Candid Camera: The 10 Most Memorable Home-Video-Style Movies

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Candid Camera: The 10 Most Memorable Home-Video-Style Movies

 

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Redacted

 

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#10: REDACTED (2007)

Camera is used to: dick around and capture life in Iraq for U.S. soldiers.

Complex says: With Redacted, writer-director Brian De Palma attempted to give the horrors of combat an in-your-face power. He

Trash Humpers

 

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#9: TRASH HUMPERS (2009)

Camera is used to: show the exploits of elderly wackjobs (really actors in masks) living in Nashville, Tenn.

Complex says: Harmony Korine, the film

Sex, Lies, & Videotape

 

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#8: SEX, LIES, & VIDEOTAPE (1989)

Camera is used to: film repressed women opening up about their sexual desires.

Complex says: You couldn

Cannibal Holocaust

 

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#7: CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980)

Camera is used to: capture a team of explorers looking for cannibalism in the Amazon rainforest.

Complex says: Cannibal Holocaust is basically the nastiest exploitation film imaginable, and it

The Last Horror Movie

 

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#6: THE LAST HORROR MOVIE (2003)

Camera is used to: film a serial killer's murders and admonish viewers for voluntarily watching his horrible acts.

Complex says: Think Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), only, in this case, Henry

Alone with Her

 

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#5: ALONE WITH HER (2006)

Camera is used to: violate the privacy of a hot chick through hidden cams in her house.

Complex says: You

The Blair Witch Project

 

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#4: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

Camera is used to: make a documentary about an evil spirit said to inhabit the woods nearby Burkittesville, Md.

Complex says: The amount of bickering exhibited by The Blair Witch Project's three film student protagonists is grounds for punch-in-the-face resolution, so it

Cloverfield

 

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#3: CLOVERFIELD (2008)

Camera is used to: show how a group of bland and rather annoying twenty-somethings navigate New York City as a giant monster destroys everything in sight.

Complex says: We can

[REC]

 

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#2: [REC] (2007)

Camera is used to: witness a viral outbreak that turns those trapped in a Barcelona apartment building into demonically possessed killers.

Complex says: There

Man Bites Dog

 

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#1: MAN BITES DOG (1992)

Camera is used to: capture the everyday routines and psychology of a charming, yet volatile, serial killer.

Complex says: There are deeper themes at play here than simple bloodshed, yet, for us, Man Bites Dog rocks thanks to Benoit (Benoit Poelvoorde), the aforementioned killer, who