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Best Found Footage Movies on Netflix

Every found footage movie streaming on Netflix in the US right now — 9 films ranked by rating, checked against Netflix’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Netflix US

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Host (2020)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 98% Letterboxd 3.2 0h 56m

Directed by Rob Savage

✦ MovieMuse AI takeZoom's grid layout becomes claustrophobic horror device—each participant's isolation amplifies dread across synchronized screens.

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. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.

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Creep 2 (2017)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 20m

Directed by Patrick Brice

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntimate single-camera dynamic weaponizes viewer complicity; we're trapped watching predator-prey dynamic unfold in real-time.

After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.

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Deadstream (2022)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 92% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 28m

Directed by Vanessa Winter

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLivestream format's chat interaction creates parasocial urgency; audience watches influencer's descent through comments and viewer count collapse.

A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally unleashes a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.

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Creep (2014)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 22m

Directed by Patrick Brice

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHandheld camera becomes unreliable narrator; incremental reveals of subject's true nature exploit found footage's intimacy and false trust.

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Incantation (2022)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 51m

Directed by Kevin Ko

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInterwoven TikTok and home video fragments create fragmented curse narrative—format itself becomes symptom of possession's psychological unraveling.

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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A Classic Horror Story (2021)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 55% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 35m

Directed by Roberto De Feo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGopro aesthetic trapped in found-footage nightmare—rescue footage and footage *within* footage layers reality into recursive panic.

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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Viral (2016)

IMDb 5.5 🍅 56% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 26m

Directed by Henry Joost

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRaw quarantine documentation weaponizes mundane home-video authenticity; intimate family footage transforms into apocalyptic endgame record.

Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.

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Silent House (2011)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 42% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 26m

Directed by Chris Kentis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSingle unbroken take demands found-footage discipline; real-time camera captures claustrophobic house space with no editing escape.

Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home.

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Wrinkles the Clown (2019)

IMDb 4.9 🍅 68% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 15m

Directed by Michael Beach Nichols

✦ MovieMuse AI takeViral folklore collage—blended TikToks, police footage, interviews create authentic digital-age mythology about manufactured terror spreading.

In Florida, parents can hire Wrinkles the Clown to scare their misbehaving children.

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