Found footage films are all the rage right now with more and more aspiring horror directors opting for the reduced budget and heightened realism offered by using a handheld. Some are effective in their implementation of the found footage concept titles like Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and The Borderlands (a shamefully underwatched horror) were both believable and subsequently terrifying. Others, not so much: in Paranormal Activity 5 were asked to buy into the fact that the familys computers are all simultaneously recording every minute of the day in glorious full HD memory dont come that cheap guys! Though we cannot say it was the original found footage film, The Blair Witch Project was a pivotal title in establishing the norms of the genre weve come to expect today. As it so pioneering and was the first to employ many of the now-established found footage techniques, The Blair Witch Project was all the more terrifying (the terror attainable through a pioneering film will be a recurring theme in this list. The pacing in The Blair Witch Project is tuned as well as a £10-thousand piano the events gradually deteriorate from the creepy yet explainable to the terrifying and other-worldly. By the closing final climax you will likely have been sat there telling yourself that these are all actors and all went to their local together after the final frames were shot.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
