Paranormal Activity worked because you were invested in the characters and that they had some agency in what happened to them. The cameras were just a way to frame the narrative and to carry the story, giving a plausible excuse as to why there would be cameras running all the time. Found footage struggles a lot with this very concept that people ought to throw their camera away and just run rather than keep recording. Cat Cam does away with this problem by installing a bunch of cameras to watch a cat while going on vacation. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't hold up very well. It does have seve…
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