Found-Footage.com Team

This piece expands on our original German review — updated and rewritten for our English audience. This is the one. The film that started it all — or at least, the film that made the rest of this site possible. Before The Blair Witch Project, found footage was a curiosity, a technique that existed at the fringes. After it, the genre was unstoppable. Hundreds of films, dozens of imitators, an entir...[Read More]

I’d been looking forward to this one for weeks. After Die Präsenz, Daniele Grieco had earned the benefit of the doubt — that film proved that German found footage could punch well above its weight. The question was whether he could do it again with completely different material. Aliens instead of ghosts. Forest instead of haunted house. Science fiction dread instead of supernatural atmospher...[Read More]

Seventeen years. That’s how long it took for the Black Hills Forest to get a worthy successor. Not Book of Shadows — let’s agree to never speak of that again — but a genuine continuation of what Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez started in 1999. When Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett were handed the keys to one of found footage’s most sacred properties, the expectations were enormou...[Read More]

This review isan updated and translated version of our 2016 German review of Five: Find Your Limit, which was originally published on found-footage.de (now .com/de). The idea is a good one. Five people walk into an abandoned hospital for the night. They don’t know what’s going to happen. The director knows. The actors don’t. Somewhere in that gap between scripted chaos and genuin...[Read More]

This review expands on our original German review from 2016 — updated and rewritten for our English audience a decade on. Alien found footage is a surprisingly thin subgenre. Given how well the format works — shaky camera, no explanations, the intimacy of a handheld lens pointed at something that shouldn’t exist — you’d think filmmakers would have mined the UFO mythology more aggressiv...[Read More]