The films

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Hell House LLC

A team building a Halloween haunted attraction in a real abandoned hotel, and the footage is all that is left.

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Deadstream

A disgraced livestreamer broadcasts himself alone in a haunted house for the clout, and gets exactly what he deserves.

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Lake Mungo

Barely a horror film for an hour. Then there is a shot on a mobile phone people do not forget.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

A web-streaming crew live-broadcast from a real abandoned Korean hospital for the views.

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Noroi: The Curse

A documentary film-maker investigates a demon called Kagutaba and does not come back.

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Incantation

A Taiwanese found-footage film built around a curse the film itself tries to pass to you.

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Skinamarink

Ninety minutes of ceilings and corners at 4am. Either the scariest thing you have seen or nothing at all.

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One Cut of the Dead

Sit through the rough first 37 minutes. That instruction is the whole review and it is worth obeying.

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The Medium

Thai-Korean, a documentary crew following a shaman, and the last twenty minutes are relentless.

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Host

Shot over lockdown on Zoom in twelve weeks, runs 56 minutes, and is better than it has any right to be.

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Shutter

A photographer starts finding a figure in his negatives. The reveal about the neck pain is the best in Asian horror.

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Creep

Two actors, a cabin and a camera. Mark Duplass is the most unsettling thing in modern horror.

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Late Night with the Devil

A 1977 Halloween talk show broadcast, live, going wrong. David Dastmalchian finally gets a lead.

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The Bay

Barry Levinson made a found-footage eco-horror about a Chesapeake town and parasitic isopods.

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Man Bites Dog

A Belgian film crew follow a serial killer and gradually start holding the equipment for him.

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REC 2

The sequel picks up minutes after the first, sends a SWAT team into the sealed building, and reframes the whole outbreak.

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Troll Hunter

Norwegian students follow a poacher who turns out to hunt state-secret trolls. Deadpan and enormous.

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As Above, So Below

A descent into the Paris catacombs that becomes a descent into hell, shot for real under the city.

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What We Do in the Shadows

The funniest vampire film ever made, and the flatmate politics are observed perfectly.

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REC

A Barcelona apartment block, a news crew, and eighty minutes with no let-up.

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Sinister

The super-8 reels are the film. Everything between them is a man in an office not turning the lights on.

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Cannibal Holocaust

Found footage nineteen years before Blair Witch, and six animals actually died to make its point.

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Cloverfield

A monster attacks New York, filmed on a camcorder from street level, and the marketing invented a genre of mystery.

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Paranormal Activity

15,000 dollars into 193 million, and a decade of imitators nobody asked for.

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The Blair Witch Project

Cost about 60,000 dollars, took nearly 250 million, and shows you nothing at any point.