[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B003YXZH5S][/pullquote] Horror as a film genre, can be broken down into many sub-genres. It could be Science-Fiction-Horror, Slasher-Horror or Torture-Porn-Horror to name but a few. One of the most recent additions to the sub-genres is the ˜found footage horror' … [Read more...]
Review: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005A5YYUM][/pullquote] In March 2005, Katie (Katie Featherston) discovers a box of videotapes belonging to her grandmother that she leaves in her sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden) basement. The next year, after a burglary the tapes are stolen. The audience is then … [Read more...]
Review: Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B004EMS0XO][/pullquote] Paranormal Activity was a sensation upon release in 2009. Off a shoe-string budget of $15,000, Oren Peli was able to create a terrifying ˜found footage' film that drew on the mega-success of The Blair Witch Project and move the horror zeitgeist … [Read more...]
Review: Paranormal Activity (2009)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B0030IMZ3O][/pullquote] In 2007, director Oren Peli, on a shoe-string budget of $15,000, created a found footage horror film called Paranormal Activity. He, like so many film-makers had struggled to find someone to take a chance on him and distribute the film. … [Read more...]
Review: Apollo 18 (2011)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B005PNYJJ0][/pullquote] The found footage genre of film-making was first created in 1980 with shock horror Cannibal Holocaust. However it wasn't until The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999 that it became a regular story-telling device. Usually used as a means … [Read more...]