4. Lunopolis (2009)
--> Theres nothing out there thats really like Lunopolis i and thats a very good thing. It means that genre hounds looking for a fix of wild originality can sit back and eat up the movie without mucking through worn-out tropes. Instead of horror, Lunopolis looks at conspiracy theory science fiction, blending time travel and mockumentary with an convincing and complex mythology that incorporates clandestine groups, high profile religious sects, UFO prophecies, and steam-punk fantasies about cities on the moon. --> One normal narrative couldnt hold all of this insanity and still hope to be taken seriously, but the found footage venue allows filmmaker Matthew J Avant to play around with the concept of multiple realities and dimensions by using small inconsistencies and adjustments to the camera techniques to suggest subtle shifts in perception and being. Theres a cinéma vérité approach to the way the history of Lunopolis and its mad prophet Ari Hilliard play out, and a backwoods believer played by Dave Potter gives the outrageous Moon city story its fair share of gravity and force. Playing like Dark City meets Flash Gordon meets The X-Files, Lunopolis completely takes the audience aback with just how fantastical and sincerely screwy it is willing to go. Avant and company shame the usual FF participants who can barely summon mangy monsters in the dark by testing the very fabric of the universe with little more than a hand-held camcorder.