This Forgotten Horror Series From the Director of 'Paranormal Activity' Does Found Footage Right

Oren Peli's The River

For all of its inventiveness and innovation, the horror genre's purpose can largely be summed up with one mission: scare whoever is watching. And while all of the medium's many subgenres excel at this to different degrees, few are as haunting as found footage films, those projects that use simple cameras to put the viewer into the character's space and grant them intimate insight into the terrors they're experiencing.

You Don't Want to Visit 'The River' &#x2715 Remove Ads While so much of The River's horror revolves around the fear of nature and insidious supernatural elements, the show first unnerves viewers with a much more grounded fear: what if someone you loved went missing? Audiences are faced with this terrible reality in the premiere when they learn that this universe's Steve Irwin stand-in, the famous explorer Dr.

So much of the found footage genre's fear revolves around intimacy, as audiences are granted a much closer look at the main characters' experiences than your usual scary movie would allow.

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