Author's Note - Celluloid

For a lack of a better word, I'm using the word celluloid as a general umbrella for this week's theme. These are movies that involve videos, pirated signals, and the act of filming as the main focus of the story line. While researching and watching various horror movies over the past few months, I've come to notice that videos within a movie are common; the "found footage" sub-genre is the most popular but there are several movies where videos are used in different and interesting ways. Most of these are about some video and web cams that you should simply avoid ("The Ring", "The Ring 2", "Cigarette Burns", "Videodrome", and "Fear Dot Com") while other movies focus on the filming within the film itself  ("The Hills Run Red" and "A Serbian Film").These are all films that make you pause and wonder if you should watch that movie sitting in your DVD player or not....