Stars: Jimmy Driscoll, Burt Grinstead, Maureen Keiller, David Nash, Matthew Pilieci, Anna Stromberg, Denise Walker | Written by Burt Grinstead, Anna Stromberg | Directed by Burt Grinstead
I have always been fond of the found footage sub genre in horror. Like most people it all stems from the greatness of The Blair Witch Project and the hype surrounding it. Many movies have tried to replicate both the hype and the movie but very few have even got close – perhaps the Paranormal Activity franchise becoming the most successful.
But now, despite almost everyone having access to a camera in their pocket, found footage horror is in a bit of a lull. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of it about.
The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan takes the route of an amateur film-maker making a documentary about a murder case thirty years before. Not a normal murder though. A particularly gory and gruesome case,...
I have always been fond of the found footage sub genre in horror. Like most people it all stems from the greatness of The Blair Witch Project and the hype surrounding it. Many movies have tried to replicate both the hype and the movie but very few have even got close – perhaps the Paranormal Activity franchise becoming the most successful.
But now, despite almost everyone having access to a camera in their pocket, found footage horror is in a bit of a lull. There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of it about.
The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan takes the route of an amateur film-maker making a documentary about a murder case thirty years before. Not a normal murder though. A particularly gory and gruesome case,...
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- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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