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Why do TV game shows and documentaries insist on pretending that film crews don’t exist?

Found Footage, modern horror and 1970s British sleaze are explored in our latest video interview.

The bizarre 1980 BBC news report that attempted to convince viewers that dinosaurs were being genetically engineered in Hertfordshire.

The mockumentary ghost story from 2009 has found a new audience – and new relevance in a world where no one knows what is real and what is fake.

The scariest film of the last decade, apparently – but does Host live up to the claims that it is the horror film we all need for the Covid Age?

How the TV broadcast of the horror classic caused religious hysteria and fears of demonic possession.

A horror film performed live via video conferencing that has more ambition than scares.