An ideal starting-point for all those wishing to enter the horror cosmos of found-footage: The Found Footage Phenomenon sees Sarah Appleton and Phillip Escott rejecting the subgenre’s vulgarization as a trendy post-Blair Witch Project brand and instead forging a cultural-historical bridge between the epistolary novels of gothic horror and the “analog horror” that spreads throughout the internet. Excellently researched and studded with dozens of interviews (with Ruggero Deodato, Eduardo Sánchez, and Oren Peli, among others), this concise and densely packed thematic overview offers something surprising and fresh even to the most hardcore fans of found-footage horror. (mk)