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So, The Blair Witch has been a major success at the box office; a revitalization for a horror classic of dubious merit that no one really expected to be a franchise. With everyone now caught up in found footage mania, it’s the perfect time to talk about my favorite entries in the genre and the top 7 found footage horror flicks I would recommend to newcomers interested in the style.
I get that a lot of folks are kind of allergic to found footage horror, but I think that’s mainly because the found footage names tend to be the worst examples of the genre, stuff like Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity. For every one of those flat, paint by numbers haunted house found footage features there are at least 3 weird, high-concept horror offerings that only manage to work because of the crutch afforded them by the found footage structure, and today we honor them.
