10 Found Footage Movies That Are Actually Worth Your Time
9. The Bay
A thinking-man's ecological horror story told retrospectively through an anonymously "leaked" government video, The Bay answers the question: What if Judgment Day is real, but Skynet is actually just a bunch of water-borne parasites created because humans are too lazy to stop polluting the earth?
Stitched together from an investigative journalist's research, various residents' home video footage, as well as security and traffic cams from around the seaside town the film takes place in, The Bay achieves a refreshing continuity in its execution. Because the viewer isn't beholden to any one perspective, the story can come at you from all sides.
It also comes at you with bugs. And mutant crustaceans. And more creepy-crawlies than you'd ever want to encounter in your lifetime.
The scares aren't quite as strong or as surprising as you'd expect from a found footage horror flick, but makes up for it with a thick air of tension that never really lets up, even in the face of some shaky acting from the film's peripheral characters. It might not keep you out of the ocean like Jaws, but it might make you run out to by an expensive water purifier.