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Chronicle
Chronicle, released in 2012 and directed by Josh Trank, applied found footage's intimate documentary style to a superhero origin story, following three teenagers who develop telekinetic powers after encountering a mysterious object, and the film's grounded, character-focused approach distinguished it from more conventionally spectacle-driven superhero films. Its found footage format, gradually incorporating multiple different camera perspectives as the characters' abilities develop, allowed for increasingly ambitious visual sequences depicting flight and telekinetic combat while maintaining a plausible in-story justification for how the footage was captured. The film's exploration of how sudden, uncontrolled power affects psychologically vulnerable teenagers, particularly its central character's descent into vengeful, destructive behavior, gave Chronicle a genuinely dark character study dimension uncommon in more straightforwardly heroic superhero origin narratives. Chronicle's combination of genre-blending found footage superhero storytelling and its substantive character-driven exploration of power and psychological vulnerability made it one of the most critically well-regarded and structurally inventive entries in the found footage genre.
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V/H/S
V/H/S, released in 2012, structured its found footage horror as an anthology of separate short films connected by a wraparound story involving a group of criminals discovering a collection of disturbing VHS tapes, giving the genre a horror-anthology structure that let multiple different directors contribute distinct segments. The film's format allowed for significant stylistic variety across its individual segments, each directed by different up-and-coming horror filmmakers, giving V/H/S a showcase quality that helped launch or elevate the profiles of several subsequently significant genre directors. Its combination of found footage's raw, degraded visual aesthetic with an anthology structure spawned a lengthy franchise of sequels, each continuing the format of commissioning multiple different directors to contribute separate found-footage-style horror shorts. V/H/S's combination of its anthology structure and its role launching or showcasing numerous subsequently significant horror directors has made it one of the most influential found footage films in establishing the format as a viable vehicle for showcasing diverse independent horror filmmaking talent.
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