Found Footage Movies Like Ghostwatch

15 hand-picked films

Ghostwatch presented itself as a live BBC Halloween broadcast from a haunted family home, with a famous studio host, reporters on location and viewers phoning in. Many people believed it was real.

If that is what fascinates you, these films give you more fake broadcasts, TV crews in haunted places and a few famous TV hoaxes that aren't horror at all.

About the film: Ghostwatch (1992)

1
Haunted Ulster Live (2023)
Halloween 1998: a live TV special from a haunted Belfast house with a seance, an open Ghostwatch homage
2
WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
Halloween 1987: a local TV station goes live from a murder house for a seance, old ads included
3
Late Night with the Devil (2023)
A live Halloween talk show in 1977 with a psychic, a skeptic and a girl said to be possessed
4
Lake Mungo (2008)
A documentary-style haunting: a grieving family sees odd things in their home, photos and videos
5
Noroi: The Curse (2005)
A missing paranormal journalist's fake documentary, with TV clips and a growing web of odd incidents
6
The Last Broadcast (1998)
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A public-access paranormal show goes live from the Pine Barrens, and a filmmaker re-examines the tape
7
Grave Encounters (2011)
A paranormal reality TV crew films an overnight stay in an abandoned psychiatric hospital
8
The Feed (2010)
A ghost-hunting reality series airs its anniversary episode live, commercial breaks and all
9
Apartment 143 (2011)
Parapsychologists wire a family's apartment with cameras and sensors to find the cause of the events
10
Classroom 6 (2015)
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A TV reporter and her crew spend a night in a college building said to be haunted
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Episode 50 (2011)
Rival sceptic and believer crews of a paranormal TV show team up for their 50th episode
12
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Four young paranormal investigators with video cameras spend a night in a reportedly haunted Louisiana house
13
Special Bulletin (1983)
Not horror: a 1983 TV movie staged entirely as live breaking news about a hostage crisis in Charleston
14
Without Warning (1994)
Not horror: a 1994 TV movie staged as breaking-news coverage of meteor fragments hitting the Earth
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Alternative 3 (1977)
Not horror: a 1977 British TV science programme hoax that went on to spark conspiracy theories

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.

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Found Footage Movies Like Ghostwatch

Haunted Ulster Live (2023)

WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Lake Mungo (2008)

Noroi: The Curse (2005)

The Last Broadcast (1998)

Grave Encounters (2011)

The Feed (2010)

Apartment 143 (2011)

Classroom 6 (2015)

Episode 50 (2011)

The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)

Special Bulletin (1983)

Without Warning (1994)

Alternative 3 (1977)

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