Welcome to Found-Footage.com — a site dedicated to found footage films, mockumentaries, and the horror subgenres that surround them.
Why Found Footage?
I’ve always been fascinated by home video. The raw, unpolished footage that exists before anyone has decided what it should look like. Behind-the-scenes material. Rushes. The stuff that wasn’t meant to be seen.
I went to film school. What I discovered there was that I was far more excited by a shaky handheld camera than by spending hours getting the lighting right. The careful composition, the controlled setup — I understood why it mattered. I just found the other thing more interesting. The rawness. The feeling that something was being captured rather than constructed.
Found footage understood that instinct before I had the words for it. The genre doesn’t just simulate reality — it borrows its texture, its mythology, its dread. The Blair Witch Project didn’t scare people because of what it showed. It scared them because of what it felt like to watch it.
The moment I knew I was in for good was the last twenty minutes of The Taking of Deborah Logan. I won’t say more than that. If you’ve seen it, you know.
About the Site
Found-Footage.com started in 2013 under the domain Found-Footage.de. Since then, hundreds of reviews, ranked lists, deep dives, and streaming guides have been published covering the full breadth of the genre.
In 2018 I — Roman Kugge — took over the site and have been developing it ever since. In 2023 we moved to Found-Footage.com to build an international home for the genre, with both German and English content.
About Me
I’m Roman Kugge — editor, writer, and the person responsible for every opinion on this site that you agree or disagree with.
My particular interest is in independent horror productions, found footage classics, and whatever the genre is doing right now that nobody has noticed yet. I believe found footage is one of the most underrated and misunderstood formats in cinema — and that the best films in the genre are as formally inventive as anything playing at a festival.
This site is my attempt to make that case, one review at a time.
What You’ll Find Here
Reviews, ranked lists, deep dives, streaming guides, and coverage of new and up coming 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.
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.