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The Possession of Michael King is one that goes unnoticed. Deadstream is also really good, genuinely funny. And thank you for not including Lake Mungo. I seriously have no idea why people find that movie so scary. It's not, in my humble opinion. 😎Nice list!
I will probably have the most controversial movie in my top 5 and that's pretty much the reason i want to share the top 😂 1. Paranormal Activity (whole franchise as well) 2. Blair Witch (2016) 3. Unfriended (2014) 4. Dashcam (Absolutely feel no shame for loving it THAT much) 5. Incantation
Girl, the way I knew your top 2 since the beginning of the video says it all lol. Forever grateful for the Gonjiam recommendation, still one of my fav horror of all time!
Hell House LLC is the last movie that genuinely made me feel uneasy and scared and I haven't been able to grasp that feeling again with another movie and I've seen pretty much all found footage and horror movies out there is sad
Hey Sarah. Just you know, there was a special Blair Witch Project release in the EU, which features A LOT of deleted scenes as a bonus. A fan has been working hard and has incorporated these cut scenes into the original movie. What we got is a 3 hour The Blair Witch Project film which is just amazing. I definitely think the original cut is still the best (sometimes less is more), but damn if it isn't fun. It's soo great seeing what was left on the cutting room floor and how much it adds to the characters. Definitely suggest a watch for a Blair Witch fan like yourself. :)
So happy to see ‘As Above so Below’ so high ! It is my favourite FF ever ! It is terrifying and after visiting the catacombs in Paris, it just hit differently lol
The slowest of slow burns.. but it works as a whole - in fact, there are segments within that series that outdoes a lot of huge titles in terms of outright eerieness.
Yes, please do a video of movies set in asylums or abandoned hospitals. One of my very favorites and definitely underrated and hardly ever discussed, Session 9. Which took place in the real Danvers Hospital.
That movie traumatized me... Physiologically.. and Ive seen some fucked up stuff in my life.. in real life. But that movie made me feel like I was going crazy.
watched gonjiam for the first time on your rec a few weeks ago. it was the first horror film where i had to literally cover my face when That One Scene happened, the whole way through. a whole new level of scared, ty!
My top 25 found footage movies. 1.Creep 2 2.Creep 3. Be My Cat 4. The Blair Witch Project 5. Capture Kill Release 6. Lake Mungo 7. We're All Going to the Worlds Fair 8 . Butterfly Kisses 9. WNUF Halloween Special 10. The McPherson Tape 11. America's Deadliest Home Video 12. The houses October Built 13. Unknown Visitor 14. The Blackwell Ghost 15. As Above So Below 16. The Collingswood Story 17. The Andy Baker Tape 18. VHS99 19. Ghostwatch 20. The Last Broadcast 21. Noroi 22. VHS 23. Milk & Serial 24. The Out the Halloween Mega Tape 25. Bad Ben 7: Haunted Highway
Hey, don't know if you've seen it but The Last Horror Movie is a really cool found footage film. Not well known, but really gritty and brutal. Think you have to take it with a pinch of salt, especially given the premise.
5- paranormal activity 3 4- hell house llc 3- Yule log 2- hell house llc origins 1- behind the mask the rise of Leslie Vernon Obviously I don’t watch enough found footage, I stand by my top two and maybe 3? but the rest would probably change if I watched more😅
I was thinking about it too cuz I thought it was gonna be at least top 15, but the closer you look at it, the story is kinda average. Nothing new or impactful tbh I think she was going off of story/impact and PT really didn't experiment much besides having Stockholm syndrome for the main girl being captured
My top 5: 1. Rec 2. Paranormal activity 3. Grave encounters 2 4. Paranormal activity 2 5. As above so below After listening to your praises about Gonjiam, I will finally try to get it watched in the next few days. Thank you for the recommendation! Greetings from a Bulgarian fan! 🇧🇬
Another Bulgarian subscriber :))) Gonjiam was impossible to find in Europe. I bought my DVD from Amazon US. Now there is an awesome blu ray edition from Second Sight 😊
One thing about Sarah, she's gonna be mentiong Gonjiam, Blair Witch and the Ring (not in this video, but you know what I mean haha) I truly love your recommendations and lately I've been reading a lotof the books you mention in the channel and I'm obsessed. Maybe we can get get another book related video soon?? 😄
Can't wait for more book content. Also, I watched The Borderlands for the first time (for some reason) after this video. It was the only thing on the list I hadn't seen. I'm just sad now. I was like, oh, it's a found footage with John Oliver vibes at first, lol. But no lol is going on now.
omg i’m so pumped for this! because of you i’ve come to really looove found footage and i’m always looking for more recommendations so i’m excited to watch!
I mean the trilogy ( Noroi: the curse, Occult, and cult ) is good overall! I say trilogy because they seem connected ( and same producer/ director I think! ) They are all on youtube and sometimes on Tubi!
My top favourites is: 1. Possession of Michael King. 2. REC 3. The Last Exorcism 4. The Taking of Deborah Logan 5. Grave Encounters 6. Paranormal activity 7. Blare witch Project 8. The fourth Kind 9. As above so below 10. The house October built 😂😂😂 I couldn't think of only 5 and these aren't in order.
