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5 Of The Best And Worst Recent Found Footage Movies

With the release of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones recently behind us, and with upcoming found footage movies like Devil's Due and Paranormal Activity 5 on the horizon, there seems to be no end for this subgenre in sight. From a studio standpoint, why should there be? Found footage movies are often cheaper to make, they can be tremendous financial successes, and the gamble factor is much lower - but for ever properly executed first-person POV film cranked out The Blair Witch style, there's ten other films made by a group of ill-advised get-rich-quick filmmakers who brought a handheld camera into the woods. Hollywood - if you're going to keep making found footage movies, can you at least do it right?
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Best – Europa Report

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Found footage movies are usually resigned to the horror genre, so the hard sci-fi Europa Report deserves some credit simply for existing. The film, which follows a crew of astronauts on a mission to the titular moon of Jupiter in search of life, is one of the most painstakingly accurate sci-fi flicks in recent memory. That accuracy, coupled with a faux-documentary format that heavily utilizes on-board cameras and crew interviews, sells the film as a highly realistic movie about space exploration.

That’s all well and good, but the real strength of Europa Report is how, despite the confines of found footage, director Sebastián Cordero slowly builds an atmosphere of almost suffocating dread. It would have been easy to fall back on the hard science behind the story, but Cordero goes one step further, adapting the found footage format to subtly communicate the heart-in-mouth anxieties of deep space travel, dwelling on long silences and crawling seconds of uncertainty. Without the found footage aspect, Europa Report could have dissolved into another lame sci-fi flick, but the limitations keep it grounded, thrilling and utterly absorbing.

Being a smaller film, many of you may have missed it, so I’m including the trailer below so you can get an idea of what it’s all about.


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