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Is this movie the death nail for found footage movies?

posted 8 years ago by allenja7
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I only bring it up because the run up to this movie was over the top, and I want to say sort of played on nostalgia, after its release the Blair Witch is not mentioned or makes any critical list for the year. However since the original came out in 99, has cinema reached its peak with these movies with the genre reaching its peak with the Paranormal Activity movies, which seems like they were cranked out about one a year. I think the oversaturation of found movies might have impacted this movie, mainly because audiences are most likely growing tired of them. The sad thing is that the over all storyline to these movies is actually good, however it gets lost in the mix when you throw in the found footage angle, I would like to see a straight horror movie about the Blair With or Paranormal Activity, I think it would play to audiences a little better. I think the idea of found footage is going by the way side with audiences growing tired of the genre

[–] tizerist 8 years ago

This movie has reinvigorated the genre.
There will be more Blair Witch movies now

[–] CHplanb 8 years ago

I sure as hell hope not.

[–] droidX 8 years ago

It's probably not completely over yet but it's near. There will likely be a few more to come out but it won't be nearly as many. Hollywood will soon find another format or sub genre of horror to exploit. Though I suspect around the 2030's, found footage will get a second wave of popularity.

[–] gstards 8 years ago

This next sub genre of horror you're talking about should be horror fantasy, seriously. This one is such an underestimated and unexploited space in horror, that people would be blown away by its spectacularity and consternation it may cause. Especially Lovecraft. All it takes is a visionary director who doesn't afraid to go deep in dark concepts, that's why, maybe, it wasn't used widely before. But soon directors will look up to that, I'm sure. Plus, horror fantasy opens the doors to the blockbuster type of horrors like The Conjuring. Just imagine: Call of Ctulhu filmed on IMAX cameras, with the image expanding on the whole screen while Ctulhu is awakening. Of The Mountains of Madness with its crazy atmosphere flowing down the screen right on the audience. We have the proves that R-rated movies can grab more money that some might expect (Deadpool), so the fear of the studios to loose money should not be the case.

From the lowest budgets in pseudo-documentaries, we go right to the highest ones in horror fantasy. This would be amazing (and logical).

Nolan, I love you forever!

[–] IMDbGigalo 8 years ago

(and logical).

No, it wouldn't. With few exceptions, horror movies don't take in hundreds of millions which is what it would take to make something like that bankable.

That's why FF will probably never die out. It's cheap as hell to make.

[–] gstards 8 years ago

But its box-office showings has fall drastically since the dawn of a FF era. And the films like The Conjuring shows that horror movies can gross big money, and that only with regular theaters. Imagine what the film way more spectacular visually would gross with extra-prices of IMAX and D-Box.

Nolan, I love you forever!

[–] IMDbGigalo 8 years ago

I'm not talking about coolness. I'm talking about risk assessment. It would likely take 100M at the very least to do Del Toro's Mountains of Madness script. Would you bank on a R-rated horror movie making 400M? I sure wouldn't.

[–] gstards 8 years ago

R-rating would not be a factor, cause there would not be any serious nudity, and the majority of R-rating would be caused only by the terrifying images and grim themes, so the cinema workers would still allow teenagers to see the movie, just like with Deadpool. The horror, yes, might be a factor in downgrading the chances, but they can simply avoid its negative impact by promoting the movie as a dark fantasy instead of saying it's a horror right away. But it would still be a horror. Get it?

Nolan, I love you forever!

[–] mgreen9715 8 years ago

No.

They'll keep making them because regardless of what the crybaby bitches on here say, they still sell and have a nice sized fanbase.

[–] BrunoAntony 8 years ago

Knell