Found Footage Horror Films That Will Get Under Your Skin - Dabbe: Cin çarpmasi Aka Dabbe : Curse Of The Jinn 2013

Dabbe: Curse of the Jinn

Dabbe: Curse of the Jinn is a 2013 Turkish horror film directed and written by Hasan Karacadağ.

Preparing for her wedding, Kübra gets possessed by unknown livings. 

Kübra is attacked by jinns in a wedding night. Kübra is psychiatrist Ebru's childhood friend from Kıbledere's village. Ebru wants to observe Kübra for a visual phenomenon presentation and to shoot the actions taken by so-called jinn exorcists and their results. Ebru and jinn exorcist Faruk together reach the house where Kübra and her family live, and the struggle between religion and science becomes horrifying as the facts are revealed. While in the beginning the situation seems close to being resolved, when creepy events in Kıbledere's past and a strange code is revealed, hellish hours begin for everyone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3069758/

If the eye belongs to the jinns, the footage is the devil's!

Story: A true horror story which will stir the world from Hasan Karacadag, who has reached nearly one million viewers with his films 'A Case of Jinn' and 'El Jinn'.
A horrifying true story full of malignant, cursed and rotten souls from a village in Mugla, whose habitants used jinns in 1986 to find treasure, has been transferred to the cinema with all the hidden details and real documents.

This case of a curse by jinns experienced in Kibledera village, close to the Stratonicea field survey, starts with real footage of the savagery, judicial records, evidence and shocking secrets of the past.

The protagonist is a young girl named Kubra Duran, whose case is taken on at the same time by psychiatrist Ebru Karaduman and Faruk Akat, a jinn exorcist. A habitant of Kibledere, Kubra is also Ebru's childhood friend. Kubra is suddenly attacked by jinns in a henna night, and put under threat by a very powerful and dangerous being. Psychiatrist Ebru wants to observe Kubra for a visual phenomenon presentation and to shoot the actions taken by so-called jinn exorcists and their results. The psychiatrist and the exorcist together reach the house where Kubra and her family live, and the struggle between religion and science becomes horrifying as the facts are revealed. While in the beginning the situation seems close to being resolved, when creepy events in Kibledere's past and a strange code is revealed, hellish hours begin for everyone.

ACTORS:Irmak Örnek,A.Murat Özgen,Cansu Kurgun,Sultan Köroğlu
Kılıç,Elçin Atamgüç,Sabriye Günüç.

Found Footage Films - Area 51 ( 2015 )

Area 51 ( 2015 ) – Undeniable UFO Footage

So at last it’s finally arrived – Oren Peli’s undeniable UFO footage delivered to the world in an 80 minute package!
Most of you will already know that Oren Peli was the director of the groundbreaking Found Footage flick Paranormal Activity.
Did he manage to put himself on the map once again with this new offering to the genre?
Close…Encounters
Well he came pretty close but I couldn’t help thinking he may have taken the safer route throughout this film.

I was expecting something as impressive as the recent Exists but this just managed to fall a little short. It was one of those plots that you could play out in your head in advance.
It seemed way to ‘safe’ to me – there were no real surprises in it and I didn’t once experience any sort of shock factor. It was good – don’t get me wrong…but it wasn’t great!

The Plot

The film follows a group of friends who are led by UFO fanatic Reid ( Reid Warner ). In the early stages of the film Reid goes missing during a party in a nearby forest. Once found, he claims to have completely lost time and have no idea where he has been.
So Reid sets about leading his two best mates Darrin ( Darrin Bragg ) and Ethan ( Ben Rovner ) into the most secretive military base in the country…Area 51.
He is positive that his lost time is down to alien abduction and he feels he is being drawn to this famous UFO haven.
They do a bit of ‘business’ on the web and kit themselves out with the necessary equipment ( thermal goggles, hazmat suits and electronic signal-jammers…you get the drift! ) and head towards Las Vegas.
They decide to take a couple of camcorders with them in case they bump into any sort of extraterrestrial evidence ( naturally! ).

The Undeniable UFO Footage
Paranormal Activity gave the Found Footage community new and interesting gimmicks which allowed it to stand out from the crowd. I felt that Oren Peli made the mistake of stepping too far away from these gimmicks with this film.
I enjoyed it from start to finish but I felt like I had seen it all before. It seemed to stick to traditional Found Footage values when it really didn’t need to.
A few months back I reviewed a British film named Hangar 10 which seems to have taken the shine off Peli’s later offering.
They were very different films but at the same time they were very similar
( if you know what I mean ). I got the impression that Peli decided not to watch Hangar 10 or simply ignored it…
I feel this was probably a mistake.

Production
Production for the film began in the fall of 2009. In April 2011, CBS Films hired director and actor Chris Denham to do some rewrites on Area 51. Peli filmed re-shoots in 2013. In August 2013,

Jason Blum stated that the film had finished production and that Peli was "tinkering" with the film in post production. On March 14, 2015, 

Blum confirmed that the film was officially done and would perhaps be released on VOD. On April 6, 2015, it was reported that Blum had responded to a Twitter user who asked if he had any news on Area 51 by stating, "very very very soon. -JB".

