I found myself appreciating The Tunnel and Frankenstein’s Army even more on repeated viewings, but right now I’m watching The Monster Project for the second time and… it’s tough man. I’m taking a LOT of breaks.

What’s a found footage movie that you changed your mind on the second time you saw it?

I regularly fly in my dreams, just a thing I can usually do. It’s not a “lucid dreaming” thing just a tendency to be able to fly, and generally I’m the only one who can. All kinds of settings and situations.

Two things about it remain consistent though:

1. I think it’s pretty amazing.

2. Nobody else seems to care AT ALL.

They watch me do it, sometimes even take advantage of my ability to do so, but nobody but ME thinks it’s remarkable. I often spend a lot of time in these dreams waiting for someone to go “holy crap he’s flying!” but they never do.

I’d speculate on what this means but I am extremely reluctant to for no conscious reason - whatever it is must be a touchy subject with me that I can’t even express comfortably yet.

Anyone have an old clown doll they want to get rid of? Doesn’t necessarily have to look creepy (although that’s a bonus) but a bit older and awkward looking would be great.

This is to be used as a prop in some found footage film reviews I do.

The Devil's Door (2022) opens on its own final shot, which means this found footage micro-budget hands you the ending before the title card and then spends fifty-two minutes walking you to it. So I broke my usual rule and went into full detail on this one. There's also a story about how I came to be watching it at all, involving a viewer recommendation, three separate breaks before the midpoint, a load of laundry I didn't want to do, and three letters. I get into the sound mix, the script, the genuinely good premise buried in here, and exactly who should spend their fifty-two minutes on it. Full spoilers throughout, but the movie spoiled itself first.

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0:00 The Devil's Door (2022) opens with its own ending
1:22 Why I watched this one at all
2:25 The Devil's Door vs The Devil's Doorway
2:58 The cast, and every line landing like a hostage video
3:56 The premise: a coyote's last job in the desert
4:43 The sound mix and the non-diegetic music problem
6:06 Every warning these characters ignore
7:12 The gate and the mile-long tunnel
8:53 How the ending plays out
10:35 Who should watch The Devil's Door
12:24 What this found footage movie gets right
12:54 Verdict: knowing better never stopped anybody
13:31 Holy Orders and what's coming next

Would you say any of the following are found footage:

Lucifer Valentine’s movies

The Human Guinea Pig series

Faces of Death

Four movies, one virus, and a mystery that gets a little less scary every time somebody explains it. REC (2007) is found footage at its purest: a reporter's fire-station ride-along that curdles into a sealed-building nightmare. It kicks off a franchise that ends up at a wedding, then on a boat, but do the sequels hold up? I binge all four, sort the must-watch from the skippable, and get into the one thing REC does that every sequel traded away. Spoiler-free.

▶ Every episode of the Found Footage Broadcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8BefTclHdk8HUERVqx-MOTI6kViWOIj

▶ Music by Average Height: https://soundcloud.com/average-height

0:00 the whole REC franchise, one insane binge
1:33 REC (2007): found footage in its purest form
4:48 what makes REC so tense
6:06 REC 2 (2009): bigger action, smaller mystery
7:04 REC's twist vs the sequels' lore
9:32 REC 3 (2012): a zombie outbreak at a wedding
11:49 REC 4 (2014): the franchise stuck on a boat
12:59 should you binge the REC series?
13:43 which REC movies are actually worth watching
16:26 coming next + a request for your help
17:54 like, subscribe, and the Patreon

I want to use Speech Volume Leveler. It works great. BUT... every little inhaled breath gets amplified to a scorching gasp. How can I filter out just those inhales without going through the entire file and manually reducing the volume each time?

One of my life’s biggest challenges is severe ADHD that makes it so that as I hit a milestone in anything, I want to bail. Got pretty good at small engine repair, and as soon as someone pointed out my achievement I never wanted to clean a carburetor ever again. Got pretty good at hypnotherapy, and as soon as the third person complimented me in front of others I didn’t ever want to do another session.

Makes life tough when you compulsively bail on every project. Not a good way to build a career.

So in order to prove to myself that I could see something through, last year I did a written review challenge where I reviewed a found footage film every single day for 365 days. And I made it. Never missed a day.

So here I am with a YouTube channel and after roughly 30 videos I think I’ve found a groove with it. This last video I looked at it and said: “Hey, I’m getting pretty good at this!”

Uh oh.

Thus the challenge. Had to be big enough to seem basically impossible otherwise I wouldn’t feel inspired.

And you know what? I’m gonna do it. I did film a day, I can do this. All 2000 found footage movies let’s go!!!!

