The Top 8 Found Footage films

411mania.com has a great list of the Top 8 Found Footage films and the reasons behind them.

Coming in at number three was the recent "Cloverfield" movie, with the website stating this about the film:

Cloverfield was a film that had a lot of people enormously hyped upon its trailer that virtually struck out of left-field. The trailer had people speculating on exactly what it was about. Was it to be a Godzilla film? An alien invasion? A LOST tie-in? The end result was closer to the first than anything else but it was ultimately something better. Godzilla is a great franchise (except the American version), but it's a distinctly Japanese franchise and that's part of why it didn't work in the US as well. We needed our own giant monster and J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves gave it to us. The characters in this are well-played, despite one big glaring flaw that sets them on their path--trying to rescue the girl who will surely mean their certain death. This is a great sci-fi horror flick that does a fantastic job of building to the eventual creature reveal, with little hints here and there until we finally see it head on. Furthermore, I'm glad to see that there has not been a sequel, as I think everything that needed to be said was and Abrams and Reeves have done a great job of holding off on the potential cash-in since they haven't locked down a story. Much respect for that.

I wholeheartedly agree with the writer's sentiments, and to this day I find this film to be the best non-Godzilla "Godzilla-like" film out there.

It perfectly emphasizes the effects that a 200 foot tall creature has on a major metropolitan city like New York, far more then what was portrayed in the 1998 "Godzilla" film.

In recently rewatching "Cloverfield" one of my favorite moments remains the unseen Clover monster first toppling that giant sckyscraper in the far background, then as the main characters hide in the convenience store one can hear the monster walking past the same street they are in!

How freaky!

There's just something so chilling with having a gigantic monster walk by unseen, and I really really really hope the new Godzilla film does something to this effect, where an unseen Godzilla first lumbers past our main characters.

As an added bonus I've included that clip here:



Great stuff!

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