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The 25 Best Found-Footage Horror Movies
The Blair Witch Project didn’t invent the genre, but it did give it a name.
Not surprisingly, Bobcat Goldthwait brings a lightly comic touch to the early scenes of a couple (Bryce Johnson and Alexie Gilmore) attempting to make a documentary about bigfoot lore — a premise that allows the comedian-turned-director to play with the hiccups and false starts of an amateur nonfiction production, as well to indulge his own interest in sasquatchalia. There’s a case to be made that the third film in the low-budget, highly lucrative Paranormal Activity series is the best of them all, and that has less to do with its story — a 1980s-set prequel that shows how the sibling heroines of the previous movies first provoked the angry spirits as little girls — than the way Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman play with the formal formula of the franchise. While the most kinetic of the quartet finds Blair Witch co-director Eduardo Sánchez doing Night of the Living Dead through a mountain biker’s helmet camera, the true cream of the crop is Safe Haven, a blistering blast of occult horror from Gareth Evans, the Welsh action junkie behind The Raid.
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