1. No More Found Footage Movies
While it is not the first found footage movie (that would be Cannibal Holocaust) The Blair Witch Project was the first to be both a critical and financial success, and has gone on to be one of the most influential horror movies of all time. I can still remember looking forward to seeing it after being told it was terrifying. Then I saw it. To say I was disappointed would be like saying the internet kind of like cats. However, there is no denying that since then it seems that every second horror movie is a group of people stumbling over something supernatural and deciding to film everything instead of running away. Yet some like REC and The Last Exorcism are really good, and VHS and in particular VHS 2 have found great success using the found footage style to revive the anthology genre. But most have been terrible, mainly due to the fact that filmmakers have used the same repetitive film style, severely limiting how the movie can be directed and forcing it to follow the same plot beats. Typically, the film tends to be about a person who notices something supernatural, and instead of running away like a sane person insists on documenting the increasingly sinister situation they are in until it's too late to escape. Filmmakers should consider going back to the old school horror style of The Shining, The Amityville Horror as seen in The Conjuring, which while clichéd focuses on atmosphere, location and compelling characters to tell a scary story. So that's what I think. What do you think? Feel free to comment!