After hearing you recommend Gonjiam haunted asylum about a thousand times, I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about literally just last night… and it did not disappoint😭. Tbh I’m one of those people who can’t really get into found footage horror. I’m not a horror snob or judgemental of people’s preferences by any means, but if the script and line delivery aren’t convincing to me, it’s hard for me to feel “scared”, even if the visuals are scary… and because the genre is so budget friendly, you’re more likely to experience not-so-great acting/writing compared to other sub-genres (not saying low budget films can’t be great). That being said, Gonjiam definitely got me. Once the second half popped off, I was genuinely creeped tf out and had to force myself not to be like🫣LOL. The film being foreign might’ve helped me out a little because frankly, if I’m not a native speaker of a films language, “bad” acting is far more likely to go right over my head😭. Either way, I’m definitely going to explore more foreign found footage now👍.
5. Butterfly Kisses -- I love the documentary-within-a-documentary style. 4. The Tunnel -- Honestly, I just wanted to list a movie that's not on your list. That said, I really do love this film. 3. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum -- South Korea has made some damn amazing horror films, and this one happens to be found footage! 2. [REC] -- What is there left to say about this one? It's a must watch. 1. Hell House LLC -- That scene with the fucking clown in the hallway... Great jump scare, or greatest jump scare?
@@fisheyenomiko It is a mockumentary, but the footage has also been found-well, found photographs. So, I'm counting it because there's no way to do "found photographs" without wrapping it in a mockumentary. Also, it's one of the best horror movies ever.
A lot of people wrote this movie off but I've always enjoyed Apollo 18. It has such an isolating feeling, as it should given it takes place on the damn moon, lol.
15. The Conspiracy 14. Creep 2 13. Grave Encounters 12. The Dirties 11. The Taking of Deborah Logan 10. The Blair Witch Project 9. Sorgoi Prakov 8. The Tunnel 7. What We Do in the Shadows 6. Cloverfield 5. Creep 4. Zero Day 3. Lake Mungo 2. Troll Hunter 1. Rec
Found footage is my favorite horror subgenre, so it’s awesome to see a great horror content creator like you give it some praise! My personal favorite is Host. Incredibly scary and it's amazing what they managed to create in the break of the pandemic.
I rewatched Grave Encounters recently and it still holds up. It’s so effectively scary to me. If you watch it at night with headphones on, there’s no way you don’t feel something in the room with you.
Milk & Serial was so unexpected, yet so satisfying of a watch. I believe you recommended it on one of your videos more recently and I can't thank you enough to the recommendation.
I have the same top two picks as this list but in reverse order. Part of the fun of Hell House LLC is watching how much the filmmakers were able to do with such a small budget.
I love how much you love these movies. The first half of this video is just you feeling bad for ranking movies so low, it’s adorable 😂. I also love how high As Above, So Below is ranked. Such a great movie, for me it’s a quintessential “nothing groundbreaking, but a simple idea executed really well” kind of movie. And as a bonus, the lead character reminded me a lot of Lara Croft 😂.
Haha I always love your rankings: Here’s mine 5. The Houses October Built 1& 2 4. Gonjiam Haunted Asylum 3. Grave encounters 1 2. Blair Witch 1. Hell House LLC Fun fact I’ve mentioned here before but Blair Witch and Butterfly Kisses were filmed in and around my hometown of Ellicott City, Maryland and the Bay is supposed to take place in Maryland as well even though it was filmed in North and South Carolina and also Grave Encounters is supposed to be filmed at an asylum called Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital but it was actually filmed in British Columbia. 😉 Love your channel and videos as as always and Happy Holidays to you and your family 🥰🎄🎉
Great video Sarah! Unfriended is a great movie so I'm glad you have it on this list. I've seen almost all these movies except: Phoenix Forgotten, Incantation, Quarantine (though I've seen Rec so I don't plan to watch it), Milk & Serial (I plan to watch this one), Host, Blair Witch 2016, The Last Exorcism, and The Blair Witch Project. I guess I'm a Found Footage girlie😂
Believe it or not, the first "screenlife" film (ala Unfriended) was "The Collingswood Story", which was made in 2002. Yeah, this genre is actually over 20 years old!
I'm so happy you watched Incantation! As a Taiwanese, many people really liked this movie locally, too. The first few seconds explaining the psychological effects scare tf out of me xD I watched it with a friend because I can't finish it alone
Thank you for talking about found footage so much. You have introduced me to the genre, and it is now one of my favorite sub genres! Thank you! Love Blair Witch Project, Willow Creek, Creep and Butterfly Kisses. Also I recommend "They're Watching".
I finally watched Gonjiam! I commented last night on another video you mentioned it in, I love alllllll your same movies. I was in a really bad headspace, sleep deprived, crying (break up), had a headache. I was a little Disappointed, but I was aware I wasn’t in the right place, so today I watched an ending explained version feelings better. And you were right. I didn’t get it. I knew I didn’t get it. But yeah it was definitely good
I can at least give a top three: 1) Noroi: The Curse 2) Lake Mungo 3) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum I know I loved Cloverfield when it came out, and The Poughkeepsie Tapes was terrifying (home invasion is the subgenre that scares me most), but I watched both of those like 10+ years ago so idk how they hold up. I was also freaked out by The Fourth Kind, but it's REALLY pushing it to call that one found footage lol.
