Every Found Footage Horror Movie Coming/Released in 2026
2026 is shaping up to be one of the most interesting years found footage has had in a while. On one end of the spectrum, you have Backrooms — a $10 million A24 production directed by a 20-year-old YouTuber that grossed over $330 million worldwide and put the genre back on the mainstream map. On the other, you have 50+ micro-budget films from around the world, shot on cameras and camcorders by peop...[Read More]
Loner (2026): British Folk Horror That Earns Its Scares the Hard Way
There’s a specific type of found footage film that lives or dies entirely on one performance. No ensemble to lean on, no location-hopping to keep things moving, no subplot to cut away to when the main thread gets thin. Just one person, one camera, and the question of whether the actor carrying it can hold your attention for ninety minutes in a Welsh forest. Charlie Robb can. Loner is not a p...[Read More]
Best Found Footage Movies on Netflix Right Now (2026)
LAST UPDATE: August 2026 Netflix doesn’t have the deepest found footage catalog out there — that’s Shudder’s territory. But what it does have is good. A handful of titles that genuinely belong on any shortlist of the best the genre has to offer, and a few hidden gems that most people scroll past without a second glance. I’ve gone through everything available right now and p...[Read More]
Phoenix Forgotten (2017): A Desert Mystery That Almost Sticks the Landing
On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Phoenix, Arizona, witnessed something in the sky that nobody has satisfactorily explained since. A triangular formation of lights — silent, enormous, moving slowly — passed over the city for several hours. The US Air Force eventually attributed it to flares. Nobody who saw it believed them. The Phoenix Lights remains one of the most widely documented a...[Read More]
Viral (2016): A Blumhouse Outbreak Horror That Almost Gets It Right
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman made Catfish. Then they made Paranormal Activity 3, which is one of the better entries in that franchise. Then they made Paranormal Activity 4, which is not. And then, in 2016, they made Viral — a pandemic teen horror film that arrived quietly on VOD, earned a shrug from critics, and disappeared almost immediately. Which is a mild shame, because it’s more compe...[Read More]