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The Best Found Footage Movies of 2025

2025 was a strong year for found footage: a horror story told entirely through local TV commercials, a screenlife heist, a love letter to the genre itself and a V/H/S film made for Halloween.

These are our twelve picks for the year, chosen by checking audience ratings on Letterboxd and critic reviews. Some premiered at festivals in 2025 and reached cinemas or streaming later. They are listed in release order.

  1. 01

    Tinsman Road (2025)

    Directed by Robbie Banfitch · 1h 59m

    The Outwaters director Robbie Banfitch returns home with a mini-DV camera to find out what happened to his missing sister.

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  2. 02

    Content (2025)

    Directed by Adam Meilech · 1h 28m

    A friendly director stalks and blackmails his actors through their phones and laptops, until their lives become his horror movie.

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  3. 03

    The Household (2025)

    Directed by Luke Shaw · 1h 59m

    Two amateur filmmakers investigate an urban legend and a string of unsolved murders, and a secret organization starts watching them back.

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  4. 04

    Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project (2025)

    Directed by Max Tzannes · 1h 29m

    A mockumentary about an amateur director trying to make the greatest found footage film of all time - a Bigfoot movie. A love letter to the genre.

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  5. 05

    LifeHack (2025)

    Directed by Ronan Corrigan · 1h 37m

    Four online pranksters try to steal cryptocurrency from a tech billionaire, all told on their screens. A tense British screenlife heist.

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  6. 06

    Alan at Night (2025)

    Directed by Jesse Swenson · 1h 31m

    Two prank YouTubers film their new roommate, whose behaviour gets stranger every night. A found footage horror comedy.

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  7. 07

    The Rebrand (2025)

    Directed by Kaye Adelaide · 1h 19m

    A pregnant videographer films a cancelled influencer couple's comeback documentary. A sharp queer horror-comedy.

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  8. 08

    Buffet Infinity (2025)

    Directed by Simon Glassman · 1h 33m

    A whole horror story told through a small town's local TV ads, news bumpers and PSAs. Surreal, funny and one of the best-reviewed found footage films in years.

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  9. 09

    V/H/S/Halloween (2025)

    Directed by Bryan M. Ferguson, Anna Zlokovic, Paco Plaza, Casper Kelly, Alex Ross Perry, Micheline Pitt-Norman, R.H. Norman · 1h 55m

    The anthology series goes all in on Halloween, with trick-or-treat tapes framed by a deadly soda test. One of the best-reviewed V/H/S films.

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  10. 10

    Frogman Returns (2025)

    Directed by Anthony Cousins · 1h 18m

    Dallas, Amy and the Frogman are back in Loveland, Ohio. The sequel fans of Frogman were hoping for.

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    Man Finds Tape (2025)

    Directed by Paul Gandersman, Peter Hall · 1h 26m

    A viral VHS tape of a figure entering a house at night pulls a sister back to her strange small Texas hometown.

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    Horror in the High Desert 4: Majesty (2025)

    Directed by Dutch Marich · 1h 17m

    Dutch Marich's indie series continues with a box buried on a Nevada ranch and a history nobody was meant to find.

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