Roman Kugge

Roman Kugge is the editor and writer behind Found-Footage.com. Obsessed with the genre since sneaking into The Blair Witch Project at 15, he's spent years building one of the most comprehensive found footage archives online — in both English and German.

Caddo Lake (2024): Ending & Timeline Explained [+ Infographic]

Directed by Celine Held and Logan George and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Caddo Lake is a carefully constructed time-travel puzzle involving multiple timelines, a complicated family tree, and a closed loop that can be genuinely confusing on first viewing. This explanation breaks down the complete Caddo Lake timeline, family tree, time-travel mechanics, and ending — and shows how they all fit to...[Read More]

Hollow (2011): 84 Minutes of Wasted Potential

Hollow is a British found footage horror film directed by Michael Axelgaard, set in the rural Suffolk countryside. The genre has produced some genuinely remarkable work. This is not among it. Rather than tension or dread, Hollow delivers 84 minutes of familiar tropes, paper-thin characters, and jump scares so scarce you begin to wonder if the film forgot it was supposed to be scary. Wo kann man Ho...[Read More]

Deadstream (2022): One Haunted House. One Livestream. One Very Bad Night.

Horror and social media. The combination has been done before — Unfriended, Friend Request, Cam, Searching. Some landed. Some didn’t. The genre has enough failures to make you sceptical of every new entry that arrives wearing a ring light. Deadstream is the exception. Written and directed by the husband-and-wife team Joseph and Vanessa Winter — with Joseph also playing the lead — it’s ...[Read More]

Host (2020): 56 Minutes. One Zoom Call. Hold Your Breath.

Host is a horror film shot entirely during the COVID-19 lockdown, set on Zoom, and running to just 56 minutes. All of which invites a reasonable suspicion: that what we’re dealing with is a novelty — a pandemic experiment held together by circumstance rather than craft. That suspicion doesn’t survive the first act. Where to Watch Host? Powered by JustWatch What Host Is About Six friend...[Read More]

Searching (2018): A Father. A Screen. And a Daughter Who Vanished Without a Trace.

In the missing-person thriller Searching, director Aneesh Chaganty makes a choice that sounds like a gimmick — and turns out to be a masterstroke: everything the audience sees takes place exclusively on the screens of computers, laptops, and smartphones. What could have been a formal exercise becomes something far more unsettling. Because we already live there. And that’s exactly what makes ...[Read More]