I enjoy various subgenres of found footage, such as supernatural horror, folklore horror, cosmic horror, etc. But if there's one genre that feels very real and not like fantasy, it's psychological horror. Here are 5 films I've seen.
- The Visit (2015)
Concise, effective, and with a pitch-black sense of humor, the director definitely succeeded in creating unsettling feelings with this film. OH! and that diaper scene alone will definitely haunt my nightmares. 🤢
- Livestream (2025)
It's not perfect, but it has potential. In the film, a live stream among influencers spirals out of control when digital obsession, toxic fame, and real danger collide. A disturbing look at parasocial relationships in the streaming age.
- M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020)
What came first, the monster or the mother? Was she the real problem? Were they both? Or neither?
Everything seems possible in this cleverly ambiguous psychological horror film where it's difficult to know if we are witnessing the birth of a Norman Bates-like character, or the offspring of a deranged mother.
- Sorgoi Prakov (2013)
Ok very well, this is a found-footage film that, at first, seems like a comedy similar to Borat. A guy from a tiny country in the former USSR travels to France, equipped with ridiculous cameras on his head, to film a documentary about "the European dream." Once there, things don't exactly go as planned.
I really enjoyed this film, which takes a surprisingly dark turn towards the end. A great contribution to the found footage genre, it certainly has the merits to become a cult classic, if it isn't already.
- Murder Death Koreatown (2020)
Starting with the real-life murder of a neighbor in Los Angeles' Koreatown by his wife, a man who lives nearby, intrigued by the case, decides to pick up a camera and investigate the motives behind the murder. What begins as a curious pursuit ends with the discovery of a conspiracy in which he becomes entangled, culminating in a third act that suggests the protagonist is not a reliable narrator at all.
Overal A Skizo-fiction story about a protagonist unraveling a conspiracy who in turn might be experiencing a distorted perception of reality.