Found Footage Movies Like Afflicted

1. 1

   Chronicle (2012)

   Young friends film a sudden, strange change in themselves on a handheld camera, fast and fun

2. 2

   Cloverfield (2008)

   Friends film one frantic night of a huge attack on Manhattan on a single handheld camera

3. 3

   [REC] (2007)

   A TV reporter and her cameraman follow Barcelona firefighters into a building the authorities seal off

4. 4

   V/H/S/2 (2013)

   Anthology of tapes, among them a cyclist who turns into a zombie, filmed by his own helmet camera

5. 5

   Diary of the Dead (2007)

   Film students keep shooting on the road home as the dead come back to life, from George A. Romero

6. 6

   As Above, So Below (2014)

   Also in Paris: a scholar and a documentary cameraman lead urban explorers deep into the catacombs

7. 7

   Dashcam (2021)

   An American live streamer on a trip to London films a frantic night drive on her phone

8. 8

   Jeruzalem (2015)

   American friends on holiday in Israel record everything through smart glasses, fast and frantic

9. 9

   Devil's Pass (2013)

   Five American students travel to Russia to film a documentary at the Dyatlov Pass site

10. 10

    Ghoul (2015)

    An American crew travels to Ukraine for a documentary about the 1930s famine and meets a local psychic

11. 11

    Living Among Us (2018)

    A vampire family lets a documentary crew into their home, played straight as horror

12. 12

    What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

    Vampires played for laughs: a documentary crew follows three flatmates in Wellington. A comedy

13. 13

    Trollhunter (2010)

    Norwegian film students follow a mysterious hunter and film a secret far bigger than they expected

14. 14

    Frankenstein's Army (2013)

    A Soviet unit filming for propaganda finds a lab of monstrous soldiers, wild practical effects. Very violent

How we pick them: films with the same kind of story, setting, camera style or tone, checked against what fans and critics recommend. Films from the same series are left out. Hybrid = only partly found footage.