10 Annoying Problems With Found Footage Movies

10. Who's Editing This Footage?

Here’s a question every found footage movie hopes the audience isn’t asking: who exactly is editing this footage together and presenting it to you?

With a lot of these films, this is apparently supposed to be footage directly from the camera. Yet there are clearly edits all throughout, with movie-like timing and cuts between scenes where it doesn’t make sense for the person to have just stopped recording. Sometimes there are even things added into the film in editing, like time stamps, title cards and music, so within the movie’s reality, there’s obviously an editor that combed through the tape and is presenting it to the audience.

But barely any of these movies ever address this (unless they're in the style of a fake documentary), and that creates a weird disconnect. Someone is obviously editing the footage, yet they don’t take out bits that clearly don’t need to be there, such as the scenes of characters just sitting around by the pool talking. So by the movie's logic, was this footage of people’s actual deaths acquired by some film studio that then hired an editor to piece it together into a scary movie? If so, that’s almost more messed up than anything in the actual films.