Why Found Footage Refuses to Die

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Every few years a critic writes the obituary. Found footage is exhausted, cynical, a gimmick that ran out of road somewhere around the third Paranormal Activity. The shaky camera has become a punchline; the “why is he still filming?” complaint has hardened into received wisdom. And then a film like Host arrives, shot over lockdown on Zoom for a rumoured budget you could raise from a jam-jar of loose change, and the form is suddenly alive again, doing something no other kind of horror can. The corpse keeps sitting up. It is worth asking why the burial never takes.

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Why Found Footage Refuses to Die