Found footage the movie equivalent of epistolary novels ? (spoilers)

I was wondering if anyone had picked up on this. The original Dracula story by Bram Stoker was an epistolary novel, which is essentially found written documents (real or not, in this case not) conveniently rearranged for our reading pleasure. This style just like found footage movies imposes a lot of constraints on the scope and structure of your narrative, and admittedly requires a stronger suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience. I've personnally never been a fan of the genre, finding it too far-fetched. But to each his own.

Anyway do you think they chose this style consciously as an hommage or reference to the original Dracula or do you think it was just a happy accident ? Obviously found footage movies are all the rage these days and relatively cheap to produce. But it seems kinda fitting that if you're going to do a true vampire movie you should do it in this style.