Idk who hires these people to rank movies it’s mind blowing to me how unqualified the people making these lists are working for these big companies. I always refer to RUclips aka this channel for rankings. And these sites never have good recommendations either always mainstream ones I already know about. So grateful for ur channel!
No love for Deadstream is crazy. Actually its in my top 5 found footage horror movies of all time. Here are my 5 list: 1) Noroi: The Curse 2) Incantation 3) REC (Spanish) 4) Deadstream 5) Lake Mungo
As a Taiwanese, I'm so glad everyone likes Incantation😂 An internet celebrity said she was adopted to one of these religious homes. She was found n*ked in a cage, and transferred to another home. Even tied to a table as some sort of sacrifice. The fact that these things actually happen here is terrifying to me😨
I just came across your channel. I'm loving it! I haven't seen a whole lot of found footage, but this is my top 10. 10. The Visit 9. REC 8. The Taking of Deborah Logan 7. Late Night with the Devil 6. V/H/S 5. Deadstream 4. The Outwaters 3. Host 2. The Blairwitch Project 1. Paranormal Activity
yeah I was definitely gagged lake mungo wasn't in there lmao, my top 5 would be like 1. Lake Mungo 2. Gonjiam 3. Noroi 4. As Above So Below 5. The Tunnel
I always check your reviews on movies I'm not sure whether I'd like or not, because I've find we rarely disagree on films and when we do I'm always shocked because it's so often consistent. Found Footage has become my favorite and I've found so many good ones because of you. I think I found you because of Skinamarink after I saw it in theater and was looking for people's thoughts, it's one of my top 4 favorite movies. Your recs that come to my mind that I now adore; Gonjiam Asylum (definitely one of the scariest movies I've ever seen), Host, Incantation, Rec, Deadstream, Lake Mungo, and the V/H/S movies. Anyways, super thankful for your content - you're my number one go to for horror reviews.
I always trust your reviews and opinions cuz we have the same top favorite found footage movies! I haven’t started the video yet but I already know it’s awesome.
While I don’t have any desire to watch Megan Is Missing again I actually think it’s such a terrifying movie. It’s not a movie I would recommend in the sense that I think it’s such a iffy topic but it’s very effective
@ the movie is quite unnecessary itself. The acting is bad and the characters do the most unrealistic stuff. The last 15 to 20 min of the movie are the only thing i consider horrifying to the point I think it’s the only scary part of the movie.
It's more of a mockumentary than found footage, even more so I'd say it's found photographs, but I highly recommend Savageland 2015 to you! I think it's on tubi and I believe I saw it on yt too 👀 It really got under my skin and has some of my favorite horror imagery of all time. I love your love of Blair witch project, it's one of my faves
Top 5: 5. The Taking of Deborah Logan- I knew it was fake(obviously they all are) cause of the one actress in this movie so I wasn’t immursed but the end of this movie… 4. Grave Encounters-this movie is a bit cheesy in the beginning but the second half of it i’d say is still memorable 3. Hell House LLC- what freaks me out about this movie is that I don’t live too far from the real location of this place and it is supposedly haunted in real life. 2. VHS- classic. The first 2 I liked but I saw one of the newer ones and I thought the beginning was stupid so I turned it off(I don’t remember which one it was but it was newer) 1. Gonjiam: Haunted Aslyum- my husband and I watched it and both of us got so freaked out for a few days after watching it. **this was hard but honorable mentions go to As Above So Below and The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Hot take but I am not a big fan of The Blair Witch Project, however, I liked Blair Witch(2016) a lot more 😂
I'm going to go with something a little different: My top five movies that weren't on your list. 1. Exhibit A: A devoted family man living in a pretty nice house is anticipating a big promotion and the purchase of a much nicer house. The family is anticipating moving from middle class to upper middle class. When the promotion doesn't come through as expected he slowly goes off the rails. I have a belief that good genre stories area always about something else in addition to what they're about on the surface. This is a movie about how some men define their entire identity around being a "good provider" and what happens when they believe that identity is threatened. 2. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne: A young eastern European man is convinced he needs to become a filmmaker. In an attempt to attract Anne Hathaway to star in his movie, he hires unknown local actresses to star in his audition film, which turns out to be, well, exactly what it appears to be. 3. Several episodes of Inside Number 9, most notably Cold Comfort and Mulberry Close. Cold Comfort takes place almost entirely on the computer screen of a counselor at a suicide prevention hotline. Mulberry Close consists entirely of footage from a motion-sensing security cam mounted on the front of the house of a couple that just moved into a neighborhood full of quirky characters. They're both 25 minute episodes of a TV show, so explaining anything else would risk spoilers. 4. Contracted: Warning: The inciting incident involves necrophilia and SA. Following a painful breakup with her girlfriend, a young woman is SA'd at a party and finds herself infected with a mysterious illness. It's a slow burn from there as she tries to come to terms with and figure out what's happening to her. This is a movie where one of the most effective scenes of horror involves someone making a salad. 5. Trollhunter: A reporter investigating reports of mysterious bear deaths discovers that the thing responsible is trolls. The neat thing about Trollhunter is that is bucks conventions by telling you pretty early on what's going on -- trolls are wandering the woods and the locals are trying to find and kill them -- and then it shows you the monsters early on and very clearly. The title tells you exactly what you're getting -- a group of hunters whose intended prey is trolls. Trolls the size of a two-story house. Honorable mention: Without Warning: It isn't technically found footage, but it's in line with movies where the entire story takes place on a screen in that it's presented as a faux Special Bulletin being broadcast live. Three meteors all hit the earth at the same time, evenly spaced around the Earth at the same latitude. We follow news coverage as things ramp up from there. And that ending, it's a doozy. This is available in full on RUclips, at least a couple of different uploads.
