We're in a weird time for movies RN

[malymin]

it's fascinating to read a review for Buffet Infinity (2025) that's clearly unaware of the bubbling underbelly of web-published found-footage "what if local TV programming and VHS tapes... but scary and malevolent" video-form horror; you know, the stuff we've largely been calling "analog horror." (And that people have often been - inaccurately - referring to as ARGs. All ARGs are unfiction, but not all unfiction is ARGs!) The following review doesn't even mention Wham City Comedy, whose short films like Unedited Footage of a Bear and Too Many Cooks aired during Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" block. Nor, as tresfoyle notes, does it seem to know that V/H/S and Late Night With The Devil exist, which are honest to god films that were in theaters and fucking everything.

Like, look at this:

Within the found footage subgenre exists an even more niche and untapped market. Screen life has slowly overtaken found footage; hardcore fans, like myself, ache for something different. One of the more interesting sub-subgenres of found footage is something that I don’t think has a name yet, so let’s name it here and now. How about…TV-gone-rogue! The TV-gone-rogue subgenre is small. Ghostwatch got the ball rolling for these gone rogue-like films, but there was radio silence for quite some time. It would be Chris LaMartina’s WNUF Halloween Special that really brought this idea back into the limelight. Many filmmakers have tried to make TV-gone-rogue interesting, and many have failed. That is until Simon Glassman stepped onto the scene with Buffet Infinity.

No 'Local 58' comparison? Not even the touchstones released as films or television programming? There's a strange naivete to this review. TV has been "going rogue" in independent video for over a decade, at this point.