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FFDragon posted...

Found footage is often like edging. An hour-fifteen of building you up and then 15 minutes of release. You don't need a big budget for that, which is what I think makes the subgenre a lot of the time. Now with an anthology that obviously goes out the window since everything is more condensed, but I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with a slow build to one big finale.

There's a difference between a slow build and NO build. Blair Witch is largely a group of poorly-shot douchebags lost in the woods, and then fast forward to a guy in an abandoned building, staring at a wall. Paranormal Activity is somehow worse than that.