10 Essential Found Footage Horrors To Watch Before Blair Witch

Documenting The Grey Man is cheap and amateurish, but it’s also savvy enough to have as its protagonists a film crew who're introduced discussing the ease with which footage can be faked in these kinds of films. They want to expose the whole charade with a bogus 'documentary' on The Grey Man, an apparition whose sudden appearance portends a coming hurricane.

Unfortunately, some static scenes and characters who just look like actors reciting their lines means it loses its grip around the twenty-minute mark, after which all it has up its sleeve are the usual humdrum clichés: to camera confessionals, scenes shot using night vision, off-screen screaming and bookending captions proclaiming the footage "authentic". There's even a cute little girl being levitated by the ghost, although how this ties in with its meteorological proclivities is never fully explained.

In true Blair Witch fashion, the film's biggest !*$% is also its first proper casualty, in this case a 'medium' who gets a dose of the real thing while attempting to communicate with the dead. There's also a homage to/rip-off of REC's famed shot of a female character being dragged off-screen, but of course the movie ain't over until the last man standing drops the camera.