Found Footage Movies Like Paranormal Activity

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   The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

   A documentary crew films an elderly woman at home, and her behaviour becomes harder and harder to explain

2. 2

   Hell House LLC (2015)

   Cameras set up in an abandoned hotel keep catching things nobody put there

3. 3

   Lake Mungo (2008)

   A grieving family notices strange things in their home and in their own photos and videos

4. 4

   Host (2020)

   Friends hold a seance over a video call in lockdown, and something answers in their own homes

5. 5

   Grave Encounters (2011)

   A ghost-hunting TV crew locks itself into an abandoned asylum for a night of filming

6. 6

   The Last Exorcism (2010)

   A preacher who doesn't believe in exorcisms lets a film crew follow him to one last case

7. 7

   Apartment 143 (2011)

   Parapsychologists fill a troubled family's apartment with cameras and sensors

8. 8

   Devil's Due (2014)

   Newlyweds keep a video diary, and after a strange honeymoon night her pregnancy is far from normal

9. 9

   The Possession of Michael King (2014)

   A sceptic films himself letting occultists try their rituals on him, then brings it all home

10. 10

    Bad Ben (2016)

    A man flipping a cheap house watches its security cameras catch what can't be explained

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    Home Movie (2008)

    A family's camcorder home videos on a remote farm slowly show that something is wrong with the twins

12. 12

    The Blackwell Ghost (2017)

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

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    The Devil Inside (2012)

    A woman and a documentary filmmaker look into her mother's exorcism in Rome

14. 14

    The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    The classic that made found footage famous: fear built from sound, darkness and what you never see

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    Sinister (2012)

    A true-crime writer finds a box of old home movies in the attic of his new house

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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.