Late Night with the Devil has commitment issues

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References:
Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (2014) by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
“‘Late Night With the Devil’ Directors Explain Using AI Art in the Film, Say They ‘Experimented’ With Three Images Only” (2024) by William Earl for Variety https://variety.com/2024/film/news/la...

Movies featured in this video essay:
Network (1976; dir. Sidney Lumet)
RoboCop (1987; dir Paul Verhoeven)
Casper (1995; dir. Brad Silberling)
Starship Troopers (1997; dir. Paul Verhoeven)
The Blair Witch Project (1999; dir. Eduardo Sánchez & Daniel Myrick)
Paranormal Activity (2007; dir. Oren Peli)
Cloverfield (2008; dir. Matt Reeves)
Shirome (2010; dir. Shiraishi Koji)
Amber Alert (2012; dir. Kerry Bellessa)
Crimson Peak (2015; dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Shin Godzilla (2016; dir. Anno Hideaki & Higuchi Shinji)
Christine (2016; dir. Antonio Campos)
One Cut of the Dead (2017; dir. Ueda Shinichiro)
Spree (2020; dir. Eugene Kotlyarenko)
Host (2020; dir. Rob Savage)
V/H/S/94 (2021; dir. Simon Barrett, Steven Kostanski, Chloe Okuno, Ryan Prows, Jennifer Reeder & Timo Tjahjanto)
Deadstream (2022; dir. Vanessa Winter & Joseph Winter)
V/H/S/99 (2022; dir. Maggie Levin, Johannes Roberts, Flying Lotus, Tyler MacIntyre, Vanessa Winter & Joseph Winter)
Late Night with the Devil (2023; dir. Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes)

if you ended up down here lmk in the comments what your favorite found footage movie is, i have a bigger thing about found footage planned and i want to check out more of them

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