Now, let me preface this review with the fact that I loved the first wave of "Found Footage" movies from The Blair Witch Project on thru the little known The Poughkeepsie Tapes to the much lauded [REC]. These films had an immediacy and originality that afforded the genre some much needed relevance, in a market place of ever escalating megabudget movies from the big studios.Then suddenly everything changed when mainstream audiences caught on to the trend and we started to see a string of weak offerings from such luminaries as George A. Romero (Diary of the Dead) and J.J. Abrams (Cloverfield). So in recent weeks it's been a delight for me to discover not one, but two, well made examples of the genre, I will be dealing with the The Last Exorcism in a later review but for now, say hello to Grave Encounters...
