Welcome to Found-Footage.com — a site dedicated to found footage films, mockumentaries, and the horror subgenres that surround them.
About Me
I’m Roman Kugge — editor, writer, and the person responsible for (most of) the opinions on this site that you’ll either agree or disagree with.
My first contact with found footage was back in 1999, when The Blair Witch Project came out. I was living in Belgium at the time, and it hit theaters there sometime around October 1999, right in the middle of a huge wave of hype. Problem was, I was only 15, and you had to be 16 to get into the theater. So a friend and I convinced his dad to buy us tickets and sneak us in — and somehow it worked.
Honestly, the movie itself was… fine. Nothing more. By then everyone already knew it was fake, so a big chunk of the mystery was gone before we even sat down.
That was my first brush with the genre, though I can’t really explain why I became so obsessed with it over time. Maybe it’s the raw, unpolished feel of it — that immediate, spontaneous energy. I actually went to film school, and I remember always being annoyed by how much equipment lighting setups demanded. So I gravitated toward handheld camera work, no tripods, minimal lighting. I loved that — no hours of setup, just capturing the moment as it happened. Punk rock “home videos” were also a big part of my youth, and I think that instinct fits right in here too.
It wasn’t love at first sight — more of a slow drift into actually becoming a fan of the genre. I’d say the 2007 “revival,” with films like REC and Cloverfield, is really what pulled me in for good. The 2010s were then a fantastic time, with lots of amazing found footage movies (Europa Report, Trollhunter, Storm Hunters, Diary of the Dead, and The Taking of Deborah Logan — an absolute masterpiece).
About the Site
Found-Footage.com started life in 2013 as Found-Footage.de — a German site, fitting since I’m German myself, though I wasn’t the one who founded it. I discovered it around 2016 while searching for found-footage movie recommendations.
Then, one day in 2018, while browsing the site, I noticed it was for sale — yay! I didn’t hesitate and bought it right away.
I’ve been developing it ever since, on and off. In 2023, I saw that the domain found-footage.com had become available and moved the site there, with the goal of building an international home for the genre — one with both German and English content.
Since 2025, I’ve been pushing hard on the English side, building out the database, reviewing a steady stream of movies.
What You’ll Find Here
Reviews, ranked lists, deep dives, streaming guides, similar-movie recommendations, and coverage of new and upcoming found footage releases. The goal is to build one of the most comprehensive archives of found footage content in any language — and to keep expanding it. The site’s slogan is “The Home of Found Footage” — and that’s not by accident.
Non–Found Footage Content
Every once in a while, I’ll also write about movies outside the found footage genre — titles like The Last House or Caddo Lake. These stay within horror and sci-fi, and they’re always standout films in their own right — the kind of movies I think are worth your time regardless of format. The core of this site, though, will always be found footage.
What You Won’t Find Here
Illegal downloads or streams. Everything here is independent editorial — reviews, analysis, and recommendations. Nothing more.
The Found-Footage.com Team
Alongside my own writing, the site carries an extensive archive of content published since 2013. Articles originally published on Found-Footage.de, written by multiple authors, or whose original authorship can no longer be clearly attributed, appear under the Found-Footage.com Team author profile.