I’ve seen both and I thought Missing was better from a plot stand point. Plane is a standard action movie and nothing too surprising. Both were good though.

What's the percentage of user review rating above 8 in the whole of the IMDB database?

I feel like I wasn’t clear: no one cares about your idiotic opinion

All good, man. Just throwing out a suggestion.

Meanwhile me and the bois making a found footage style film for university :(

I couldn't finish that movie. Got half way through and gave up.

Solidarity

Just saw Missing last night. Nothing really cinematic going on but the plot was pretty good and engaging and the movie is created in a creative way. I don't know anything about Plane but it sounds more like a mindless action movie with CGI vs Missing which is more plot based and less visually appealing.

Here's a comprehensive list of 520 Found Footage Films. As of 2022, IMDB has 629,807 movie entries in its database Those 500+ movies make up 0.08% of IMDB's database. Obviously both lists might not include everything, but it's at least a good metric to give us a rough idea.

In 2016 there were 736 films released in theaters in the United States, meaning in a single year more movies were released in theaters in the United States than even exist in the found footage genre. And that's not even including all the direct-to-DVD and streaming exclusive releases. India releases thousands of movies every year and countries like China, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy also release a lot of folks every year. Nigeria also has a rather substantial film industry as well.

In short, you really are complaining about a fraction of a fraction of the movies in existence.

EDIT: IMDB lists 1,388 Horror Movies released in 2021 and this comprehensive list of Found Footage Movies indicates 3 were released in 2021. That's less than a percent...

Tried to watch it but couldn't continue.

The Taking of Deborah Logan is a really good one.

I did not like Creep. I thought it was boring.

Careful with stats without a source.

But yeah this style is dumb. On occasion done well. But most dog shit.

Im with you OP.

Didn''t like Creep myself.

The Last Broadcast

The Last Horror Movie

S&Man

Creep 1 & 2

Long Pigs

Mean Bites Dog

Megan is Missing

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Straight to Walmart DVD gimmick

Someone does, that's why they keep churning out this trash, and indifferent consumers slurp it right up because they are told that red is the new blue.

Fantastic film. The dad is so perfect in that role and plays disgruntled/ disappointed fathers in other movies

Yeah I need to update my Zanga page to reflect this content

Yes but I would gladly watch them today. If they came out today, they would still be great. They are well done.

Seconded

Examples?

Please do not suggest: Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, Chronicle as those are exceptions and the default examples

I love them too. I haven't seen so many though. I guess I'm not watching enough movies, as I haven't seen near enough to get sick of that style of film yet. I won't watch any that don't feel authentic. I seriously loved Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Quarantine & the original Paranormal Activity. I can't think of any others I've seen though, but I'm definitely open to seeing more good ones. Any suggestions?

Except your original post said, "As a horror fan this is upsetting because so many these days are found footage." And that's simply untrue because it's such a small percentage of the horror genre. Even if you look at subgenres within horror, it's still not true...unless you're talking about the "found footage" subgenre, lol.

I agree that a lot of them are of poor quality, but there's a lot of good ones too. And oftentimes it's not so much a money saving measure as it is a narrative or stylistic choice to tell a specific story in a specific way.