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Found Footage
📹 Every found footage title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
324 titles
What We Do in the ShadowsSeries
›TV-MA2019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 6 seasons · Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
What We Do in the Shadows
›R2014 · Comedy, Horror · 86m · Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonny Brugh
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Ghostwatch
›1992 · Horror, Mystery, TV Movie · 91m · Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Craig Charles
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
Ghost Adventures
›2007 · Documentary, Horror · 87m · Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, Aaron Goodwin
In 2007, The Sci-Fi Channel premiered "Ghost Adventures," a raw documentary in which 3 men go to Virginia City, NV and Goldfield, NV on a ghost hunting expedition. Virginia City is rife with macabre lore and reputed to be one of the most haunted cities in America. Ghost Adventures has won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary that was given by the New York International Film & Video Festival.
Archive 81Series
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Mamoudou Athie, Dina Shihabi, Evan Jonigkeit
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.
Special Bulletin
›1983 · TV Movie, Drama, Thriller · 103m · Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.
Talk to Me
›R2023 · Horror · 95m · Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Late Night with the Devil
›R2024 · Horror · 93m · David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Backrooms
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · 111m · Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
FearSeries
›2000 · Drama, Reality · 2 seasons
Fear is an American paranormal reality television series that originally aired from 2000 to 2002 on MTV. The program follows a group of five or more contestants being left at an allegedly haunted location and led them on a series of dares over two nights to explore and confirm whether or not the place is haunted. The show was created by Martin Kunert and Eric Manes. The pilot episode was Co-Executive Produced and directed by George Verschoor. The series aired the first two episodes in a pilot run, which received outstanding reviews and a full season was ordered. After eight more episodes, another season was ordered. The second season ended after 6 episodes aired. The series was not cancelled due to a lack of interest, but due to the high cost of producing each episode. A DVD, MTV's Inside Fear, was released on November 6, 2001. Fear was named #6 on Entertainment Weekly's "15 Taboo-Breaking TV Moments." The show brought several innovations to the reality show genre, including having contestants film their own experience as no video crew followed them into the 'haunted' locations, use of night vision cameras, and use of body mounted cameras to have contestants film their own close-ups.
Gemini Home EntertainmentSeries
›TV-142019 · Mystery, Documentary · 2 seasons · Remy Abode, Remy Abode, Jack
Gemini Home Entertainment is a found-footage–style analog horror web series presented as recovered public-access broadcasts, educational tapes, and emergency alerts from a corrupted media archive. Using lo-fi VHS aesthetics and ominous interruptions, it implies a hidden history of cosmic threats and government cover-ups. The series is widely regarded as one of the most influential examples of analog horror on YouTube.
Cloverfield
›PG-132008 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
The Blair Witch Project
›R1999 · Horror, Mystery · 81m · Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Creep 2
›R2017 · Horror, Thriller · 80m · Mark Duplass, Desiree Akhavan, Karan Soni
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
›R2006 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 91m · Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.
The RiverSeries
›TV-MA2012 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Bruce Greenwood, Joe Anderson, Leslie Hope
Wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole sets course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.
The Creep TapesSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Mark Duplass
A secluded serial killer lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer's questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.
Sinister
›R2012 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 110m · Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Vincent D'Onofrio
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.
Host
›NR2020 · Horror · 56m · Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.
Lake Mungo
›R2009 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
Bodycam
›2026 · Horror · 75m · Jaime M. Callica, Sean Rogerson, Catherine Lough Haggquist
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity
›2021 · Documentary, Horror · 94m · Lauren Bittner, Oren Peli, Brit Shaw
A deep dive into the making of the Paranormal Activity films with first time ever interviews with cast and crew, never-before-seen footage from the movies, and a preview of the seventh installment in the franchise.
Man Finds Tape
›2025 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 86m · Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson
Pulled in by a series of strange and unexplainable video clips, a brother and sister team up to investigate the events captured in the footage, only to discover a shocking secret that’s overtaking their small-town Texas community.
Creep
›R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Katie Aselton
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.