15 Worthwhile Found Footage Thrillers You've Never Seen
12. Alone With Her (2006)
--> While Alone With Her isnt a traditional thriller in the same sense as the other films on this list, it may achieve the most skin-crawling realism and provoke the most discomfort in our age of inexpensive and abundant surveillance technology. Ahead of his turns in Lucky and Dexter, Colin Hanks delivers as creepy and obsessed Doug, who wants to get with Ana Claudia Talancóns Amy, but just doesnt have the nerve or the social gusto to do much about it. So instead, he breaks into her apartment and installs enough web cams to host his own stalker reality show. As he monitors Amy, he starts coercing events in her life so he can be a part of it, and faster than you can say Peeping Tom, things are sprinting towards crazy.
Director Eric Nicholas doesnt bother to contrive traditional scares, or send his story into typical Lifetime Channel stalker tropes. Instead, hes interested in getting the audience into Dougs headspace and showing us the way his technology has distorted and extrapolated his own misplaced fervor. At first, hes a relatively nice guy whos spent far too much time around computers instead of people, but as his voyeurism gets the best of him, the world on the other side of the camera takes on an amoral fascination.
Not surprisingly, the audience gets brought along for this ride, watching Doug as he watches Amy and feeling particularly helpless for not being able to look away.