Found footage is climbing back up to the top! The much-maligned horror subgenre has received a shot in the arm thanks to the buzz around Adam Wingard's BLAIR WITCH, but the next step back up the ladder is Steven DeGennaro's FOUND FOOTAGE 3D. A found footage movie about making a found footage movie, FF3D looks like a simultaneous takedown of the excesses of the genre and a loving recreation of its best elements.
The film will have its world premiere at Bruce Campbell's Horror Film Festival in Chicago on August 20th, followed by its international premiere at FrightFest in London on August 29th. You can check out the trailer below, or if you have a 3D TV, VR goggles, Google Cardboard, or red-blue 3D glasses, you can check out the 3D trailer by signing up for the Found Footage 3D Backstage Area.
When he's hired to document the behind-the-scenes action of the ultra low-budget horror movie Spectre of Death ("the first 3D found-footage horror film"), an aspiring filmmaker packs up his camera and travels with the film's crew to a creepy cabin in the woods. But when the fictional evil presence from their film begins appearing in his behind-the-scenes footage, he has to figure out how to stop it, or it just may find its way into the real world.
In the same way that Scream deconstructed the slasher sub-genre in the 1990s, FF3D takes a found-footage horror movie and populates it with people who are aware of all of the rules, tricks, and clichés of the genre. They know how to make a found footage movie. But do they know how to survive one?
FOUND FOOTAGE 3D stars Carter Roy (REFUGE), Alena von Stroheim (HACKER'S GAME), Chris O'Brien (Alpha House), Tom Saporito (OFF CAMPUS), Scott Allen Perry, Jessica Perrin, and online journalist Scott Weinberg.