When You Find Footage, You Find True Horror. And I'm Not Just ...
Posted by hollywould on Oct 5, 2012
My family was never big on the whole ‘home movie’ thing. For one thing, I think my parents were afraid their illegal hamster breeding operation would be caught in the background and used against them when I eventually testified against them in court (smart, as charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence). The other reason is that there’s nothing creepier than old-looking, out-of-context footage of families together. That’s one of the reasons found-footage horror movies scare the pants off me. Literally. Not sure how it happens, but they always end up in a pile by the door by the time the movie’s over. People simply watching grainy, scratchy footage is enough to send me into a horror coma. That’s why I’ve had to watch all the trailers of Sinister
