1974: La posesión de Altair

This is a truly great found footage film made in Mexico, becoming an exceptional production with a superb ambiance, not only its setting in 1974, but also the visual editing to make it look like realistic home movies filmed in those times.

The trouble with the constraints of Found Footage is the difficulty of coming up with anything original in what is undeniably a flooded - and largely uninteresting - market. I wasn't expecting much but this film surprised me by going a long way towards delivering something different. Firstly the lo-fi video made a pleasant change and the lack of clarity was used to great effect for background menace in one or two scenes. Secondly, while the fate of the protagonists was made clear at outset per FF convention, the plot took some unexpected turns to arrive there.

It has a few flaws and evidently the budget was limited for special effects but this didn't detract from the experience. I would recommend this as a superior example to anyone with an interest in the Found Footage genre.

I'll be thinking about this one for a while. Very creepy. Well done. Definitely top 5 in the found footage horror genre.

This film was a really good horror film. The director has great storytelling talent. Film had a nostalgic feeling because it was shot with 8mm camera. It felt real and I was totally blown away by the birds when they were hitting themselves to the windows and killing themselves and then eating the dead birds. That froze my mind. It was scary. The found footage genre do not give you enough room to explore the different point of views of other characters except the one holding the camera but this film was very well done and it reminded me of another film which I saw, House of Temptation.

It took me an age to find this. It's a Mexican FF horror. Highly recommended for FF fans. It's set in 1974 and a grainy camera is used to give more authenticity. It starts off pretty basic but by halfway through you can tell it's going to get better. It's definitely worth a watch if you can find it. I don't want to give anything away as it's better going in blind. As I said, it took a lot of digging to find this and you'll need to seek out the subtitles on your own. All in all, I highly recommend this to Found Footage, it's definitely one of the better in this sub-genre. If you can find it. 8/10.