OMG BUTTERFLY KISSES!! I feel pretty desensitized by horror sometimes and I still think about this movie. The imagery is insane. I recommend it to everyone. I’m glad to see it getting love here because it’s not that well known!
I was so pleasantly surprised to see Incantation on here! Plus even more pleasantly surprised about As Above So Below's placement. It is probably my most rewatched comfort horror movie as well, always great to just throw on! Seriously great list though! I don't think there's anything I even disagree with haha😆 (Side note, I saw on letterboxd that you watched Paprika recently and rated it 5 stars and I'm literally over the moon that you enjoyed it since it is one of my all time favorite movies!! I'm so glad it ended up suiting your taste!)💚💚
I remember when you came out with that video 4 years ago. It was one of the first videos I watched of yours! This is super random but I’ve loved watching your hair journey throughout the years and think this color is PERFECT on you !
1.Blair Witch Project (the GOAT) 2.Gonjiam Haunted Asylum (The new age GOAT) 3.BBC's GhostWatch("live" found footage, incredibly well done) 4.Occult(zaniest found footage horror that's supernatural mystery) 5.Savageland(best mockumentary, feels like a real documentary, amazing dread building) 6.Cloverfield(GOAT nostalgia pick/the first horror movie I ever watched) If I allowed in series the Senritsu Kaiki Files would probably be number 2 for just being amazing tied in horror series of movies
I just found your channel and immediately subscribed so idk if you've already done this or not, but have you ever thought about making a video compiling movies you think a new horror fan should watch, or what every horror fanatic should watch at least once? Great video btw
I cant believe you’d pick paranormal activity over Hell House LLC. 😮 paranormal activity is ok (2nd one i like the most) but Hell House’s clown just makes me wanna look at my phone when those scenes come up.
if you’re not going to include gems like horror in the high desert & lake mungo in this ranking, i would recommend perhaps making a mocumentary tier list. horror in the high desert is phenomenal & deserves to be seen by more people. same with the blackwell ghost series.
i know it’s so obvious Blair Witch (1999) would be number 1 but man that movie is AMAZING me personally i love how slow and quiet everything is, the way the forest kinda becomes the antagonist to these people trapped in it’s ever expanding space and the house- dear the house is probably the scariest place I could think a horror movie would take place the marketing too, its just a genius film and rightfully so in number 1
i adore found footage movies and you actually listed a few i haven't seen because they are not available here in finland! In my top 10 are these movies: as above so below, the grave encounters ( 1-2), exists, the taking of deborah logan, host, rec, quarantine, the visit, paranormal activity & unfriended. If you count sinister is a found footage then that too. EDIT: I just finished the last exorcism and oh my gosh I LOVED it! Just ordered part 2 Blu-ray 😂
I love all the movies on this list except one. I'm amazed at some you didn't list, Spree, Evil Things, Europa Report, Followed, I have a LONG list lol anyway it's a great list but the one I don't love is Gonjiam Haunted Asylum and the reason I don't love it is I haven't watched it yet. I got a gorgeous looking black slipcase bluray set today with some kind of booklet in it and I'm really looking forward to watching it. So weird, I watch so many FF movies and still haven't seen this. Anyway another great video, thanks and good luck.
And agreed the first Blair Witch Project is one of the best movies ever made period. That’s number 1. Number 2 is Gonjiam, number 3 is the VHS series, number 4 is as above so below and number 5 is Hell House LLC.
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What are your top 5 found footage movies??
The Possession of Michael King is one that goes unnoticed. Deadstream is also really good, genuinely funny. And thank you for not including Lake Mungo. I seriously have no idea why people find that movie so scary. It's not, in my humble opinion. 😎Nice list!
The original Blair Witch freaked me the hell out, and then I was kind of immune to found footage after that lol
To date, "Blair Witch" 2016 & the original "The Blair Witch Project" are still my top 2 favorites. 😱
I found Afflicted on Amazon to purchase for 20 bucks..lol
I will probably have the most controversial movie in my top 5 and that's pretty much the reason i want to share the top 😂
1. Paranormal Activity (whole franchise as well)
2. Blair Witch (2016)
3. Unfriended (2014)
4. Dashcam (Absolutely feel no shame for loving it THAT much)
5. Incantation
Justice for Hell House LLC 🏁
That’s definitely in my top 5. So good!
yeah I agree the clowns in the first llc will always send shivers. the houses that october built is great too, but the sequel is redudant
Most underrated fs
FR!! That movie is good AND SCARY
Hell House LLC is for me what Gonjiam is for her lol
as a found footage lover, this video was made for me
You get me!