 Finally, on April 23, 2015 it was announced the film would open exclusively in Alamo Drafthouse theaters and through video on demand platforms on May 15, 2015.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1519461/

Found Footage Horror Films That Will Get Under Your Skin - THE LAST EXORCISM

The footage may not be real, but it’s truly terrifying.

Taken out of context, this move from The Last Exorcism looks like it could mesh well with the “Watch Me Nae Nae” music video. When considered within the larger context of the hit film

The Last Exorcism, it brings back fond memories of the fear-induced sweat trickling down the nape of your neck. 

Possession and exorcism seem to naturally mesh well with the found footage format, but this film set itself apart when bathing in the intimate moments between priest, possessed and possessor.

The Last Exorcism is a 2010 American found footage supernatural horror film directed and edited by Daniel Stamm. It stars Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, and Louis Herthum.

The film follows a disillusioned evangelical minister, who after years of performing exorcisms decides to participate in a documentary chronicling his last exorcism while exposing the fraud of his ministry. After receiving a letter from a farmer asking for help in driving out the devil, he meets the farmer's afflicted daughter. This film received positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success.

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About Found Footage (film technique)

Found footage is a subgenre in films in which all or a substantial part of a fictional film is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings. The events on screen are typically seen through the camera of one or more of the characters involved, often accompanied by their real-time off-camera commentary. For verisimilitude, the cinematography may be done by the actors themselves as they perform, and shaky camera work and naturalistic acting are routinely employed.

The footage may be presented as if it were "raw" and complete, or as if it had been edited into a narrative by those who "found" it.

The most common use of the technique is in horror films (e.g., The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity), where the footage is purported to be the only surviving record of the events, with the participants now missing or dead. It has also been used in comedy (e.g., Babysitting, Project X), science-fiction (e.g., Project Almanac, Europa Report), and drama (e.g., Exhibit A, Zero Day).

Found footage is originally the name of an entirely different genre, but has sometimes been used to describe pseudo-documentaries with this narrative technique. The film magazine Variety has for example used the term "faux found-footage film" to describe the 2012 film Grave Encounters 2.

The film scholar David Bordwell has criticized this recent use because of the confusion it creates, and instead prefers the term "discovered footage" for the narrative gimmick.

Found footage films typically employ one or more of the following four cinematic techniques: first person perspective, pseudo-documentary or mockumentary, news footage, and surveillance footage. These four footage sources were determined to be the most prevalent in an analysis of 500 found footage films conducted by the Found Footage Critic website.

History

The technique has precedents in literature, particularly in the epistolary novel, which typically consists of either correspondence or diary entries, purportedly written by a character central to the events. Like found footage, the epistolary technique has often been employed in horror fiction: both Dracula and Frankenstein are epistolary novels, as is The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.

In filmmaking, it dates back at least as far as 1980's Cannibal Holocaust, but was popularised by

The Blair Witch Project (1999),

Reviewing V/H/S for The AV Club Scott Tobia noted that the genre "has since become to the ’00s and ’10s what slasher movies were to the ’80s"  The format has been subsequently used in well-known films such as Paranormal Activity (2007), REC (2007), and Chronicle (2012).

The genre has appeal to producers because of its lower cost, with the feeling of an amateur documentary allowing lower production values and filming quality than would be accepted on a conventional film.

Writer-director Christopher Landon, who has made several found footage horror films, has argued that the genre is likely to extend in future outside horror: "Inevitably, because of the flexibility of our crew and our schedule and how we operate in general, because we're so quick and lightweight and easy and functional that way, we tend to shoot a lot of stuff... I don't think found footage is in danger of running out. I think it's in that process now where I think we're going to obviously start to see more and more movies that are

tackling different genres through that lens. I think you're going to see more comedies. I think we're going to see a lot of sci-fi movies... sometimes it reminds me of when reality

TV first really hit and was growing. There was a lot of pushback and people saying, 'Oh, it's going to go away, it's going to go away.' But it didn't go away. It just changed a lot... YouTube has completely changed the way that we experience movies because

people are out there making stuff all the time and capturing moments, so there's a certain language that I think we've adopted. So I think that the found footage format connects to that. I think it's very relatable to people."

Over the past few years, the genre has been popularized in mainstream film-making, owing to the critical and commercial success of films like Cloverfield, District 9, and Paranormal Activity.

Complete List of Found Footage Films

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Found Footage Horror Films That Will Get Under Your Skin - The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

The footage may not be real, but it’s truly terrifying.

