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The Best Found Footage Movies of the 2020s (So Far)
The 2020s gave found footage a second life. Lockdown pushed filmmakers onto video calls, streaming made small films easy to find, and a new wave of creators brought back lost tapes, fake broadcasts and analog horror.
These are our picks for the decade so far, in release order. The list will grow as new films come out.
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
A missing hiker, a documentary and the footage he left behind. The start of a four-film indie series.
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The Medium (2021)
A documentary crew follows a shaman in rural Thailand as something darker takes hold of her niece. Long, slow-burning and brutal, produced by Na Hong-jin (The Wailing).
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The Outwaters (2022)
Four friends, the Mojave Desert and memory cards found after they vanished. A divisive, nightmarish trip that gets stranger the longer it goes.
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Incantation (2022)
A curse, a mother and a chant you are asked to repeat. Taiwan's found footage hit is one of the most disturbing films of the decade.
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Deadstream (2022)
A disgraced streamer locks himself inside a haunted house, live on air. Equal parts funny and scary.
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Late Night with the Devil (2023)
A 1977 talk show goes to hell on live TV. Presented as the recovered master tape of the broadcast, with behind-the-scenes footage.
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Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
The Hell House LLC series returns with a new location, the remote Carmichael Manor - and its old clown mannequins.
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V/H/S/Beyond (2024)
The sci-fi themed V/H/S, framed by a documentary about alien-encounter tapes - from a Bollywood star's trailer to a skydiving trip that meets something in the sky.
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