Found Footage Movies Like Savageland

15 hand-picked films

Savageland tells the story of a wiped-out town on the Arizona-Mexico border through interviews, news-style narration and the one roll of film its only survivor shot that night.

It plays like a true-crime documentary rather than a shaky-cam film, with a pointed social edge. These films give you more fake documentaries built on evidence, small-town mysteries and official stories that don't add up.

About the film: Savageland (2015)

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Lake Mungo (2008)
A fake documentary of interviews, home video and family photos that digs into one family's tragedy
2
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
A true-crime style documentary with detectives, FBI profilers and victims' families. Very disturbing
3
The Last Broadcast (1998)
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A filmmaker reopens a murder case through interviews and a damaged videotape
4
The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Also Arizona: a documentary built from found footage about the 1997 Phoenix Lights and missing people
5
Noroi: The Curse (2005)
A documentary investigation in which interviews and recordings of separate incidents slowly connect
6
The Bay (2012)
A small coastal town's holiday disaster, pieced together from news clips, phone videos and secret footage
7
The Conspiracy (2012)
A documentary crew follows a conspiracy theorist whose walls are full of clippings and connections
8
Horror in the High Desert (2021)
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A fake documentary about a hiker who vanished in Nevada, built on interviews and the footage he left
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The Wicksboro Incident (2003)
Every resident of a Texas town disappears in 1953, and decades later a witness talks about a cover-up
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Ghostwatch (1992)
A fake live TV broadcast from a haunted house, with a studio host and call-in viewers, presented as real
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Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
A short TV-style documentary on a legend and a missing film crew, with small-town interviews and evidence
12
The Tunnel (2011)
A documentary of interviews and recovered footage about people vanishing in the tunnels under Sydney
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Butterfly Kisses (2018)
A filmmaker builds a documentary around found tapes while everyone around him calls them a hoax
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Strange Harvest (2024)
A true-crime documentary with police footage, crime scene evidence and interviews. Very disturbing
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Murder Death Koreatown (2020)
A man films his own investigation of a murder in his Los Angeles neighbourhood, true-crime style

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 Savageland

Lake Mungo (2008)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

The Last Broadcast (1998)

The Phoenix Incident (2015)

Noroi: The Curse (2005)

The Bay (2012)

The Conspiracy (2012)

Horror in the High Desert (2021)

The Wicksboro Incident (2003)

Ghostwatch (1992)

Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)

The Tunnel (2011)

Butterfly Kisses (2018)

Strange Harvest (2024)

Murder Death Koreatown (2020)

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