ALTAR * U.S.A. 2016 Dir: Matthew Sconce. 84 mins. For once, the obsessive filming of a found footage movie protagonist feels convincing in ALTAR: the hero is a grieving young man with “borderline Asperger’s” who documents a hiking trip with his sister and friends because he feels his late father…
Browsing: Found Footage
Movie Heroes Studios has partnered with Distribber for the nationwide VOD release of Matt Sconce’s ALTAR. A group of old friends take a trip down memory lane in the Sierra Nevadas which ends in a bloody fight for survival. Since its premiere at the Northern Virginia International Film Festival, ALTAR…
THE KAOS BRIEF *** USA 2015 Dir: J P Mandarino 74 mins Feature debut for writer-director Mandarino finds an compelling spin on the found footage structure: it’s framed as released footage from Hacktivist group “Kaos” and its masked, Siri-voiced spokesperson, who claims we are about to watch suppressed documentation of…
VOODOO ** U.S.A. 2017 Dir: Tom Costabile 93 mins Southern belle, Dani (Samantha Stewart) arrives in LA for a month stay with her cousin Stacey (Ruth Reynolds), basically to get away from her life in New Orleans. She recently found out that her Ex was actually married, not only that…
INFLICTION * USA 2014 Dir: Jack Thomas Smith. 105 mins In North Carolina, two brothers (Jason Mac, Elliott Armstrong) use multiple cameras to document their killing spree: beginning with a prominent judge, they target respected citizens they consider complicit in their own past suffering. Writer-director Jack Thomas Smith’s film strives…