Paranormal Activity is a patient nail-biter that makes a virtue of its low-budget minimalism. ( The Associated Press/Paramount )Not only was 1999’s The Blair Witch Project a terrifically unsettling piece of scary cinema, it also launched pretty much overnight the entire “found-footage” horror sub-genre. Most found-footage horror is, thus, pretty silly by definition, but there’ve been some real creepy gems along the way. A survey of some of the best so far. Five sequels later, no one’s learned that it’s better to leave the cameras off.

Source: thestar September 15, 2016 17:04 UTC