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Rank: Your Top 10 Best Found-Footage Movies


My Rank:

1. Paranormal Activity 2
2. Cloverfield
3. Paranormal Activity 4
4. Grave Encounters
5. Paranormal Activity 1
6. Atrocious
7. Quarantine

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1. Cannibal Holocaust. (The origin of the genre!)
2. REC.
3. V/H/S.
4. Last Broadcast.
5. Cloverfield.
6. Diary of the Dead.


You killed Captain Clown, YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN-The Joker on Batman TAS

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Since I've seen this one now

BWP
PA 3
PA 2
PA 4
PA 1

I've seen PA Entity, but that doesn't count.

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apart from rec, that is obviously the best, i like the fourth kind a lot.



"It doesn't matter what Bram Stoker has told you... dead people don't come back from their graves"

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Great:
The Blair Witch Project
The PA Films
REC

At least decent:
Cloverfield
Trollhunter

Kind of ok/not so good:
Grave Encounters

was Chernobyl Diaries found footage? I can't remember, it at least had that feeling to it

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Blair Witch 2. The whole movie revolves around found recordings, and it's a good detective film.

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hands down .Rec & .Rec 2 nothing comes close

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1. The Blair Witch Project
2. Cannibal Holocaust
3. Cloverfield
4. Chronicle
5. [Rec]
6. Trollhunter
7. Paranormal Activity(The Original Cut, With The Original Police Ending)
8. V/H/S
9. [Rec] 2
10. Quarantine


Actually i don't particularly like the movies from 8 and down, but i do find them better than Paranormal Activity 2 - 4, The Last Exorcism, Grave Encounters and Apollo 18 which are the only other found footage movies i have seen.

Edit, saw Trollhunter so have updated my list.

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I'm gonna rank only 5...

1. [REC]
2. Cloverfield
3. The Tunnel (very uderrated gem)
4. PA 1
5. [REC2]

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*English is not my primary langage.

No man bites dog?

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There's been enough rankings in this thread, but if you haven't seen The Bay, give it a watch. My wife and I liked it a lot. Good found footage flick.

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*English is not my primary langage.

Got the Bay here. May give it a try tonight.

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*English is not my primary langage.

The bay was pretty decent, thanks.
Now, I'll go for the tunnel tonight.

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*English is not my primary langage.

As for my list of found footage movies :

Good :
The Blair Witch Project : The father of FF
Megan is missing : Really disturbed me
Chronicle : Underated
Grave Encounters : A must see
Man Bites Dog : Genius
V/H/S : Original
Zero Day : Brutal
Cannibal Holocaust : The grand father of FF
Lake Mungo : Freaky ending
Paranormal Activity : The father of the entities new wave

Meh :
Cloverfield : Letdown
Paranormal Activity 2 : ok
Paranormal Activity 3 : ok
REC : Entertaining
The Bay : Great idea

Bad :
Apollo 18 : Crap
Grave Encounters 2 : Crap
Monster : What a letdown
Paranormal Activity 4 : So many plotholes
The Poughkeepsie Tapes : Ridiculous

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*English is not my primary langage.

Just saw "The tunnel". Boooooooring.

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no real order

rec/rec2
man bites dog
troll hunter
home movie
blair witch project(with special call out to the 3 tv docs)
Paranormal Activity 3
VHS
Lake Mungo
Last Horror Movie
Cannibal Holocaust
Noroi(The curse)
Last Exorcism

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