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24 June 2008 4:56 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Cinéma-vérité. Reality horror. An unblinking look at terror at its most shaky. Call it what you will, the new trend of shot-on-the-cheap films featuring “found footage” from some horrifying incident or another isn’t going away anytime soon. In fact it’s far more popular now than it was immediately following The Blair Witch Project, the film everyone cites as starting this trend (technically it’d actually be Cannibal Holocaust, however).

It hasn’t escaped the notice of the Fantasia crew, so this year they’ve set aside a small spotlight called “Playback in Black”, which will feature three "reality horror" films that they think are the best of this new/old trend.

”When we think about the whole Pov horror craze, we almost always think of American camcorder productions eager to cash-in on a growing and reasonably-cheap-to-produce trend,” Fantasia program director Mitch Davis told us. ”The trio of titles

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1 article from 2008