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This is a bit of a surprise, I didn't plan on doing it, but my new schedule allowed me some extra time and I just went for it. 

The original found footage film! Three teenagers go into the woods to investigate stories of mysterious disappearances and the deep-rooted legend of a local witch. What did they find exactly? Hard to say, but we found the footage and it's quite a unique experience.

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Craig Hepworth

This was the first movie that really took advatage of the internet. And yes, on the run up to this coming out, we all heard that it was real footage.

casualnerdreactions

I find it interesting that both this film and Cloverfield used the internet in unique (albeit very different) ways for their marketing. I wonder if any found footage film could ever replicate the success.

Kelvin

Finally got around to this one. Overall? I appreciate what it did but like with TCM I think I've just seen too much of it in a newer/leaner format which interests me more or gives me more interesting setup/lore. It was good to see this still, I had a fun time with it, and it in fact reminded me of a *different* found footage film which I'd seen which came out a lot more recently (this year called the Outwaters) which I now see similarities to as far as that film referencing/playing off of this in some ways. Despite what I said just now, it has a similar sort of tone in that it really goes for atmosphere over lots of events or explanation, but it's also very different and stranger in a bunch of ways. I'm tempted to put it up at a future point because I think you'd be one of the few reactors I might be able to suggest it to that could get a kick out of how minimalistic the film gets, but that will be at a later point. In terms of favorite found footage stuff, besides Deadstream it'd probably be the aforementioned Outwaters and a movie called Noroi (another potential pick at some future point)

casualnerdreactions

I can see that! So much of this film's status really involves the experience of seeing it in theater at that time with the marketing they set up. Definitely worth checking out wondering if we'd have any of the films that followed without.