[SoulPizza]

So I just finished watching Blair Witch Project for the first time and I loved it. I know a lot of people hate the found footage/shaky cam genre for one reason or another but recently I've noticed it seems to be the only way to make me feel scared for an extended period of time. I consider horror movies to work best when it's like a group of friends sitting around a camp fire trying to freak eachother out with spooky stories and urban legends, and I feel like a lot of high production values, bad/over acting, and too much screen time for the super natural kind of ruins things for me.

In Blair Witch Project you never see the witch, there is no gore or graphic violence and no jump scares. The stick men were creepy as hell, just hearing people outside the tent and in the woods was enough. I didn't need to see them, and I'm glad a lot was left up to the imagination.

So a few questions I guess.

1) How do you feel about found footage movies?
2) Do you agree that less is more when it comes to feeling uneasy or scared?
3) When you watch todays horror movies do you find yourself having to force yourself to get into it?
4) Any examples of horror movies that work well that fall under the "less is more" category?

Anything else on this subject I'd be interested to hear about.