Girl, the way I knew your top 2 since the beginning of the video says it all lol. Forever grateful for the Gonjiam recommendation, still one of my fav horror of all time!
Yay!! Love that you guys know me so well I almost didn’t even have to make this video haha
Hell House LLC is the last movie that genuinely made me feel uneasy and scared and I haven't been able to grasp that feeling again with another movie and I've seen pretty much all found footage and horror movies out there is sad
Carmichael manor is genuinely one of the scariest late sequel movies I’ve ever seen-it’s genuinely so good for 4th movie in a small franchise
Yep definitely deserved to be in the top 10.
Found footage is so PEAK. I love almost all of these. Grave Encounters is so freaking underrated. It is my comfy guilty pleasure movie
As someone who became a fan of Richard Harmon the minute I saw Grave Encounters 2, I'm SO sad we don't have a third movie yet.
The elevator scene was so good
Justice for Lake Mungo
That movie has stuck with me since I watched it, something about it just lingers
I haven't been right since watching
Lake Mungo 🤕
One of my all time favorites
@@dylancalame8814 same here pal 💯
Hey Sarah. Just you know, there was a special Blair Witch Project release in the EU, which features A LOT of deleted scenes as a bonus. A fan has been working hard and has incorporated these cut scenes into the original movie. What we got is a 3 hour The Blair Witch Project film which is just amazing. I definitely think the original cut is still the best (sometimes less is more), but damn if it isn't fun. It's soo great seeing what was left on the cutting room floor and how much it adds to the characters. Definitely suggest a watch for a Blair Witch fan like yourself. :)
Did it just come out or what🤷♂️
I’ve been so bored with RUclips. I was waiting patiently for your next drop 😂
This is how I feel all the time :D Nothing hits like a PBH video
I wholeheartedly get what you feel.... 😅
So happy to see ‘As Above so Below’ so high ! It is my favourite FF ever ! It is terrifying and after visiting the catacombs in Paris, it just hit differently lol
Y'all should see Horror in the high desert (the whole saga). One of the scariest I've seen. So good
Absolutely this! It's become a favorite franchise of mine since I stumbled upon it
The slowest of slow burns.. but it works as a whole - in fact, there are segments within that series that outdoes a lot of huge titles in terms of outright eerieness.
Sarah's been ignoring Horror in the High Desert. Idk whyyy.
literally scrolled the comments just to see if someone else had as much love for horror in the high desert. a+ series, i need answers!
I've tried to watch the first one a few times and it's so boring?? I always give up. Does it get better? Should i push through?
Butterfly Kisses is so underrated, I've barely seen anyone talk about it even tho is both pretty creative and scary!
I have seen it
Yes, please do a video of movies set in asylums or abandoned hospitals. One of my very favorites and definitely underrated and hardly ever discussed, Session 9. Which took place in the real Danvers Hospital.
Yesssss
That movie traumatized me... Physiologically.. and Ive seen some fucked up stuff in my life.. in real life. But that movie made me feel like I was going crazy.
Oooh I'm gonna check that out!!
I hope she does a rating for The possession of Michael King ❤ very interesting found footage and scared me so much. It's from 2013 but it's so good!
hey y'all! for those who are curious afflicted is streaming in Canada prime video, hope this helps!!
It's an excellent film
Same with UK prime!
It's also rentable here on RUclips.
watched gonjiam for the first time on your rec a few weeks ago. it was the first horror film where i had to literally cover my face when That One Scene happened, the whole way through. a whole new level of scared, ty!
My top 25 found footage movies.
1.Creep 2
2.Creep
3. Be My Cat
4. The Blair Witch Project
5. Capture Kill Release
6. Lake Mungo
7. We're All Going to the Worlds Fair
8 . Butterfly Kisses
9. WNUF Halloween Special
10. The McPherson Tape
11. America's Deadliest Home Video
12. The houses October Built
13. Unknown Visitor
14. The Blackwell Ghost
15. As Above So Below
16. The Collingswood Story
17. The Andy Baker Tape
18. VHS99
19. Ghostwatch
20. The Last Broadcast
21. Noroi
22. VHS
23. Milk & Serial
24. The Out the Halloween Mega Tape
25. Bad Ben 7: Haunted Highway
Hey, don't know if you've seen it but The Last Horror Movie is a really cool found footage film. Not well known, but really gritty and brutal. Think you have to take it with a pinch of salt, especially given the premise.
5- paranormal activity 3
4- hell house llc
3- Yule log
2- hell house llc origins
1- behind the mask the rise of Leslie Vernon
Obviously I don’t watch enough found footage, I stand by my top two and maybe 3? but the rest would probably change if I watched more😅
1 Rec, 2 Blair witch project, 3 Troll hunter, 4 As above so below, 5 Gonjiam
I absolutely love Troll Hunter.
