Every found footage movie streaming on Shudder in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Shudder’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Shudder US
Directed by Shinichiro Ueda
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe meta-brilliance: found footage exposes the seam between performance and reality when scripted horror collides with authentic terror.
Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.
Directed by Lesley Manning
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBBC's broadcast-as-found-footage exploit institutional credibility, weaponizing live television's perceived authenticity to destabilize viewers.
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
Directed by Cameron Cairnes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLive talk-show format traps audience and evil alike in real-time transmission, collapsing the boundary between performer safety and viewer vulnerability.
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Directed by Koji Shiraishi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeObsessive documentary structure—interviews, stills, newsreels—methodically constructs paranormal evidence through accumulated media fragments.
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.
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.
Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHandheld immersion captures shamanistic ritual and possession as visceral, uncontrolled event rather than edited spectacle.
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.
Directed by Stephen Cognetti
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLayered documentary framework—interviews plus archival footage—reconstructs disaster with devastating found-footage authenticity.
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
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.
Directed by Chris LaMartina
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVHS timestamp decay mirrors investigation's degradation, making technical failure integral to supernatural dread and evidence corruption.
A local TV personality leads a team of supernatural investigators, including an exorcist, into the darkest corners of a supposedly haunted house.
Directed by Stephen Cognetti
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCold-case documentary format weaponizes audience expectation of solved mysteries, inverting investigation into entrapment.
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. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is discovered on their footage is even more disturbing than anything found on the Hell House tapes.
Directed by Adam Robitel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMedical surveillance footage organically transforms into horror, weaponizing intimate caregiver documentation.
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
Directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko
✦ MovieMuse AI takePhone-mounted narcissism becomes found footage's ultimate subject: killer documents himself documenting his crimes in recursive self-capture.
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
Directed by Ruggero Deodato
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRecontextualized archive transforms ethnographic pretense into moral accusation, the found footage itself indicting the filmmakers.
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Directed by Jordan Downey
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVHS anthology's infinite-regression concept weaponizes format itself—each tape's playback threatens to birth new horrors from viewing.
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.
Directed by Bryan M. Ferguson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHalloween-themed VHS collection resurrects analog decay aesthetics as temporal gateway where holiday trauma bleeds across decades.
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
Directed by Josh Ruben
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntimate two-person storytelling weaponizes narrative suggestion itself, making fiction manifesto as performers verbally conjure horror into existence.
During a power outage, two strangers tell scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life in the dark of a Catskills cabin. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller.
Directed by Jennifer Reeder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSWAT-cam raid footage exposes found footage's power to transform institutional procedure into descent into cultist labyrinth.
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 pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Directed by Natasha Kermani
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocumentary framing device authenticates five discrete horrors through archival presentation, each tape's decay lending false historical weight.
Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey through the grim underbelly of the forgotten 1980s.
Directed by Stephen Cognetti
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJournalist's investigative reboot of prior tragedy resurrects unresolved footage, letting archived horror corrupt new investigation.
Eight years after the opening night tragedy of HELL HOUSE LLC, many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, an investigative journalist is convinced that key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel. She assembles a team to break into the hotel in hopes of discovering the truth. But the source of the tip and the secrets of the Abaddon Hotel are more horrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Directed by Steven DeGennaro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-reflexive 3D gimmick becomes trap: filmmakers documenting found footage horror discover they're filming it in real-time.
A group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie, but find themselves IN the first 3D found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage.
Directed by Kim Jin-won
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUrban legend about ghost-shot film becomes recursive: director documents obsessive search for haunted movie within her own haunted documentary.
A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.
Directed by Damien Leone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBabysitter-framed VHS discovery transforms domestic Halloween into anthology portal where taped terrors invade secure suburban space.
While watching two children on Halloween night, a babysitter finds an old VHS tape in the kids' trick or treat bag. The tape features three tales of terror, all linked together by a murderous clown.
Directed by Joseph Winter
✦ MovieMuse AI takePunk-era VHS aesthetics capture pre-digital recklessness, where home video's moral innocence masks creeping supernatural contamination.
A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.
Directed by Stephen Cognetti
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSequel escalation through paranormal livestreaming format comments reflect collective audience witnessing.
Set one year after the events of Hell House LLC II, the hotel is on the verge of being torn down when it is purchased by billionaire Russell Wynn as the new home for his popular interactive show, Insomnia. He invites journalist Venessa Sheppard and her crew to record everything happening inside the hotel leading up to the performance - but they soon encounter a more nefarious plot, one that threatens to unleash a veritable hell on earth.
Directed by Brandon Christensen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBodycam's institutional gaze—designed for accountability—captures unaccountable tragedy, the format's objectivity becoming complicit documentation.
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.
Directed by David Amito
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCursed-film framing device authenticates degraded 1970s footage as genuinely dangerous artifact.
Rumored to have been lost, Antrum appears as a cursed film from the 1970s. Viewers are warned to proceed with caution. It’s said to be a story about a young boy and girl who enter the forest in an attempt to save the soul of their recently deceased pet. They journey to “The Antrum,” the very spot the devil landed after being cast out of heaven. There, the children begin to dig a hole to hell.
Directed by Jabbar Raisani
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilitary documentary convention legitimizes alien-invasion footage as wartime correspondence, grounding sci-fi dread in photojournalistic convention.
A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.
Directed by Adam Krause
✦ MovieMuse AI takeClown encounter footage fragments across four witnessing groups, multi-perspective format suggesting coordinated haunting spreading through video documentation.
It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.
Directed by Bryan Norton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVHS-delivered horror anthology escalates from taped tales into killer emerging from tape itself, format boundary collapsing.
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.
Directed by John Alan Schwartz
✦ MovieMuse AI takeExploitative death-footage anthology treats found documentation as mortality catalog, making the archive itself the ghastly subject.
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.
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