Why does "garbage" footage hack your brain? Because polish means fiction, and imperfection means documentation.

Hollywood trained you to feel safe in the "hero shot." Found footage uses exhausted tremors and failed framing to signal one thing: nobody staged this.

Class is in session at Horror University. We are dismantling the Psychological Breach.

🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/macabretavern/p/blurring-reality-how-found-footage

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The Horror University is open.

This month, we’re going to talk about a genre that either is brilliant or completely shits the bed. FOUND FOOTAGE

Tell me what your favorite found footage film is, and some of you will end up in an article at the end of the month!

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