Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Pixar Animation Studios films
Toy Story · Finding Nemo · Ratatouille · Turning Red
medium
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Prisoners · Kundun · True Grit · The Village
hard
Found footage films
The Blair Witch Project · Paranormal Activity · Chronicle · Cloverfield
Each movie pretends the camera was there when everything went wrong. The footage does not just record the panic. It becomes the whole reason the panic feels so immediate.
tricky
Mockumentary comedies
This Is Spinal Tap · Best in Show · Drop Dead Gorgeous · What We Do in the Shadows
These movies borrow documentary habits like interviews, observational camera work, and painfully revealing cutaways, then use that fake seriousness to make everybody look even more ridiculous.