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MAN ON WIRE helmer jumping on the found footage horror bandwagon with THE VATICAN TAPES!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. James Marsh's MAN ON WIRE is a fantastic documentary about the French dude that's obsessed with staging tight rope walking hits on famous landmarks, most notably when he walked between the two World Trade Center towers.

Marsh is heading back to the feature film world (his first was 2005's THE KING) with a Lionsgate found footage horror movie called THE VATICAN TAPES according to Hollywood Reporter's Borys Kit. I'm thinking this subgenre is already close to wearing itself out again, but I have to admit that I like the basic set-up here... Essentially the flick is about what happens when a tape of a failed exorcism somehow leaks out of the Vatican.

If they do it without making the camera POV the focus of the movie this could be a great horror flick. I mean, the best parts of THE FOURTH KIND were the videos... they just decided to shoe-horn in that "this is real" throughline that became distracting.

This project is a curiosity at the moment. There's a slim path it could walk and be incredibly effective. We'll see how it casts up and comes out.

-Quint
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First?
by BlindMessiah
Nov 9th, 2009
08:18:35 AM
What Could Be...
by BoggyCreekBeast
Nov 9th, 2009
08:19:53 AM
This is one of those genre's
by liljuniorbrown
Nov 9th, 2009
08:37:29 AM
Let me guess
by seppukudkurosawa
Nov 9th, 2009
08:45:35 AM
Theme song - "Priest"
by argos_and_the_laminated_book_o f_dreams
Nov 9th, 2009
08:57:35 AM
MAN ON WIRE
by Series7
Nov 9th, 2009
09:07:52 AM
Isn't there a deleted scene from Paranormal
by thinboyslim.
Nov 9th, 2009
09:23:46 AM
this will not be a POV film
by JettL93
Nov 9th, 2009
09:45:36 AM
JettL93
by Pawprint
Nov 9th, 2009
10:02:20 AM
The double edged sword of "found footage" movies
by j_ky2002
Nov 9th, 2009
10:10:29 AM
Paranormal Activities scene.
by V'Shael
Nov 9th, 2009
10:12:53 AM
When I read the synopsis, I thought of this ...
by V'Shael
Nov 9th, 2009
10:13:49 AM
i thought this was "popes gone wild"...Directed by Joe Francis
by ChocolateJesusMan
Nov 9th, 2009
10:49:59 AM
it's The Exorcist, but from the perspective of a video camera!
by The_Crimson_King
Nov 9th, 2009
11:05:00 AM
V'Shael
by The_Crimson_King
Nov 9th, 2009
11:05:48 AM
FOURTH KIND is silly fun, great structure
by reflecto
Nov 9th, 2009
11:26:26 AM
I dunno, this actually sounds pretty good...
by HarryCalder
Nov 9th, 2009
11:27:48 AM
Deleted/Missing Exorcism scene in P Activity
by Knobules
Nov 9th, 2009
12:08:42 PM
that article doesn't say it's a found footage movie
by Vern
Nov 9th, 2009
12:34:17 PM
The scariest part of the 4th Kind....
by The Dum Guy
Nov 9th, 2009
01:10:00 PM
They've done found footage since Deodato
by reflecto
Nov 9th, 2009
02:31:24 PM
Hate found footage movies, or hate remakes
by TheNorthlander
Nov 9th, 2009
04:38:00 PM
TheNorthlander 1 Vern 0
by voxmortis
Nov 9th, 2009
06:41:27 PM
The Vatican Tapes?
by lockesbrokenleg
Nov 9th, 2009
07:06:33 PM
MAN ON WIRE
by FreeBeer
Nov 9th, 2009
09:26:51 PM
Anyone (series7) that hated Man On Wire (series7)
by Teh Suk
Nov 9th, 2009
09:34:13 PM
Man on Wire?
by lockesbrokenleg
Nov 9th, 2009
09:51:04 PM
Why Exorcism? We are talking about Priest right...
by U_Banned_Me_Down_The_Stairs
Nov 9th, 2009
10:45:16 PM
The Vatican...
by HapaPapa72
Nov 10th, 2009
12:29:52 PM
By the way...
by HapaPapa72
Nov 10th, 2009
12:33:12 PM
Pound for pound the scare hit list by the numbers
by U_Banned_Me_Down_The_Stairs
Nov 10th, 2009
12:41:33 PM
Vern
by Mr.FTW
Nov 10th, 2009
05:19:56 PM
This could work
by criticalbliss
Nov 11th, 2009
12:47:36 AM
Northlander
by Vern
Nov 11th, 2009
02:45:50 AM
Vern - I see what you're saying, BUT...
by spud mcspud
Nov 11th, 2009
04:47:05 PM
Oh, and this camcorder exorcism footage thing...
by spud mcspud
Nov 11th, 2009
04:49:25 PM

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