9 Found Footage Fates Worse Than Death
5. Grave Encounters - Embracing Insanity And Lobotomization
Given how the found footage subgenre was one very much associated with serving up dross by the time the 2000s rolled into the 2010s, 2011's Grave Encounters was a proverbial diamond in the rough.
Sure, this Vicious Brothers' vehicle isn't a flawless piece of chilling cinematic perfection, but it is so much better than the majority of similar found footage offerings being served up at that point.
The premise of the picture sees ghost-hunting TV presenter Lance Preston take his crew to the phenomena-laced Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital for the final episode of his 'Grave Encounters' series.
Intending to spend the night at this spooky locale, Preston and his cohorts find themselves trapped in the dark, never-ending corridors of the hospital - with their fate a wince-inducing one.
As Grave Encounters hits its final act, our explorers realise that they've become patients of Collingwood, with some of the group becoming deranged. Literal blood baths and elevator shaft falls befit some of the team, but the worst fate awaits Lance.
Wandering endless tunnels, feeding on rats, Lance stumbles upon an old operating room where he is snatched by a gaggle of demonic nurses and forced to undergo a lobotomy.
Skip ahead to 2012's Grave Encounters 2, and Lance has embraced the insanity and become a murderous beast who stalks yet another film crew exploring the supposed 'set' used for Collingwood.