As much as just about everybody dismisses Blair Witch Project as a gimmick movie now, when I saw it in the theater back in 1999, that movie worked incredibly on an audience.
Love a good found footage horror and I haven't heard of half of these so I'll have to check them out.
I can't go without mentioning Cannibal Holocaust (1980). The film that started it all. The film, responsible for the disclaimer "no animals were hurt during the making of this film." It's not a fun watch, but I necessary viewing for any horror movie "cinephile." I saw it maybe 15 years ago and I think it's still messing with me.
As Above, So Below may look like just another found-footage horror film — and at first glance, maybe not even a great one.
But if you look beneath the surface, the movie becomes something far more interesting: a symbolic descent, a Masonic-style initiation, and a mass ritual disguised as a horror story.
I invite you to watch it again, not as casual entertainment, but as a coded journey through guilt, inversion, death, and rebirth.
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As much as just about everybody dismisses Blair Witch Project as a gimmick movie now, when I saw it in the theater back in 1999, that movie worked incredibly on an audience.
Yep agreed. It was defo a film for it's time…I still like it now too.
Rec is bloody amazing, even the sequel.
Love a good found footage horror and I haven't heard of half of these so I'll have to check them out.
I can't go without mentioning Cannibal Holocaust (1980). The film that started it all. The film, responsible for the disclaimer "no animals were hurt during the making of this film." It's not a fun watch, but I necessary viewing for any horror movie "cinephile." I saw it maybe 15 years ago and I think it's still messing with me.
As Above, So Below may look like just another found-footage horror film — and at first glance, maybe not even a great one.
But if you look beneath the surface, the movie becomes something far more interesting: a symbolic descent, a Masonic-style initiation, and a mass ritual disguised as a horror story.
I invite you to watch it again, not as casual entertainment, but as a coded journey through guilt, inversion, death, and rebirth.
Follow me if you’re interested in deep film analysis, hidden structures, occult symbolism, and the invisible architecture behind cinema.
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