Found footage movies have one rule but holy sh** is it boring and conformist to not see it broken.
This could've been to found footage what cabin in the woods was to horror.
Being a subversion of the genre might be most poignant when the movie itself adheres to all the rules of the genre itself and thus manages to be a great member of the genre in addition to being a good parody.
However this isnt the case when the rules themselves are strenuously dumb to uphold. Like a found footage cameraman being blind to the found footage genre.
And besides even Cabin in the Woods broke some horror rules to surprise us.
This would have been a much better movie with a "twist" ending of there not being a twist. The final 8 minutes robbed at least two stars from this movie imo.
This could've been to found footage what cabin in the woods was to horror.
Being a subversion of the genre might be most poignant when the movie itself adheres to all the rules of the genre itself and thus manages to be a great member of the genre in addition to being a good parody.
However this isnt the case when the rules themselves are strenuously dumb to uphold. Like a found footage cameraman being blind to the found footage genre.
And besides even Cabin in the Woods broke some horror rules to surprise us.
This would have been a much better movie with a "twist" ending of there not being a twist. The final 8 minutes robbed at least two stars from this movie imo.