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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