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Movies that are shot in order to resemble actual camera footage recovered from an event. Typically contain a fair bit of Stylistic Suck, owing to the conceit that, in-universe, they are being filmed by people who aren't professional filmmakers.
Initially becoming a sensation after The Blair Witch Project (though the concept goes back to Cannibal Holocaust in The Seventies), the subgenre saw a resurgence in popularity starting at the end of the Turn of the Millennium within the Horror genre thanks to the success of Paranormal Activity. Other recent, non-horror films utilizing the format include Chronicle and Project X, as well as the TV series The River.
Compare Mockumentary, Based on a True Story.
- Alien Abduction Incident in Lake County
- The Amityville Haunting
- Apollo 18
- August Underground
- The Blair Witch Project
- Cannibal Holocaust
- Chronicle
- Cloverfield
- Diary of the Dead
- The Fourth Kind
- Grave Encounters
- Home Movie
- Lake Mungo
- The Last Broadcast
- The Last Exorcism
- Lost Tapes (a TV series)
- Man Bites Dog
- Megan Is Missing
- Noroi the Curse
- Paranormal Activity
- The Poughkeepsie Tapes
- Project X
- Quarantine
- REC
- The River (another TV series)
- Tape 407
- The Troll Hunter
- Windigo
- Zero Day