Found Footage Horror

Abstract

Found Footage Horror is a prolific and succesfull subgenre sin 2007. This article focusses on three distinctive traits of Found Footage Horror: inclusion of the camera into the narrative,

limitation of the field of vision, and bad quality of the image. For this purpose, it analyzes Chronicle (Josh Trank, 2012) and the first chapter of V/H/S (2012), directed by David Bruckner “Amateur Night”.