Admit it, found footage films are a bit predictable. But why are the scares so damn horrific in [REC]? Think back to the first found footage movie you ever saw in theaters. Something is unsettling about being locked into the perspective of the camera. You are being forced to follow jarring camera movements as the space around you becomes smaller and smaller with each scare. A good found footage film will either get a good scare out of you, or you just throw up from motion sickness. These films have become predictable and often waste the audience's time trying to force us to care about obscure situations that are out of touch with reality. But [REC] isn’t like the rest. It stands proudly over the others because it finds horror in the thing we despise the most—isolation. Ryan Hollinger breaks down what makes [REC] the best found-footage film of all time (sorry, The Blair Witch Project). Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 5 March, 2021