This October, Variety enlisted some our favorite spooky content creators to share their scary movie essentials. Joseph and Vanessa Winter, whose film “Deadstream” made a splash on the festival circuit ...

Mike Smith, Michael Parkinson, and Sarah Greene standing in front of a screen made of many little screens that read "Ghostwatch" in Ghostwatch, Dane DeHaan as Andrew Detmer sitting cross-legged and ...

Now in its tenth year, the Found Footage Film Festival is more than just an annual showcase of the oddest oddities of America’s VHS heritage. It’s also a kind of educational program. In this year’s ...

Horror has multiple subgenres, each with its notable classics and devoted fanbases. But with the turn of the 21st century, hardly any subgenre made quite a splash as found footage. Since The Blair ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Blair Witch Project sparked a found footage craze in cinema. In the years that followed its ...

Found footage films may seem simpler to shoot than traditional productions, but the format often requires an even more ...

The minute fans hear “found footage,” they jump to the big names of the genre — The Blair Witch Project comes to mind. Now, a new film has emerged that will challenge what a found footage film can do: ...

An excerpt from 'Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse' digs into 'Sinister,' a key early success for the studio. Reading time 8 minutes Blumhouse is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and ...

Joel Medina spent his life devouring all things pop culture - for better and worse (he watched Final Destination way too young). Born and raised in LA County, he spent his summers watching every movie ...

Seeing as the film arguably predates the start of the found footage boom, that makes Rec something of a pioneering effort, not to mention a zombie picture that hits all the right notes. Plaza and ...

Ten years ago, M. Night Shyamalan was coming off such an extraordinary cold streak that a small-scale, found-footage thriller seemed like a major retreat. Instead, it wound up jumpstarting an ...