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As a massive found-footage fan, I've listed every found footage movie ever made, over 500+ total. Hope you enjoy!
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- The Blair Witch Project (1999) Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard. Horror, Mystery (1h 21m)
- Cloverfield (2008) Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Annable. Action, Adventure, Horror (1h 25m) 7.0 on IMDb — 78% on RT.
- End of Watch (2012) Directed by David Ayer. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick. Crime, Drama, Thriller (1h 49m) 7.6 on IMDb — 85% on RT.
- District 9 (2009) Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Starring Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope. Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller (1h 52m) 7.9 on IMDb — 90% on RT. Neill Blomkamp's feature debut District 9 partially adopts the found footage format to tell its sociological story about aliens landing on Earth and being forced to live in slums.
1. Paranormal Activity. 2007 1h 26m R. 6.3 (258K) Rate. 68 Metascore. After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. Director Oren Peli Stars Katie Featherston Micah Sloat Mark Fredrichs.
List of my favorite and notable found footage POV films I have watched. Keep in mind, that the star rating for Found Footage Horror tend to be tougher in IMDB than most other places. So I will be giving my thoughts for each entry. If your not a fan of the "shaky" cam, then look elsewhere.
- 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.
- “Cannibal Holocaust” (Ruggero Deodato, 1980) The “Salo” of found footage horror movies, Ruggero Deodato’s grotesque provocation follows a team of anthropologists who journey to the Amazon rainforest in search of missing filmmakers.
- “The Blair Witch Project” (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999) While Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s breakthrough hit is not the first found footage film — it might not even be the first horror found footage film — it is the one that changed everything.
- “Paranormal Activity” (Oren Peli, 2007) While “Blair Witch” spawned scads of imitators (and its own mixed-bag of a franchise), no other film captured the possibilities of found footage and the inherent terror of the “real” until a decade later when Oren Peli shot his chilling spin on a haunted house thriller in just a week.
- “REC” (Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, 2007) Before the shot-for-shot American remake “Quarantine,” this claustrophobic Spanish found-footage effort brought a fresh dose of claustrophobia and terror to the zombie genre.
Found-footage films typically employ one or more of six cinematic techniques—first-person perspective, pseudo-documentary, mockumentary, news footage, surveillance footage, or screenlife —according to an analysis of 500 found-footage films conducted by Found Footage Critic.
