‘Hunting Matthew Nichols’ Review: A Missing Brother’s Cold Case Heats Up In Canadian Found-Footage Horror

Though it was not entirely without precedent as the progenitor of faux-found-footage horror, few films have been more widely imitated than 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project” — if only because its premise was so, well, economical. With no pressing need for FX, sets, name actors or stunts, just about anyone could make a marketable knockoff. […]