Found Footage Horror Movies of the 2020s
Found footage presents the story as recovered recordings, with raw, documentary-style dread. Streaming-era horror: pandemic-set chillers, body-horror comebacks and new auteurs. Standouts from the 2020s include Backrooms, V/H/S/MIXTAPE and Exit 8.
Backrooms (2026)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
See where it’s streamingV/H/S/MIXTAPE (2026)
Rated 4.5 on TMDB
V/H/S/MIXTAPE cranks the volume on horror with a blood-soaked collection of cursed music videos, terrifying performances, and found footage. Press play. Pray it stops.
See where it’s streamingExit 8 (2025)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary.
See where it’s streamingTalk to Me (2023)
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
See where it’s streamingundertone (2026)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.
See where it’s streamingThe Medium (2021)
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.
See where it’s streamingLate Night with the Devil (2024)
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
See where it’s streamingInfirmary (2026)
Rated 5.1 on TMDB
A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital in 2023. His bodycam footage shows unexplainable incidents that continue to baffle investigators.
See where it’s streamingGood Boy (2025)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows.
See where it’s streamingIncantation (2022)
Rated 6.9 on TMDB
Six years ago, Li Ronan was cursed after breaking a religious taboo. Now, she must protect her daughter from the consequences of her actions.
See where it’s streamingMissing Child Videotape (2025)
Rated 7.5 on TMDB
Keita discovers a missing boy in the woods and soon receives a mysterious videotape from his estranged mother.
See where it’s streamingKINKI (2025)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
After an editor of an occult magazine suddenly vanishes, his friend Chihiro and his co-worker Yusei set out to discover the reason behind his disappearance.
See where it’s streamingV/H/S/Halloween (2025)
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
See where it’s streamingHost (2020)
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.
See where it’s streamingThe Dark and the Wicked (2020)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is…
See where it’s streamingParanormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community.
See where it’s streamingPresence (2025)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them.
See where it’s streamingV/H/S/94 (2021)
Rated 6.1 on TMDB
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of…
See where it’s streamingHell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties.
See where it’s streamingBodycam (2026)
Rated 6.0 on TMDB
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
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