Notable Cast: Shelley
Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney
Halverson, Heather Sossaman
Although the found footage genre of horror has essentially
seen its 15 minutes of fame come and go, it’s a genre that will never be lost
for all of the same reasons that it grew to be a juggernaut of style. It’s
cheap to make and it is an easy way for an audience to put themselves in the
shoes of the characters. Those are two things that horror films feed on. Now, more
recently as technology advances, found footage has more opportunities to take
different angles as the same style. Instead of mockumentaries or found tapes/records
that are showcased in a narrative style, we have films like the Unfriended series. Sacrificing the shaky
cam panic of a cameraman on the run from whatever horrors await them, Unfriended takes a slick and
occasionally clever spin on the in-the-moment horror. Its narrative is told
completely from the screen capture of a computer. It’s as straight forward as that.