Found Footage Horror Films

<p> As the horror subgenre <I>du jour</I> found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.</p><p> <I>Found Footage Horror Films</I> explores the subgenre's stylistic historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond <I>Man Bites Dog</I> (1992) and <I>Cannibal Holocaust</I> (1980) paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s the snuff-fictions of the 1970s and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of <I>The Blair Witch Project</I> (1999) and <I>Paranormal Activity</I> (2007) and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.</p>