But that small screen is merely a vessel for an endless world of horrifying possibilities.Ī shining example of those possibilities is seen in Rob Savage’s Host.

Films such as Unfriended, Megan is Missing, and The Den venture into the digital world, confining their stories to the screen of a laptop upon which viewers are given a glimpse of unfolding terrors. With the advent of the Internet, live streaming, Snapchat, and video chatting platforms, the found footage subgenre has now evolved to be more than just shaky handheld cameras - and more than just found footage. As our obsession with filming the world around us grows, so do the potential avenues for found footage horror. In Afflicted, vlogging is used to document and upload the realtime transformation of a man into a vampire. In JeruZalem, apocalyptic horrors are captured via Google Glass. With the Paranormal Activity franchise, surveillance cameras and static frames became a way to capture the supernatural. Found footage horror is a subgenre that, through the first-person perspective, has been able to articulate our complex and ever-changing relationship with technology.

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