25. @2:19 Phoenix Forgotten
24. @2:52 Devil's Pass
23. @3:26 Hell House LLC
22. @3:51 The Borderlands
21. @4:35 The Sacrament
20. @5:18 V/H/S
19. @5:42 Incantation
18. @6:18 The Bay
17. @6:45 Quarantine
16. @7:33 Unfriended
15. @8:58 Milk & Serial
14. @9:48 Afflicted
13. @10:46 Creep
12. @11:45 REC
11. @12:32 Host
10. @13:29 Paranormal Activity
9. @13:54 Cloverfield
8. @14:37 Butterfly Kisses
7. @15:47 Taking of Deborah Logan
6. @16.24 Blair Witch
5. @17:00 Grave Encounters 1+2
4. @17:45 As Above So Below
3. @18:24 The Last Exorcism
2. @19:10 Gonjiam: Huanted Asylum
1. @20:19 The Blair Witch Project
I was looking for you 🎉
The Poughkeepsie Tapes is one of my personal favorites!
I was thinking about it too cuz I thought it was gonna be at least top 15, but the closer you look at it, the story is kinda average. Nothing new or impactful tbh
I think she was going off of story/impact and PT really didn't experiment much besides having Stockholm syndrome for the main girl being captured
Me too
My top 5:
1. Rec
2. Paranormal activity
3. Grave encounters 2
4. Paranormal activity 2
5. As above so below
After listening to your praises about Gonjiam, I will finally try to get it watched in the next few days. Thank you for the recommendation! Greetings from a Bulgarian fan! 🇧🇬
Another Bulgarian subscriber :))) Gonjiam was impossible to find in Europe. I bought my DVD from Amazon US. Now there is an awesome blu ray edition from Second Sight 😊
@zhivkopetrov6767 Haha, we live in a small world! Got an Instagram?
The medium
I feel like Paranormal Activity 1 is great and every one after is just so bad and boring
I've got REC at number 2 behind the OG Blair Witch. That movie goes HARD.
Good placements!!
REC 3 goes even harder
@@squeerpia _REC 4_ "fell off"… a cliff. 🤦
@@I.____.....__...__ 2 and 4 do not exists to me
One thing about Sarah, she's gonna be mentiong Gonjiam, Blair Witch and the Ring (not in this video, but you know what I mean haha) I truly love your recommendations and lately I've been reading a lotof the books you mention in the channel and I'm obsessed. Maybe we can get get another book related video soon?? 😄
Yes I’ll be doing a end of year recap!!
Can't wait for more book content. Also, I watched The Borderlands for the first time (for some reason) after this video. It was the only thing on the list I hadn't seen. I'm just sad now. I was like, oh, it's a found footage with John Oliver vibes at first, lol. But no lol is going on now.
omg i’m so pumped for this! because of you i’ve come to really looove found footage and i’m always looking for more recommendations so i’m excited to watch!
Ahh this makes me so happy!
Having Gonjiam on a top found footage horror list while not including Noroi: The Curse is just mind-boggling.
i think she hasnt seen that yet
I mean the trilogy ( Noroi: the curse, Occult, and cult ) is good overall! I say trilogy because they seem connected ( and same producer/ director I think! )
They are all on youtube and sometimes on Tubi!
My top favourites is:
1. Possession of Michael King.
2. REC
3. The Last Exorcism
4. The Taking of Deborah Logan
5. Grave Encounters
6. Paranormal activity
7. Blare witch Project
8. The fourth Kind
9. As above so below
10. The house October built
😂😂😂 I couldn't think of only 5 and these aren't in order.
After hearing you recommend Gonjiam haunted asylum about a thousand times, I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about literally just last night… and it did not disappoint😭. Tbh I’m one of those people who can’t really get into found footage horror. I’m not a horror snob or judgemental of people’s preferences by any means, but if the script and line delivery aren’t convincing to me, it’s hard for me to feel “scared”, even if the visuals are scary… and because the genre is so budget friendly, you’re more likely to experience not-so-great acting/writing compared to other sub-genres (not saying low budget films can’t be great). That being said, Gonjiam definitely got me. Once the second half popped off, I was genuinely creeped tf out and had to force myself not to be like🫣LOL. The film being foreign might’ve helped me out a little because frankly, if I’m not a native speaker of a films language, “bad” acting is far more likely to go right over my head😭. Either way, I’m definitely going to explore more foreign found footage now👍.
Dude my Pisces moon is my chart ruler and I FEEL YOU on the fever dream movies. They're the absolute best.
Hell yeah you get me haha
5. Butterfly Kisses -- I love the documentary-within-a-documentary style.
4. The Tunnel -- Honestly, I just wanted to list a movie that's not on your list. That said, I really do love this film.
3. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum -- South Korea has made some damn amazing horror films, and this one happens to be found footage!
2. [REC] -- What is there left to say about this one? It's a must watch.
1. Hell House LLC -- That scene with the fucking clown in the hallway... Great jump scare, or greatest jump scare?
I commented here my top 3 is practically the same 😂 nice
1. Savageland
2. Lake Mungo
3. Host
4. Paranormal Activity
5. The Possession of Michael King
yeessss savageland is so good!!!!
Dude I forgot about The Possession of Michael King that one is trippy and a great ending, dark and bleak just the way I like it. :D
Savageland for sure! Just saw it for the first time recently. Creepy AF
GDI, I forgot "Savageland"! Though I'd argue it's a mockumentary; as is "Lake Mungo".
