10 Horror Movies Where Evil Wins

2. Virtually Every Found Footage Movie

Afford me a moment to play with your imagination here. Place yourself as one of the protagonists in a found footage movie. In fact, let's go the whole hog with this and place yourself in your favourite found footage movie as the person holding the camera. You're Hud in Cloverfield, you're Pablo in Rec, you're the woman with the leaky nose in Blair Witch.

Now imagine things turn out differently and, after your misadventures, you are safely and soundly returned home. Picture yourself standing in the middle of your house with the camera you've been clinging to during the ordeal still in your hand. Are you going to sit down and start to compile the footage, thus reliving the horrors you've just witnessed?

No, you're very obviously not going to do that.

You're going to either erase the footage or just simply stick the entire camera immediately into the toilet, and bash it with the plunger until it fits around the U-bend. Found footage movies only really work when evil has won, characters are dead, and the footage is, literally, found. Not politely handed over.