am proud of my input on the style, working much like BW many of the actors were unaware of what would happen, it was a documentary in a documentary of sorts as we had young archaeology and history students talking real facts about closed gold min shafts that litter the Australian outback here, it added that real authenticity.
damnyouhussies 4 months ago
@damnyouhussies
I'm rather jealous; I'd love to be involved with a found footage docu horror in some way, shape or form. As you say, the big problem now is that the market is so utterly saturated with them, attempting to sell one convincingly is tricky. So much of them relies on fomentation of atmosphere. Personally, I'd love to see one as well crafted and brilliantly advertised as The Blair Witch Project again, which people genuinely believe is composed of real footage.
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
Documentary horror is such an odd beast in that unlike any other type of film,so much of its importance stems from its exposure or lack thereof at times, its created mythos and hearsay around its concepts. I like it as a genre because of that, it pushes away from just being about what is on the screen, and although it can be gimmicky in that regard, it can be deviously clever also. I enjoyed apollo 18 I thin because it pulled away from the usual college kids trope and pushed doc. horror -
damnyouhussies 4 months ago
i live with professional ghost hunters (oxy moron?) who claim to have seen intelligent, luminescent orbs and clouds trying to form human figures in midair. you would never take your rant hat off.
325982668 4 months ago
@325982668
You're absolutely right; I'd be spitting feathes :) I've accompanied self proclaimed "pofessional ghost huntes" on a number of their little investigations, and all I've ever experienced is people very deliberately interpreting common or garden phenomena as things they aren't. "What's that noise?!" It's a floorboard creaking. Old houses do that. "What's that?!?" It's a moth. And so on and so forth.
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
@ExaggeratedElegy the only "ghost" hunt I've been on, in a large cemetery, produced nothing but random buzzing on random, inexplicable electronic devices, one rather frightened skunk, and a guy with a backpack who probably just got off work, or was heading in for his shift. They didn't stop talking about him for days, convinced that "nobody would walk through a graveyard like that."
325982668 4 months ago
Love your videos EE.
bishop8000 4 months ago
@bishop8000
Many thanks :) Love making 'em.
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
Orbs of ectoplasm... attack!
*covers you in dust*
CuriousMoth 4 months ago
@CuriousMoth
*achoo.* Actually, I kinda like dust :) It lends atmosphere to a room :)
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
I am halfway through. If I hear the words "quit", "fucking" and "around" again I am going to slit my own wrists in a bathtub!!!
corpsemunger 4 months ago
@corpsemunger
Oh believe me, it gets worse.
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
REC is just insane and REC2 isn't too shabby either.
demokratorkodo 4 months ago
@demokratorkodo
I loved the original REC. Now that's how to do a docu horror!
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
I can hear the ice cream truck in the back ground
I also looke dup grave encounters, and i agree, its shit. Reminds me of when i first got my DSi and was contorting some photo's freakishly.
Raxoris 4 months ago
@Raxoris
XD That's exactly it! All I could think of whilst I was watching it is: I've seen people do better effects than this on YouTube.
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago
The third paranormal was actually pretty good. I don't know if you've seen it yet, though. I liked it.
kinshirodan001 4 months ago
@kinshirodan001
Haven't seen it yet, but I likely will. For all my criticisms of P.A., I do think they are generally competent movies; they just don't sell me as documentary horror movies.
George
ExaggeratedElegy 4 months ago