@@fisheyenomiko It is a mockumentary, but the footage has also been found-well, found photographs. So, I'm counting it because there's no way to do "found photographs" without wrapping it in a mockumentary. Also, it's one of the best horror movies ever.
A lot of people wrote this movie off but I've always enjoyed Apollo 18. It has such an isolating feeling, as it should given it takes place on the damn moon, lol.
This movie really creeped me out. I have it on DVD. One of my faves.
15. The Conspiracy
14. Creep 2
13. Grave Encounters
12. The Dirties
11. The Taking of Deborah Logan
10. The Blair Witch Project
9. Sorgoi Prakov
8. The Tunnel
7. What We Do in the Shadows
6. Cloverfield
5. Creep
4. Zero Day
3. Lake Mungo
2. Troll Hunter
1. Rec
love for The Dirties, yes!
What we do in the shadows is one of my favorite movies.
Dayum thats a good list
Found footage is my favorite horror subgenre, so it’s awesome to see a great horror content creator like you give it some praise!
My personal favorite is Host. Incredibly scary and it's amazing what they managed to create in the break of the pandemic.
Noroi, Poughkeepsie tapes and Deadstream are on my list. But Blair witch is my number 1, no doubt. Frogman was quite good.
A fellow Noroi Enjoyer I see
I rewatched Grave Encounters recently and it still holds up. It’s so effectively scary to me. If you watch it at night with headphones on, there’s no way you don’t feel something in the room with you.
Milk & Serial was so unexpected, yet so satisfying of a watch. I believe you recommended it on one of your videos more recently and I can't thank you enough to the recommendation.
Too b movie for me
Bruh poor Hell House LLC done dirty
I have the same top two picks as this list but in reverse order.
Part of the fun of Hell House LLC is watching how much the filmmakers were able to do with such a small budget.
I'm in Canada and Afflicted is on prime here. (:
I was gonna say it's in the UK prime too
Also in Australia 🇦🇺
Sarah, have you watched The Medium?? It’s also found footage one, this is Thailand one and under a South Korean production.
heavily agree this was crazy
My forever favourite horror movie. Every re-watch is a treat and i somehow still scare myself despite having watched it so many times
1:Blair Witch Project 2:Blair Witch 2016 3:Rec 4 :Alien Abduction 5: Lake Mungo 6: Bigfoot the lost coast tapes 7: Paranormal Activity- the marked ones
I love how much you love these movies. The first half of this video is just you feeling bad for ranking movies so low, it’s adorable 😂.
I also love how high As Above, So Below is ranked. Such a great movie, for me it’s a quintessential “nothing groundbreaking, but a simple idea executed really well” kind of movie. And as a bonus, the lead character reminded me a lot of Lara Croft 😂.
So many of these are already on my watchlist including the Bay. I 100% just wrote on my calendar to watch that one on the 4th.
Haha I always love your rankings:
Here’s mine
5. The Houses October Built 1& 2
4. Gonjiam Haunted Asylum
3. Grave encounters 1
2. Blair Witch
1. Hell House LLC
Fun fact I’ve mentioned here before but Blair Witch and Butterfly Kisses were filmed in and around my hometown of Ellicott City, Maryland and the Bay is supposed to take place in Maryland as well even though it was filmed in North and South Carolina and also Grave Encounters is supposed to be filmed at an asylum called Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital but it was actually filmed in British Columbia. 😉
Love your channel and videos as as always and Happy Holidays to you and your family 🥰🎄🎉
Great video Sarah! Unfriended is a great movie so I'm glad you have it on this list.
I've seen almost all these movies except: Phoenix Forgotten, Incantation, Quarantine (though I've seen Rec so I don't plan to watch it), Milk & Serial (I plan to watch this one), Host, Blair Witch 2016, The Last Exorcism, and The Blair Witch Project.
I guess I'm a Found Footage girlie😂
18:25 YAY WE ARE BOTH pisces ♓️ didnt know that no wonder why i love your lists i relate so much
Thank you so much for this list. I AM OBSESSED with found footage ❤ My top 3: REC, HELL HOUSE, GONJIAM HAUNTED ASYLUM
Believe it or not, the first "screenlife" film (ala Unfriended) was "The Collingswood Story", which was made in 2002. Yeah, this genre is actually over 20 years old!
For my top 5 I’d go
1. Blair Witch Project
2. The Medium
3. Lake Mungo
4. Grave Encounters
5. The Last Exorcism
I'm so happy you watched Incantation! As a Taiwanese, many people really liked this movie locally, too. The first few seconds explaining the psychological effects scare tf out of me xD I watched it with a friend because I can't finish it alone
The Last Exorcism at the top 3 is wild! I love it too.
My top five are Noroi:The Curse, Lake Mungo, Kairo, Gonjiam Haunted Asylum and Paranormal Activity 1.
