Some horror films are advertised as documentaries, but as soon as they hit theaters, the truth is revealed. Pseudo-documentary horrors are considered the most frightening for their closeness to reality.
Instructions
Step 1
"The Blair Witch: Coursework from the Beyond"
This 1999 film became the progenitor of all subsequent horror films advertised as documentaries. The main feature of any pseudo-documentary is shooting with an amateur camera. Here young people are filmed for her camping trip. They want to find the Blair witch, so they go to the place where she lived according to legend. Unexpected finds, loss of a map, disappearance of group members are classics of this genre. The night footage of the movement and the camera falling at the end terrified all spectators.
Step 2
"The fourth kind"
This film in the genre of mocumentari (from the English word “forge”) was watched by many because of the performance of Milla Jovovich. The plot tells about people who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Alaska. The action takes place in two parallels: shooting on an amateur camera Abigail Tyler with her memories and a high-quality recording where Milla plays her. It seemed that there was a connection between documentary film and professional cinematography. But after the release on the big screen, it became known that these were just two actresses, and there was no trace of Abigail.
Step 3
"Paranormal Activity"
One of the most popular pseudo-documentary horror films. During the viewing, most already knew that this was a fiction, filmed on an amateur camera. But fear still dominated the audience, since the scenes where the house begins to live its own life at night cannot leave even skeptics indifferent.
Step 4
"Grave Seekers"
The plot is based on the story of an aspiring director who found a tape of his colleague with strange recordings from an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Then he receives a piece of another entry in the mail, which seemed to be missing from the first. There is nothing left but to go to the scene of the crime and study the secret of the hospital yourself. Competent suspense and escalation of the atmosphere made this film famous.
Step 5
"Cannibal Hell"
This picture left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. In an amateur style, it was filmed how the actors copulate, kill animals, eat strange foods. Everything was so realistic that the Italian director was almost arrested for murder, deciding that the death of the actors was real. The actors were interviewed to prove otherwise. But in Italy, the film was still banned. What can not be said about Japan, in which he took a huge box office.
