12. The Visit (2015)
The horror master M. Night Shyamalan successfully experiments with the found footage genre. Fifteen-year-old Becca (Olivia DeJonge), an aspiring filmmaker, and her 13-year-old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) visit their Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop-Pop (Peter McRobbie) for the first time, and she documents the family reunion. They dismiss some of their strange behavior as just the nature of old age—a collection of soiled diapers, randomly projectile vomiting, attacking neighbors, and chasing them beneath the house. Becca’s documentary eventually is used to record evidence of their bizarreness. Shyamalan has a lot of fun playing with the different ways to use the camera, even having the villain take control at one point. He makes this contemporary Grimm’s fairy tale feel fresh, and the family drama even more intense by putting it in the children’s point of view.
