"Found-footage movies scare you legitimately, but have a more fun feeling to them. You don’t walk out feeling sour." Walking out of found footage movies feeling sour has nothing to do with the genre, Brad...

It's a movie within a movie and it creates a godlike perspective for the audience. Like the impact of "Shawshank Redemption" as we watch Red watch Andre Dupre. It's a story within a story and that extra layer creates a mystical experience for the audience. Found Footage has that extra layer inherently. Like Hamlet putting on a play about a brother murdering his brother to be king. It's the play within the play that makes a psychological impact on the audience.

Man, this part of the interview resonated with me: "The problem with a lot of found footage films is that they don’t tell the story with the camera in mind. They just go, “Oh I’ll make a vampire movie,” and they make the vampire movie with some dude holding a camera. Then when you step back and look at the movie you go, “Why the hell is that guy holding a camera? It makes absolutely no sense." I'm writing a found footage script, and one of the first questions I asked myself was why would the camera be involved at all? This helped me a great deal as the story ended up giving me a reason that would evolve as the plot moved forward until the camera became a major part of the plot itself - not just existing in the story due to some flimsy excuse so as to chronicle the events taking place. So, I believe Miska hits the nail on the head with his observation (although said observation should be obvious, really).