'Under the radar'...I like your definition...

I remember going to see cloverfield in the cinema back in the day, I had been quite excited to see it but I remember ringing my pal when leaving the movie as I was frustrated with the waste of concept from the found footage style.

“And Dean? Fix that tie, son.”

I disagree; I think the jumpscares worked wonderfully in Smile because there was a substantive story underneath.

Saving Silverman

https://youtu.be/W3QlWP8HEZs

You've clearly not seen the masterpiece Big Ben.

This is a post from 2011.

The amount of found footage horror movies compares to all horror movies has to be less than 0.5%

One of my favorite under the radar films

One of the worst cases of cut in half with a machete I've ever seen.

I havent watched the movie in a while but I’m pretty sure only 2 bodies get found, the native girl in the beginning and Jon bernthals after Jeremy Renee’s character follows the snow mobile tracks from the security camp up the mountain to lions den where they dump his body

IMHO, you don’t like them not because you are old but because almost all of them are trash.

If there is a shenanigan in the filming style, it’s because there wasn’t a good story to tell. So they try to “elevate” the film by gimmicks like found footage etc.

Someone can say there a a few good ones. Well, exception proves the rule.

But didn’t they find his body? Being eaten by the birds?

It’s left open ended. I personally believe he probably didn’t but I’m cynical

Jon bernthals characters remains

Interesting to see this. I heard of this theory before, but I forgot how it exactly worked. In other words, it's kind of like what happened with Fry from Futurama and the explanation of his existence lol.

Just.. Don't watch them then.. ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯. There solved it for you

Good thing less than a percent of new films are found footage

I just did a Wind River, Scicario, Hell or High Water watch. Love all three.

In Wind River, what does Jeremy Renner’s character see at the mountain lion den? Human remains of other women that those people have probably raped and killed?

Go suck a fuck!

Yah, awesome movie. Should check out some of the in-depth break down videos on YouTube.

Rip, this is sad.

Which jump scare are you referring to?

I don't think ALL the jump scares needed to be cut out, but far far less than every 2 minutes. I suppose cutting out most of the jump scares would basically make it a different movie anyway.

The thing is: I don't think Hereditary necessarily has that strong of a premise comparatively, nor does Midsommar, but both are heavily praised for the fear it induces without relying on jump scares. They're not really that praised for the story, moreso the atmosphere. Both could have been LITTERED with scares, but they choose not to and it sticks with the viewer much more (usually).

I think Smile's premise did have potential like those two. Midsommar didn't have much to its plot either, but it was more effective as a slow burn showing her descent into madness and eventually joining the cult. It could have been similar with Smile as well...without the cult.

This post wasn't really criticism of Smile or anything, simply a wish of "what could've been." A hallucinatory trauma demon altering your perception and driving you to insanity is a terrifying concept and without the over-reliance on scares, I think it could've been a good, if not a decent psychological horror. But maybe I'm biased since I prefer horror with deep internal fear than physical scares.

I think the term you’re looking for is the bootstrap paradox aka causal loop

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop

Just try it, watch one on stream and then on DVD. See the difference.