Presenting The Juniors: An Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Podcast which will dive into the world of fantastic media, behind the scenes titbits and controversial film opinions. Hosted by the junior programmers, Seth Verhaart (⁠⁠⁠@sethverhaart⁠⁠⁠) & Elina Meinerte (⁠⁠⁠@eliina.mein⁠⁠⁠). During this episode we talk about the Horror subgenre of Found Footage and its origins, tropes and subgenres of found footage, some of the essential watches, like The Blair Witch Project, [REC] and Creep.  

Timestamps: 

0:00 - Intro 

0:45 - What Did We Watch Recently? 

9:50 – The Origins of Found Footage: Cannibal Holocaust, The Blair Witch Project & Orson Welles 

14:40 - The Difference Between Found Footage & Mockumentaries 

18:10 – Cloverfield 

19:45 – The Screen Recording Subgenre: Unfriended, Host & Spree 

26:22 – The Ghost Hunter Subgenre: Grave Encounters, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum & Hell House LLC 

34:26 - [REC] & the Motivation to Keep Filming 

Films Mentioned: 

Cannibal Holocaust (1980) by Ruggero Deodato 

The Blair Witch Project (1999) by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez 

The Other Side of the Wind (2018) by Orson Welles 

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) by Rob Reiner 

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) by Jemaine Clement & Taika Watiti 

Megan is Missing (2011) by Michael Goi 

Cloverfield (2008) by Matt Reeves 

Unfriended (2014) by Levan Gabriadze 

Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) by Stephen Susco 

Host (2020) by Rob Savage 

Mayhem (2017) by Joe Lynch 

Spree (2020) by Eugene Kotlyarenko 

Grave Encounters (2011) by Stuart Ortiz & Colin Minihan 

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) by Jung Bum-shik 

Hell House LLC (2015) by Stephen Cognetti 

[REC] (2007) by Pasco Plaza 

As Above, So Below (2014) by John Erick Dowdie 

Creep (2014) by Patrick Brice 

Mentioned in 'What Did We Watch Recently': 

Mamma Mia! (2008) by Phyllida Lloyd 

Shaun of the Dead (2004) by Edgar Wright 

There Are Monsters (2013) by Jay Dahl 

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Credits: 

Hosts: Seth Verhaart & Elina Meinerte 

Editor: Seth Verhaart 

Producer: Seth Verhaart 

Executive Producer: Rabia Sitabi Stigter 

Artwork: Anna Kallos 

Music: Benjamin De Murashkin - Can You Imagine (The Juniors Theme)