The Outwaters

With The Outwaters, the found-footage horror film has unexpectedly found its trippy, unmooring, ultraviolent answer to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft and the free-associative barbarity of A Page of Madness.

Warping found footage language to establish its first-person perspective, it makes us its true victims and observers.

Like OG found footage film The Blair Witch Project, evil seems embedded in the ancient landscape itself – so fundamentally alien from 21st-century hipsters with their talk of Coachella and camping equipment.

He doesn’t just want you to observe the horror; he wants you to feel it in your bones. And in the fleshy parts, too.