Most of Reddit calls Infirmary (2026) a dull found footage movie, a handful of people call it seriously tense, and both camps have a point. Two security guards work the night shift in an abandoned hospital with a deeply strange history, a chapel full of mannequins, and a poster borrowed from a Nicolas Cage movie. For a long stretch, almost nothing happens. I get into the hour the movie makes you wait, the one floor with no cameras, and exactly who should watch it and who should skip it. Spoiler-free.

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0:00 Infirmary (2026): boring or scary?
1:08 The Infirmary poster and Bringing Out the Dead
2:21 Infirmary plot setup and cast
5:32 Infirmary plot: the power goes out
7:03 The last 20 minutes
8:14 The Infirmary ending (no spoilers)
9:57 How Infirmary looks: camera work and lighting
10:37 Infirmary review: should you watch it?
12:59 What's next on the channel

Apparently it's available if you can track yourself down a copy of the "Collector's Edition".

Everybody on the found footage subreddit mentions The Fear Footage trilogy (2018-2021), and almost nobody has actually seen it. So I watched all three. One cursed tape, three films, and a mythology that never once explains itself, and honestly I didn't mind, because the ghouls and the makeup work in these are some of the best in the genre. I go through all three plots, what each one does well, and exactly who each of them is for. Spoiler-free.

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0:00 Oliver is watching something
1:14 Why nobody has seen these movies
3:13 The Fear Footage (2018) plot
4:50 Birthday Party segment
7:26 Storm Chasers segment
10:08 Speak No Evil segment
11:51 The house, final act
12:37 Is The Fear Footage (2018) worth watching
13:36 The Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape (2020) plot
17:34 Is The Fear Footage 2 worth watching
18:13 The Fear Footage 3AM (2021) plot
21:24 Is The Fear Footage 3AM worth watching
23:08 Should you watch the trilogy
24:32 Coming next: Lake Mungo and DOC_05
25:27 What Oliver is watching

Flashback to the 90s. I’m in high school and read about “the Internet” in a magazine. I pull some strings through the local university and arrange for my mom to be assigned an “Internet account”, since she’s studying there. I have to look up on a map of the school what obscure corner of a disused building she needs to go to in order to get it.

I connect my computer to the phone line and dial in. I meet people from another country in chat rooms. It is astounding.

I go to school the next day and tell my friends that I got my computer to talk to another computer at Columbia U. They just say: “Why would you DO that??”

I make online friends, and over the next few years end up dating two separate girls I met in chatrooms who happened to live near me, and wonder about a future where everyone uses the Internet. Maybe in fifty years.

Five years later everyone is online.

Another story, bit earlier in the 90s. My friend bought a VGA monitor that could display 256 colors all at once and I laugh at him for wasting his money. My EGA monitor could do 16 simultaneous colors and that’s all anyone needs. Does anyone even write software that can show 256 colors? Wouldn’t that make your computer burn up?

Five years later we were all using sVGA monitors that can do 65,536 colors at once.

We thought we’d never live to see photographs displayed on a computer screen, let alone videos.

So we hit 2000 and saw the entire world transform overnight, and nobody learned a damn thing. We didn’t for a moment expect the rise of HD streaming services. Spotify was obviously a concept that could never happen.

We watched Star Trek: The Next Generation and joked that those datapads would STILL be impossible in a few centuries.

And AI? Like… DR SBAITSO? lol…

AGI, ASI, and anything else that you can imagine: it’s imminent. Barring Luddite nonsense, Kurzweil’s Singularity is the only reasonable vision for the future.

Today is astonishing. Tomorrow will be beyond your imagination.

Accelerate!

Oliver picks three of the lowest-rated found footage movies on IMDb, and I have to watch all three. First up: Stay (2021), Brandon Walker's first feature, which is a sincere haunted-apartment movie with the horror movie equivalent of a laugh track. Then Robot Wars (2016), which has an "artistically rendered" poster promising robots and delivers one guy shuffling around wearing cardboard boxes. And then Blood Panther: The Way of the Cannibal (2021), a Troma movie with little blood, no panther, and three guys I'm fairly sure have never eaten anybody... which turned out to be the most real thing I've watched in ages. One of these gets crowned The Deepest Cut.

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0:00 How Oliver Picks the Movies
0:44 Stay (2021) and Brandon Walker's Found Footage Run
2:32 Stay (2021) Plot: What the Movie Is Actually About
4:09 Stay (2021): Should You Watch It?
5:44 Robot Wars (2016) and the Airbrushed Poster Problem
7:03 Robot Wars (2016) Plot Explained
8:21 Let's Address the Robot in the Room
9:30 Robot Wars (2016) Characters and the Shift Change
11:21 Robot Wars (2016): Should You Watch It?
12:02 Blood Panther: The Way of the Cannibal (Troma)
12:57 Blood Panther Plot and the Three Cannibals
17:59 Crowning The Deepest Cut
19:28 The Credits Are the Best Part
21:52 What's Next for Deep Cuts and Your Requests

Help! I’m looking for a direct-to-video Japanese series of movies called Paranormal Surveillance Camera. A bunch of them (seemly random ones) ended up on YouTube but none of them have subtitles so they might as well not be there.

Does anyone have any idea how I can find subtitled versions anywhere?

I saved The Monster Project (2017) for years as the sure thing, the easy found footage night where nothing would be asked of me, and that is exactly what it gave me. Three real monsters answer a Craigslist ad, a crew locks itself in a haunted house, and somewhere in the middle of it I got up and mowed the lawn. The opening three minutes are the most convincing fake viral video I've seen in this genre and the werewolf is magnificent. What happens in between is a whole weird mess. I get into who this movie is perfect for, who it will actively punish, and why the exact same movie can be a great night and a terrible one depending on the day you put it on. Spoiler-free.

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0:00 The night I watched The Monster Project (2017)
0:54 The Craigslist ad for real monsters
2:35 That opening fake viral video
3:53 The subplot that stops the movie cold
6:55 Meeting the werewolf, the vampire and the demon
7:35 When the monsters finally go off
8:55 The chase scene problem
9:22 What I did instead of watching
10:53 Creature effects, makeup and infrared
12:29 Fake twist endings vs real ones
13:37 The Sinister shot litmus test
14:07 Should you watch The Monster Project?
16:44 Next up: Oliver picks

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.

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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