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11-20-2014, 06:01 AM
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Found Footage Horror Movie Tournament
This is like a fast-growing mutated parasite! Though the definition has become a blanket term for all horror films that have a faux-documentary or amateurish home video style but more or less over the last 10 years the handheld camera approach or found footage style of movie making has developed a notable or I should say a significant influence in genre film making. And we all here have some idea that how even in different parts of the world, from big to small scale studios & distribution companies, nowadays almost everyone has a growing interest and likes to test its undeniable appeal of "Smaller budgets-higher return reputation". The quality & mounting number of 'Found footage' films that's been released in last few years may sometime make us think that this trend is running out of steam for its cliched approach & tired subject matters & premises but still it's quite early to say this "real-life feel like horror experiences" is going away anytime soon as we all are more or less live in a common culture where one way or another, people sometime like to get everything in filmed - through smartphones, laptops, surveillance cameras, etc. and thus filmmakers are also continues to experimenting this style of film making with different conventional as well as new themes & stories of horror.
Anyway, let put aside all the critical analysis for this moment & get ready for a tournament of Found Footage Horror movies that I like to present you all here at HDC now. I have selected in total of 108 found footage or found footage style like Horror movies for this tournament. Though I'm not sure but I have a feeling that some of us here haven't seen a significant number of those films yet! So to keep things going, I humbly just can request you all to please feel free to participate & give your valuable votes for those movies that you think somehow or on whatever criteria you like, should win & move forward in this tourney. Taking this into the consideration as well as my experiences in earlier tournaments here in HDC, there's lies a chance to see or have deadlocks in some matches when insufficient number of votes can put a hold in a match and as a whole ongoing tourney unexpectedly. And that's why for the very first time, I like to introduce a backup procedure to avoid such cases, by launching a RED VOTE system. As the organizer & host, generally we don't allow ourselves to vote in this type of tournaments but this new RED VOTE procedure here will provide an option ONLY for emergency cases like when a match gets hold and we can't get a winner for lack of participation or insufficient number of votes and thus facing a deadlock situation for more than 72 hours, then this special RED VOTE will allow the host/organizer to come forward & decide a winner to keep things going into the tourney. As the host/organizer, I will like to use this RED VOTE(s)...first of all, of course, only in case there's a deadlock that lasts more than 72 hours in a match and 2ndly, only in the 1st round, cause I think & hope it won't be necessary afterwards. Ok guys, now please get ready, I'm requesting every new & old members to participate & vote in every matches. The tournament will begin shortly.... 
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Can't wait! This could introduce me to some new found footage movies... I like almost all of them I see.
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11-20-2014, 06:43 AM
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Round 1: Match 1
Man Bites Dog (1992)  Vs Reel Evil (2012)  Vs Europa Report (2013) 
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11-20-2014, 07:14 AM
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11-20-2014, 07:24 AM
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Man Bites Dog
Always love the tourneys here.
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11-20-2014, 08:30 AM
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Man Bites Dog
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11-20-2014, 09:33 AM
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If I understood the introduction correctly, we can vote even if we haven't seen them but by just using something to justify the vote?
If that's so, I will vote for Reel Evil. My reason is the title and the cover would influence me to choose it over the others at a retail outlet. If my vote doesn't count, no worries.
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11-20-2014, 09:43 AM
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Haven't seen any of these but I've heard nothing but good things about Man Bites Dog so I'm going with that.
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