Sub-genre
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
Howard’s Mill
›2021 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 96m · Reegus Flenory, Josefina Boneo, Jeremy Childs
An abandoned piece of farmland in rural Tennessee may hold the key to multiple missing person cases spanning over forty years.
Long Pigs
›2007 · Crime, Horror · 81m · Anthony Alviano, Jean-Marc Fontaine, Paul Fowles
Two desperate filmmakers began a documentary about a cannibalistic serial killer. What follows is their actual footage.
Unfriended: Dark Web
›R2018 · Horror · 92m · Colin Woodell, Betty Gabriel, Rebecca Rittenhouse
When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.
V/H/S/2
›NR2013 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, L.C. Holt
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
The Den
›R2013 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 77m · Melanie Papalia, Matt Riedy, David Schlachtenhaufen
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
The Phoenix Tapes '97
›2016 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 67m · Turner Clay, Peter Miller
In 1997, four campers went missing during the Phoenix Lights incident and their bodies were never found. The Phoenix Tapes 97 is comprised of their final footage. This film is dedicated to the lives lost during the events displayed. To their families and friends and to the authorities who continue to search for answers. The tapes were found by Dustin Miller's father two years after Dustin was mysteriously shot and killed at a traffic stop in Texas. Peter Miller believes his son was acting as a whistleblower and had smuggled the tapes from his classified government agency in an effort to expose the truth as to what really happened to the four missing campers seen in the tapes. After searching every newspaper and media publication around Phoenix during that time period, we only found one initial announcement that four campers were reported missing, as well as a formal police report folder with local PD but the folder had no files inside.
The Blackwell Ghost 2
›2018 · Horror · 68m · Turner Clay
A filmmaker decides to turn the camera back on and returns to his investigation of the Blackwell Ghost in this sequel documentary. After being provided with new information from someone who knew Mrs. Blackwell personally, the filmmaker begins to follow clues that ultimately bring him back to the haunted house for one final stay. A documentary that shows actual ghost footage captured on camera.
Life of Belle
›2024 · Horror, Thriller · 73m · Syrenne Robinson, Zachary Robinson, Sarah Mae Robinson
This is the true story of how on July 18th, 2018 an 8 year old Annabelle Starnes went missing. What was found in the home would shock this small town of South Carolina.
Undocumented
›2010 · Horror, Thriller · 96m · Scott Mechlowicz, Alona Tal, Yancey Arias
A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.
The Black Door
›2001 · Horror · 96m · Sergio Gallinaro, Staci Tara Moore, Kevin Blatch
Seattle, USA, 1999. At the demand of MEG, a camera crew investigates the strange course of events that brought STEVEN H., her boyfriend, to be hospitalized. Steven's condition is serious. His body has been severely lacerated by an unknown assailant. The doctors think it could be a wild animal, or maybe even a man with extremely long and hard nails. Steven is also suffering from a mysterious infection that spreads inside him at an alarming speed...
Paranormal Activity 3
›R2011 · Horror, Mystery · 83m · Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner
In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.
Grave Encounters
›2011 · Thriller, Horror · 93m · Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Merwin Mondesir
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Quarantine
›R2008 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 89m · Dania Ramirez, Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
The Last Exorcism
›PG-132010 · Horror, Thriller, Mystery · 87m · Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.
The Bay
›R2012 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 85m · Kristen Connolly, Will Rogers, Michael Beasley
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours through people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge. What follows is a nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror.
V/H/S/94
›R2021 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Anna Hopkins, Christian Potenza, Brian Paul
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
V/H/S/Halloween
›R2025 · Horror, Thriller · 115m · Samantha Cochran, Natalia Montgomery Fernandez, Elena Musser
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
Delivery: The Beast Within
›NR2013 · Thriller, Horror · 87m · Laurel Vail, Danny Barclay, Rob Cobuzio
Delivery tells the story of Kyle and Rachel Massy, a young couple who agree to document their first pregnancy for a family-oriented reality show. The production spirals out-of-control after the cameras capture a series of unexplained events, leading Rachel to believe that a malevolent spirit has possessed their unborn child.
The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan
›NR2018 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 84m · Anna Stromberg, Burt Grinstead, Maureen Keiller
An unedited memory card from a camera shows Leah Sullivan's school project about a cold case murder that doesn't seem to be so cold after all.
V/H/S
›R2012 · Thriller, Horror · 116m · Calvin Lee Reeder, Lane Hughes, Kentucker Audley
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
›R2007 · Horror, Mystery, Crime · 81m · Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Lou George
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
Spree
›NR2020 · Comedy, Horror, Thriller · 93m · Joe Keery, Sasheer Zamata, David Arquette
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
V/H/S/85
›NR2023 · Horror, Thriller · 111m · Alex Galick, Anna Sundberg, Chelsey Grant
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
We're All Going to the World's Fair
›NR2022 · Horror, Drama · 86m · Anna Cobb, Michael J Rogers, May Leitz
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