Found footage fanatics talk about Horror in the High Desert (2021) like it's a staple everyone has seen. Outside the echo chamber, almost nobody has. That means most of you still have the one thing this movie actually requires: a first watch. The slow documentary first hour everyone complains about isn't padding, it's hypnosis, and it's the only reason the ending works. I get into the real disappearance that inspired it, why this movie only works once, and exactly how to spend your once. Spoiler-free.

▶ Every episode of the Found Footage Broadcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8BefTclHdk8HUERVqx-MOTI6kViWOIj

▶ Music by Average Height: https://soundcloud.com/average-height

0:00 Nobody has seen this movie
1:20 Wishing you could watch it again for the first time
2:59 Horror in the High Desert (2021)
3:39 The real story: Kenny Veach and the M Cave
4:45 Why the first hour is so slow
5:13 The plot of Horror in the High Desert
6:20 The desert photography
6:55 The sister and the reporter
7:34 The investigation takes a turn
8:23 The third act (spoiler-free)
9:48 The sequels
10:18 Should you watch Horror in the High Desert?
12:39 Induction + what's coming next

I feel like there’s a news headline I’m missing in my feed. Is there a forest fire somewhere? What’s going on today?

I walked into BUM (2025) ready to write it off as juvenile gross-out garbage, and by the end I'd watched it three times. This is the grimiest found footage movie I've ever reviewed, a $3,000 shot-on-VHS fever dream so committed to being stupid that resisting it is a waste of energy. Every frame of this thing looks like it smells. I get into what actually makes it work, why I kept laughing at stuff that should've turned my stomach, and the answer the director gave me that flipped how I saw the whole film. Most of all: who should watch BUM, and who should run.

Spoiler-free.

Watch BUM (2025) on FoundTV here: https://watch.foundtv.com/videos/bum

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▶ Music by Average Height: https://soundcloud.com/average-height

0:00 The grimiest found footage movie I've seen
2:06 What is BUM (2025)? 39 minutes of VHS grime
3:47 The cast: no heroes here
5:42 The plot, spoiler-free
6:25 How gross does it actually get?
7:52 Made on a $3,000 budget
8:21 I emailed the director
9:45 Should you watch BUM (2025)?
11:52 Holy Orders: The Sacred Order of the Reeking Reel
12:38 Coming next: Horror in the High Desert & [REC]

There's a door in Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) that nobody has ever come back from — and this found footage classic is your chance to open it from the safety of your couch. A live-streaming ghost-hunt crew heads into Korea's most infamous haunted asylum chasing a million views, and it goes exactly as badly as you'd fear. I get into why the infamous slow first act is secretly the movie's best trick, what happened to the real Gonjiam hospital (it's gone now, and the movie is partly why), and whether you're Committed enough for this one — or too Lucid to bother. Spoiler-free.

▶ Every episode of the Found Footage Broadcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8BefTclHdk8HUERVqx-MOTI6kViWOIj

▶ Music by Average Height: https://soundcloud.com/average-height

0:00 Room 402 and the door you'd never open
1:11 Committed or Lucid? How this review works
2:21 Why Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) is a found footage classic
4:04 The real Gonjiam hospital story (and why it's gone)
5:27 The plot: a livestream ghost hunt
5:59 The slow first 17 minutes (why they work)
8:39 When the scares start
10:01 How Gonjiam raises the stakes
11:07 Should you watch it? (the verdict)
12:31 The impatient viewer's shortcut
13:03 Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital (the remake)
14:06 Holy Orders and the Cult of the Movie God

How is nobody watching this? The Decedent (2025) is the rare found footage horror movie that plays like a quiet, A24-pretty mortuary drama for its first hour, then turns into some of the most visceral, never-gonna-forget-it gore I've seen in years. Writer-director-star Andrew Bowser made something far better than its forgettable title lets on, and the only real question is which side of it you land on: the Open Casket Club, who'll file it in their all-time favorites, or the Closed Casket Club, who'll tap out and not regret it. I get into what it's actually about, why a movie this good went unseen, and exactly who should press play. Spoiler-free.

▶ Every Found Footage Broadcast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8BefTclHdk8HUERVqx-MOTI6kViWOIj

0:00 Going in blind on a viewer pick
1:08 Should you watch it? Open Casket vs Closed Casket Club
2:36 The Decedent (2025): meet director Andrew Bowser
3:22 From Jimmy Tupper vs. The Goatman of Bowie
4:16 The Baphomet rant & Onyx the Fortuitous
6:14 Inside the funeral home (what it's about)
7:30 The serial killer's note
8:07 Infrasound, glitches & the true crime handyman
10:25 Why nobody's watching this
11:09 A24 poster energy, then the killings start
12:28 The verdict: who this movie is for
14:55 Holy Orders: the Sacred Order of the Open Wound
15:26 Next time: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum