Film: Creep Starring: Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass Directed By: Patrick Brice I have never seen a found footage film quite like Creep, but I always wanted to. It’s a combination of horror, drama, and comedy that is so tightly wound that you never know what to expect from one moment to the next. Credit for […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Creep’ Is Incredibly Unsettling
June 25th, 2015 
James Shotwell 
Posted in Features, Movies, News, Reviews 
Tags: creep, Creep 2014, Creep 2015, Creep Horror Movie, found footage, horror, mark duplass, Movie Reviews, movies, Patrick Brice, POV, Reviews, Serial Killers 
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Drunk Wedding’ Offers Cheap POV Laughs
May 28th, 2015 James Shotwell Film: Drunk Wedding Starring: Nick P. Ross, J.R. Ramirez Directed by: Nick Weiss Having suffered through well over a decade of increasingly mindless found footage horror that is typically far too shaky for most audiences to thoroughly enjoy, Drunk Wedding has arrived as proof that POV filmmaking can also be funny. If there was ever […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Area 51’ Should Remain Off Limits
May 19th, 2015 James Shotwell Film: Area 51 Starring: Ben Rovner, Jelena Nik Directed by: Oren Peli The premise is good enough: Following a strange encounter after a night of drinking with his two best friends, a young man convinces the same friends to join him on a quest to see what secrets lie on the base of the ever-mysterious […]
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SXSW MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Hangman’ Is An Effectively Creepy Twist On Found Footage
March 21st, 2015 James Shotwell Film: Hangman Starring: Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield Directed by: Adam Mason Following a family vacation to parts unknown, The Miller family returns home to find someone has burglarized their house. Nothing seems to be missing, but even after they clean up the family cannot help feeling like something is not quite right. What audiences know […]
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Ariana Grande’s “One Last Time” Video Is Basically A Found Footage Short!
February 16th, 2015 James Shotwell Still riding high off the success of her 2014 album release, Ariana Grande has shared a new video built on the aesthetics of low budget science fiction. If you listen to pop radio, or even if you know someone who listens to radio on a semi-regular basis when you’re around, there is a pretty decent […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Project Almanac’ Is Found Footage Fun
January 30th, 2015 Sam Cohen Film: Project Almanac Directed By: Dean Israelite Starring: Jonny Weston, Sofia Black D’Elia, Sam Lerner Teenage hormones are abound in this Michael Bay-produced effort about a group of young’ns grappling with the dangers of time travel. Adopting the found footage aesthetic of many features, Project Almanac attempts and mostly succeeds at taking something weary in […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Pyramid’ Is A Fun, Yet Familiar Thrill Ride
December 5th, 2014 James Shotwell Film: The Pyramid Starring: Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O’Hare Directed by: Grégory Levasseur Capping off what can only be described as one of the worst years for mainstream horror in the last decade, 20th Century Fox has delivered a fun, yet familiar thrill ride with The Pyramid. It’s August 2013 and the streets of Cairo are […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Possession Of Michael King’ Is Thoroughly Unsettling
September 5th, 2014 James Shotwell Film: The Possession Of Michael King Starring: Shane Johnson, Ella Anderson Directed by: David Jung If you have seen one movie with a title that begins with The Possession Of… then you have seen them all, right? If you had asked me that very question a week ago I might have agreed without a second […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘As Above, So Below’ Is Just Another Found Footage Dud
August 30th, 2014 James Shotwell Film: As Above, So Below Starring: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman Directed by: John Erick Dowdle There is a moment fifteen or twenty minutes into As Above, So Below when it seems as if the film will finally be the long awaited title that raises the bar for found footage across the board. For a few […]
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Found Footage Terror ‘The Poughkeepsie Tapes’ Finally Arrives On VOD
July 20th, 2014 James Shotwell 2008 was a long time ago. Obama was still campaigning for the hearts of American voters, pop-influenced hardcore bands were more of a rare treat than an ever-present menace on music, and found footage was still something akin to a ‘cool’ subgenre in the world of horror. It was around this same time that a […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Sx_Tape’
May 19th, 2014 James Shotwell Film: Sx_Tape Starring: Ian Duncan, Caitlyn Folley Directed By: Bernard Rose It is almost impossible to believe that the found footage genre made it almost a decade into its existence before a film blending haunted abandon places and poorly filmed sex scenes was given a large scale marketing effort to try and cash in on […]
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‘Delivery’ Trailer: Guess Who’s Having Satan’s Baby
April 23rd, 2014 James Shotwell The film industry is a crazy place where the first person to develop an idea is not always the first person to share that idea with mainstream America. Just because your film was in production first does not guarantee it will see release first. At least, not in a way that will matter once a […]
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