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1980s

Found footage before the camcorder boom: fake TV broadcasts, mockumentaries and early home video horror. Includes The McPherson Tape, Special Bulletin, 84C MoPic, This Is Spinal Tap and Zelig.

10 films

Special Bulletin1983
Zelig1983
Manson Family Movies1984
This Is Spinal Tap1984
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie1985
The Last Polka1985
UFO: Secret Video1986
Psychic Vision: Jaganrei1988
84C MoPic1989
The McPherson Tape1989

Also 2 hybrid films tagged 1980s (only partly found footage)

1980s in Numbers

10 films · Busiest year: 1983 · 3 countries

The earliest 1980s film on the site is Zelig (1983).

Films per Year

  • 19800
  • 19810
  • 19820
  • 19832 20%
  • 19842 20%
  • 19852 20%
  • 19861 10%
  • 19870
  • 19881 10%
  • 19892 20%

Top Countries

  1. United States8
  2. Canada1
  3. Japan1