Found Footage Movies Like Lake Mungo

1. 1

   Noroi: The Curse (2005)

   A slow, serious documentary that pieces small eerie incidents together into one larger mystery

2. 2

   Ghostwatch (1992)

   A fake BBC broadcast about a family in a haunted north London house, played completely straight

3. 3

   The Midnight Swim (2014)

   Three sisters return to their mother's lake house after she disappears, and the youngest films it all

4. 4

   The Tunnel (2011)

   An Australian fake documentary of interviews and recovered footage from Sydney's abandoned tunnels

5. 5

   The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

   A student crew documents an elderly woman's Alzheimer's and the daughter who cares for her

6. 6

   Occult (2009)

   Koji Shiraishi films a survivor of a seaside attack who says his life has been full of miracles

7. 7

   Death of a Vlogger (2019)

   A Scottish ghost story told through a vlogger's videos and later interviews, in documentary form

8. 8

   Apartment 143 (2011)

   Parapsychologists move in with a widowed father and his two children, who are plagued by strange events

9. 9

   The Last Broadcast (1998)

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   A filmmaker reopens the case of a public-access paranormal show, working from a damaged tape

10. 10

    Butterfly Kisses (2018)

    A filmmaker goes through a box of tapes about a local urban legend and sets out to make a documentary

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    The Blackwell Ghost (2017)

    A filmmaker moves into a house said to be haunted to prove that ghosts are real

12. 12

    The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    Louder, but the same "real documentary" feeling: three students film a local legend in the woods

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    Paranormal Activity (2007)

    Louder, but just as patient: a couple films their house at night to find the source of the noises

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.