Long before we picked up film cameras to tell stories, gothic literature employed the trope of the found document to imply a validity to their terrifying narratives. Often regarded as the first gothic ...

Cloverfield uses the found footage style of filmmaking to create an alien invasion that feels immersive and terrifyingly intimate. When an extraterrestrial monster attacks New York City, friends ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grainy footage, while jarring to some found footage naysayers, is particularly effective here because it obscures the monsters ...

Earth to Echo turns phone cameras into a stranded alien's eyes, giving its found-footage adventure an unusual reason to keep ...