Directed by: John Erick Dowdle
Written by: John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title

The Poughkeepsie Tapes was supposed to get a wide release, but it ended up never getting to theaters — and it hasn’t been released on DVD or Blu-ray. As a result, the film has developed a cult following. In fact, being hard to find only increases the appeal of found footage horror, which should feel like the kind of thing you watch on old VHS tapes found in someone’s basement. Otherwise,

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is another serial killer horror film — brutal, but not surprising.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is an American documentary-style 2007 horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and starring Bobbi Sue Luther, Samantha Robson and Ivar Brogger. The film has become known for its troubled release history: Despite being completed in 2007, the film's only release to the general public occurred in 2014, seven years later.

Plot

When police raid a house in a city north of New York, they discover a profoundly disturbing record of one man's ugly crimes. Investigators find over 800 videotapes shot by the killer which present a visual record of his murders in all their horrifying details. Both state and federal law enforcement teams sift through the gruesome images, looking for clues of his identity, the identity of his victims, and where he could have gone. Repeated viewings of the materials reveal little beyond the terrible facts of the crimes, and as the authorities comb through the madman's images, they find the tapes have had a disquieting effect on them.

After the success of his first abduction and murder, the killer becomes less impulsive in his crimes. Carefully selecting the area in which he will strike next, he convinces a couple, the Andersons, that his car has broken down and they agree to give him a ride to a local gas station for aid. On the way, he clubs the male in the head and subdues the female using a cloth doused in a chemical solution while filming her face in close up. Investigators understand this would have taken considerable practice to achieve. The tape shows that the killer performed a C-section on the female, placing the severed head of her husband inside her womb before sewing her up again to later rouse her from unconsciousness and film her reaction. In the process of investigating the Andersons' disappearance, they come to realise the level of mutilation the killer is capable of, as well as his degree of premeditation. The killer made himself known in the CCTV footage of another gas station some time before the Andersons' abduction and murder, using sign language to give clues where he intends to dispose of one of the bodies.

It is then shown that the killer is stalking his next victim, the teenage Cheryl Dempsey. Taking advantage that she is alone he enters her home, secretly walking through the house. After her boyfriend, Tim Surrey arrives, the murderer places the camera where it cannot be seen and hides in a closet until he is ready to attack. Although he abducts Cheryl, he murders and mutilates Tim, leaving his corpse at the scene. It is only after the discovery of the tapes it becomes clear that this crime scene has been carefully arranged in order to obscure possible psychological profiling.

Rather than killing Cheryl, he imprisons her in his basement, abusing her sexually, physically and psychologically as his "slave", a name he beats her into accepting as her new one. Cheryl's mother, Victoria Dempsey, appeals to her kidnapper in a televised statement. He then goes to see her, offering to help in finding Cheryl while filming her response. It dawns on Victoria that she is confronted with the man that has abducted her daughter; he merely chuckles and runs away while she is paralyzed with shock.

The killer does not only capture the murders themselves, but the abductions, tortures and postmortem mutilations of his victims (along with bizarre fetishes involving balloons) all the while never allowing himself to be shown on film unless entirely disguised. Because the killer numbered the video tapes in order, investigators are able to determine that he started with the most vulnerable of victims: an 8 year old named Jennifer Gorman is abducted while playing in her front yard.

Eventually, Cheryl Dempsey is discovered in the killer's empty house. She is rescued but is severely and irreversibly psychologically damaged from her ordeal. She has been mentally abused to such an extent that she harms herself in secret. In an interview, she identifies with her captor and defends him, saying that he loved her and will come back for her. It is revealed that shortly after the interview, she commits suicide.

In one last glimpse of the killer's sadistic nature, after the credits, a clip is shown of the face of one of his bound victims in close up. The killer taunts her by saying that he will make her a deal: he will release her unharmed if she does not blink. After a period of prolonged hyperventilation, the film ends as her eyes close.

Blair Witch Memorabilia

REC Movie memorabilia

Rec and its American re-make Quarantine
Info Movie
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"REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams -- which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report.

 

[REC] 2 picks up 15 minutes from where we left off, taking us back into the quarantined apartment building where a terrifying virus has run rampant, turning the occupants into mindlessly violent, raging beasts. A heavily armed SWAT team and a mysterious government official are sent in to assess and attempt to neutralize the situation. What they find inside lies beyond the scope of medical science-a demonic nightmare of biblical proportions more terrifying than they could have possibly imagined. Above all it must be contained, before it escapes to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting world outside.

The original REC crew are back ready to submit their ensemble cast to another fight for survival against the zombie infection. This time to the backdrop of an original soundtrack. The new chapter will see the film “open up” by using a more traditional cinematographic style. However the film’s roots have not been forgotten and viewers will still be immersed in the action watching certain events unfold through the eye of the video camera. The action in REC 3 GENESIS encompasses the events of the first two films and after the sense of claustrophobia previously experiences. The action now takes place miles away from the original location and partly in broad daylight giving the film an entirely fresh yet disturbing new reality. The infection has left the building. In a clever twist that draws together the plots of the first two movies this third part of the saga also works as a decoder to uncover information hidden in the first two films and leaves the door open for the final installment the future REC 4 Apocalypse.