Found footage horror is one of those subgenres that people either love or absolutely cannot stand, and I am sort of in the middle, as there are a lot of bad ones, but when found footage works, it works well.
These are some of the more recent found footage releases that I've enjoyed and think are worth checking out.
The Night Is Young
Nora is a vlogger looking for love, until she meets a vampire named Emilia, who is being hunted by a leather-clad group of vampire hunters, where they have to race the clock to escape the hunters before the sun rises.
The Night Is Young is a sort of found footage hybrid movie that features a few different genres, including romance, but I am including it as I quite liked it, especially for a low budget effort, and it's quite a clever film I thought with a confidence to it you don't often see with these low budget efforts.
It's more of a character driven vampire film rather than your usual typical vampire horror, with some half decent cinematography thrown in as well.
The Decedent
A young mortician is confronted by a supernatural force while working on the body of a recently deceased serial killer.
A bit of a slow burner, with a first half that might test your patience, but The Decedent is a focused found footage movie with a swift runtime of 80 minutes, featuring some good attention to detail and slow burn tension in the mortuary setting.
Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project
A crew of documentarians chronicle an amateur filmmaker's quest to make the world's greatest found footage horror film.
This is probably one of the most entertaining entries here, as it's funny, self-aware, and clearly made by people who understand exactly why found footage fans enjoy the genre in the first place, and while some parts feel a bit predictable and drag, but the comedy to horror slow reveal and the story make up for it.
The Creep Tapes
It explores a collection of video tapes from a serial killer who hires victims under false pretenses to film him. Each episode features a new victim.
OK, slight cheat here, as these are TV episodes, but both seasons are enjoyable and worth watching, so if you're already a fan of the Creep films, this is exactly the sort of thing you'll want more of, and what I continue to love about this franchise is how uncomfortable it makes the most ordinary interactions feel - minimalist dread done so incredibly well, where Mark Duplass remains one of the most uniquely unsettling people working in horror.
Milk & Serial
A surprise birthday prank takes a turn for the worse when a popular social media duo must face the reality of the terrifying aftermath.
YouTube content creator turned director extraordinaire Curry Barker is all the rage right now with his current film Obsession killing in in 2026 at the box office, but a couple of years ago he also did a decent 60 minute or so found footage movie titled Milk & Serial, which he put on YouTube for free.
It's basic and simple, and shows what you can do with a very very low budget (Under $1k).