Found Footage, you either love them or hate them.
Whether it’s found footage or mockumentary or anythying that falls in the genre, I’m a huge fan of it, which is why I decided to do this list.
So here it is, my list of my top twenty found footage Horror films (the list is not in a favouritism order):
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
The Grave Encounters (2011)
In a bid to increase the ratings of their reality show, a production team locks itself in a psychiatric hospital that is allegedly haunted to find proof of paranormal activity.
Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon (2006)
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.
What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are finding that modern life has them struggling with the mundane – like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Cloverfield (2008)
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
Afflicted (2013)
Two best friends see their trip of a lifetime take a dark turn when one of them is struck by a mysterious affliction.
Lake Mungo (2008)
Alice drowns while swimming and her family begins experiencing inexplicable events in their home.
Diary of the Dead (2008)
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Creep (2014)
Aaron answers an online ad and drives to a stranger’s house to film him for the day. The man wants to make a movie for his unborn child, but his requests become more bizarre as the day goes along.
Be My Cat: A Film For Anne (2015)
An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film.
[REC] (2007)
A television reporter and her cameraman record the horrifying outbreak of a disease that turns humans into vicious cannibals.
As Above, So Below (2014)
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
Two decades after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
The Bay (2012)
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
Alien Abduction (2014)
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Digging Up The Marrow (2014)
A documentary team exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real.
V/H/S (2012)
When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
Apollo 18 (2011)
Three astronauts are sent by the US for lunar explorations. While collecting moon rock samples, the astronauts encounter eerie happenings, which prevents their return journey to Earth.
Savageland (2015)
A small border town on the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out, and suspicion falls on the lone survivor, an illegal immigrant who managed to record photographic evidence of what truly happened.
The Tunnel (2011)
A film crew learns of a government cover-up about the abandoned train tunnels beneath the heart of Sydney, and decides to go inside to try to find the truth. Very quickly the group begins to realise that perhaps the cover-up was for a good reason.
Honourable mentions:
Raz's Midnight Macabre 