horror films
A Small Screen Blair Witch Project Series is in the Works at LionsGate!
LionsGate’s new digital distribution arm (dubbed Studio L) has announced an episodic series based on The Blair Witch Project (1999). The show will likely be released in the digital space, as the focus of Studio L is feature films and episodic content for that market. Little else is known about the planned small screen adaptation at this point, but stay tuned to Found Footage Critic for more ...
Descent into Darkness: My European Nightmare Poised for Big Screen Debut
Descent into Darkness: My European Nightmare will make its long-awaited big screen debut this weekend at The Unnamed Footage Festival. The fest runs from March 24-25. The film is Directed by Rafael Cherkaski. It was written by Quentin Boeton, Simon-Pierre Boireau, and Cherkaski. Descent into Darkness: My European Nightmare follows Sorgoi Prakov (played by Cherkaski) a television cameraman from a f...
Four Found Footage Films People Thought Were Real
By: Alyssa Ethelcrowe Sometimes an audience doesn’t get the memo that a work of fiction is just that. Take Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds (1938), notorious for the panic it caused immediately after its broadcast. It’s obviously fiction now, but that wasn’t so clear to the people who heard the radio drama and flew into a panic. The program presented itself as a news broadcast, often with bulle...
5 Movies That Could Benefit From a Found Footage Remake
Remakes will never stop being a lucrative trend in horror. Even if the output might not reach the insane heights it did during the 2000s, stories have been being told and retold on the screen since the birth of cinema. Not every remake is successful, of course. Some are bland rehashes of the source material. Others try to go in a different direction but lose sight of what made the original great. ...
4 Things Blair Witch (2016) Got Right
By: Dan Weatherer Sequels are the movie industry’s favourite cash-cow, and a source of trepidation for fans of original IP’s everywhere. It seems to be the trend that if a new film sells well, a sequel will undoubtedly follow. This is especially true with horror movies. I, like many others, was wary of another attempt at a sequel to The Blair Witch Project (1999); arguably the movie which launched...
Hell House LLC Director’s Cut DVD – Own the DVD Now!
On October 1st, Hell House LLC fans were rewarded for their patience with the release of the Hell House LLC: Director’s Cut DVD. This special edition of Hell House LLC is a DVD-only release assembled by director Stephen Cognetti. The DVD contains an extended length version of the film, director’s commentary audio track, and almost 30 minutes of bonus material. The extras include an ins...
The Monster Project (2017) – Found Footage Movie Trailer #2
The Monster Project (2017) – Found Footage Movie Trailer – Film Synopsis Found footage film where a recovering drug addict takes a job with a documentary crew who plans to interview three subjects who claim to be real life monsters. The Monster Project (2017) – Found Footage Movie Trailer The Monster Project (2017) is a found footage horror Movie How We Critique and Rate Found Fo...
Halloween is Coming Early: Hell House LLC Director’s Cut DVD and Planned Sequel
Found footage fans and Halloween haunt enthusiasts were graced with Hell House LLC, a found footage film and runaway hit covering the weeks leading up to the opening night of a haunted house attraction in upstate New York. Those who have seen the footage still writhe from the tragedy that unfolded on the night of October 8, 2009. As often happens in the world of found footage films, invariably, mo...
Hell House LLC 2: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)
The dark history and secrets behind the Abaddon Hotel are revealed in the gripping sequel to Hell House LLC.
