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A list of favorite and notable found footage POV films by a user on IMDb. Includes ratings, summaries, and personal opinions for each movie, such as As Above, So Below, The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, and more.
- Creep
- Lake Mungo
- The Blair Witch Project
- Paranormal Activity
- Hell House LLC
- Rec
- Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
- One Cut of The Dead
- Host
- Noroi: The Curse
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Year: 2014 Director:Patrick Brice Creep is a somewhat predictable but cheerfully demented little indie horror film, the directorial debut by Brice, who also released this year’s The Overnight. Starring the ever-prolific Mark Duplass, it’s a character study of two men—naive videographer and not-so-secretly psychotic recluse, the latter of which hire...
Year: 2008 Director:Joel Anderson Lake Mungo could scarcely be more different from something like Grave Encounters—there are no ghosts or demons chasing screaming people down the hall, and it’s chiefly a story about family, emotion and our desire to seek closure after death. You could call it a member of the “mumblegore” family, without the gore. I...
Year: 1999 Directors:Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick Where Scream reinvented a genre by pulling the shades back to reveal the inner workings of horror, The Blair Witch Project went the opposite route by crafting a new style of presentation and especially promotion. Sure, people had already been doing found footage movies; just look at The Last Broad...
Year: 2007 Director:Oren Peli Here’s a statement: Paranormal Activity is the most wrongly derided horror film of the last decade, especially by horror buffs. That’s what happens in the wake of massive overnight success, and immediately derivative, inferior sequels: The original gets dragged down by its progeny. The original Paranormal Activity is a...
Year: 2015 Director:Stephen Cognetti This is just about as lean and minimalist a concept as you can choose for a modern found footage horror movie, but Hell House LLC is much more a practice in execution than imaginative settings. It’s the documentary-style story of a haunted house crew that picks a decidedly wrong location for their attraction, an...
Year: 2007 Director:Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza 2007 was a breakthrough year for post-Blair Witch found footage horror, including the first Paranormal Activity and Romero’s own Diary of the Dead, but it wasn’t only in the U.S. that people were effectively employing that technique. The best of all the found footage zombie films is still probably ...
Year: 2018 Director:Jung Bum-shik With the rise of social media and other technological advancements came a revitalization of found footage horror, with Gonjian: Haunted Asylum taking a unique approach for a new age. The film follows a horror YouTuber who, upon learning of the disappearance of two amateur ghost hunters after they visited an abandon...
Year: 2017 Director:Shin’ichirô Ueda Director Shin’ichirô Ueda’s exceedingly clever backstage zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead has been dazzling Japanese genre fans in limited release ever since 2017, but it took a few years for the rest of the world to become aware of what a completely charming film we had been missing. The only thing that holds ...
Year: 2020 Director:Rob Savage At a mere 56 minutes long, it wouldn’t be hard to make a case for Host as an extended short film rather than a legitimate feature, but the fact that horror fans didn’t seem to feel compelled to be sticklers about this—pretty damn rare, considering this particular arena of geekdom—speaks to the fact that filmmaker Rob ...
Year: 2005 Director:Koji Shiraishi Over fifteen years have passed since the release of Noroi: The Curse, and admittedly some of it did not age well due to the nature of found footage recycling certain tropes. However, the film is still a landmark release in the realm of both Japanese horror and found footage as a whole. Entangled within the film is...
A ranking of the best found footage horror films of all time, from The Blair Witch Project to Creep. Learn about the subgenre's history, characteristics, and examples of its innovation and diversity.
May 14, 2024 · Explore the best found footage horror movies from old classics to new releases. Learn about the history, style, and impact of this subgenre of horror cinema.
- The first true example of a found footage movie is thought to be The Connection (1961). Directed by Shirley Clarke, the movie is presented as foota...
- Cannibal Holocaust isn't the first found footage movie, but it is often cited as the first found footage horror movie. However, this is only partia...
- A mockumentary is a movie that is presented as a documentary, but the subject matter is fictional. "Mockumentary" is often used interchangeably wit...
- A thriller movie is built around suspense and tension, as opposed to horror which is more about creating shocking moments and fear. Thriller and ho...
- Found footage is a popular format for horror because it can be incredibly effective when done well. By presenting a movie as if it is real footage...
- It really depends on what you enjoy. The Blair Witch Project (1999) will always stand out as one of the best in the format, though, like any movie,...
- The Blair Witch Project (1999) A found-footage film that needs no introduction, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez's "The Blair Witch Project” claims to tell the story of three student filmmakers who disappeared after trekking into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, to film a documentary about a local legend.
- Paranormal Activity (2007) A watershed moment for the found-footage format, Oren Peli's "Paranormal Activity" first struck the festival circuit like a bolt from the blue, sparking audience walkouts; many felt too frightened to keep watching.
- Grave Encounters (2011) Gleefully sending up the "ghost hunters" reality TV craze of the early '00s while delivering surprisingly high-voltage jump scares of its own, "Grave Encounters" is one of the lesser-known found-footage films on this list, but earns its place through sheer commitment to its kooky-creepy bit.
- [REC] (2007) "The Blair Witch Project” spawned countless imitators, many of which mistook that film's shaky-cam style and abrupt ending as strengths that could be easily replicated through mimicry, rather than techniques employed by talented filmmakers with a singular vision.
- The Blair Witch Project (1999) Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. A true found footage masterpiece, no one can question the impact The Blair Witch Project has had on the subgenre.
- Noroi: The Curse (2005) Directed by Kōji Shiraishi. In the years following The Blair Witch Project, numerous found footage horrors blatantly ripped it off.
- Exhibit A (2007) Directed by Dom Rotheroe. Dom Rotheroe’s overlooked British psychological thriller, Exhibit A, examines the real-life horror of abuse hidden behind the doors of a seemingly ordinary family.
- Paranormal Activity (2007) Directed by Oren Peli. One of the most profitable movies of all time, Paranormal Activity went on to spawn seven sequels with an eighth set to be released next year.
A comprehensive list of over 500 found footage movies, from classics like The Blair Witch Project and Cannibal Holocaust to recent releases like The Dark Tapes and Creep. Browse the titles, ratings, genres, directors and stars of this horror subgenre.
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A personal selection of the best films in this sub-genre, from classics like The Blair Witch Project and REC to more recent gems like Creep and Grave Encounters. See the ratings, summaries, directors and stars of each movie on IMDb.