To avoid the jabberwocky
25: Phoenix Forgotten
24: Devils Pass
23: HellHouse LLC
22: The Borderlands
21: The Sacrament
20: V/H/S
19: Incantation
18: The Bay
17: Quarantine
16: Unfriended
15: Milk and Serial
14: Afflicted
13: Creep
12: Rec
11: Host
10: Paranormal Activity
9: Cloverfield
8: Butterfly Kisses
7: The Taking of Deborah Logan
6: Blair Witch (2016)
5: Grave Encounters
4: As Above So Below
3: The Last Exorcism
2: Gonjiam - Haunted Asylum
1: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
You're welcome
1. Gonjiam 2. Rec 3. The monster project(surprised this wasn’t one the list) 4.Blair witch project 5. Vhs
#5 the OUTWATERS # 4 21:56 WILLOW CREEK #3 THE LAST BROADCAST #2 CLOVERFIELD #1 THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
I’ve been watching your channel for years and tonight I’m drinking a bottle of wine and finally watching Gonjiam haunted asylum. Wish me luck ✌️
Thank you for talking about found footage so much. You have introduced me to the genre, and it is now one of my favorite sub genres! Thank you! Love Blair Witch Project, Willow Creek, Creep and Butterfly Kisses. Also I recommend "They're Watching".
i love u queen, u are so real for this - thank u for the found footage content
I finally watched Gonjiam! I commented last night on another video you mentioned it in, I love alllllll your same movies. I was in a really bad headspace, sleep deprived, crying (break up), had a headache. I was a little
Disappointed, but I was aware I wasn’t in the right place, so today I watched an ending explained version feelings better. And you were right. I didn’t get it. I knew I didn’t get it. But yeah it was definitely good
I can at least give a top three:
1) Noroi: The Curse
2) Lake Mungo
3) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
I know I loved Cloverfield when it came out, and The Poughkeepsie Tapes was terrifying (home invasion is the subgenre that scares me most), but I watched both of those like 10+ years ago so idk how they hold up. I was also freaked out by The Fourth Kind, but it's REALLY pushing it to call that one found footage lol.
Idk who hires these people to rank movies it’s mind blowing to me how unqualified the people making these lists are working for these big companies. I always refer to RUclips aka this channel for rankings. And these sites never have good recommendations either always mainstream ones I already know about. So grateful for ur channel!
No love for Deadstream is crazy. Actually its in my top 5 found footage horror movies of all time.
Here are my 5 list:
1) Noroi: The Curse
2) Incantation
3) REC (Spanish)
4) Deadstream
5) Lake Mungo
As a Taiwanese, I'm so glad everyone likes Incantation😂 An internet celebrity said she was adopted to one of these religious homes. She was found n*ked in a cage, and transferred to another home. Even tied to a table as some sort of sacrifice. The fact that these things actually happen here is terrifying to me😨
I just came across your channel. I'm loving it! I haven't seen a whole lot of found footage, but this is my top 10.
10. The Visit
9. REC
8. The Taking of Deborah Logan
7. Late Night with the Devil
6. V/H/S
5. Deadstream
4. The Outwaters
3. Host
2. The Blairwitch Project
1. Paranormal Activity
yeah I was definitely gagged lake mungo wasn't in there lmao, my top 5 would be like
1. Lake Mungo
2. Gonjiam
3. Noroi
4. As Above So Below
5. The Tunnel
Right? A criminal omission.
Is that even found footage though? Isn't it a mockumentary?
because of your rec, i watched gonjiam ... yea that was terrifying lol
1. Noroi
2. Rec
3. The blair witch Project 99
4. Hell House
5. Host
Making a ff horror list without Noroi and Gonjiam on top is staggering
I always check your reviews on movies I'm not sure whether I'd like or not, because I've find we rarely disagree on films and when we do I'm always shocked because it's so often consistent. Found Footage has become my favorite and I've found so many good ones because of you. I think I found you because of Skinamarink after I saw it in theater and was looking for people's thoughts, it's one of my top 4 favorite movies. Your recs that come to my mind that I now adore; Gonjiam Asylum (definitely one of the scariest movies I've ever seen), Host, Incantation, Rec, Deadstream, Lake Mungo, and the V/H/S movies. Anyways, super thankful for your content - you're my number one go to for horror reviews.
Making my way through the episodes of Creep Tapes rn, it's pretty good. Has that same unsettling tension that the movies did all the way through 👍🏻
I'd have included One Cut of the Dead, Lake Mungo and The Visit in there too! Love this genre. Just watched Gonjiam for the first time!
I always trust your reviews and opinions cuz we have the same top favorite found footage movies! I haven’t started the video yet but I already know it’s awesome.
A really underrated Found Footage film is Man Bites Dog, a french black comedy crime thriller horror
Top 5: 1. Blair Witch Project 2. Chronicle. 3. Noroi the Curse 4. Skew 5. Gonjiam Haunted Asylum.
While I don’t have any desire to watch Megan Is Missing again I actually think it’s such a terrifying movie. It’s not a movie I would recommend in the sense that I think it’s such a iffy topic but it’s very effective
The last 15 mins were just unnecessary in that movie. Just hard to finish.
@ the movie is quite unnecessary itself. The acting is bad and the characters do the most unrealistic stuff. The last 15 to 20 min of the movie are the only thing i consider horrifying to the point I think it’s the only scary part of the movie.
It's more of a mockumentary than found footage, even more so I'd say it's found photographs, but I highly recommend Savageland 2015 to you! I think it's on tubi and I believe I saw it on yt too 👀 It really got under my skin and has some of my favorite horror imagery of all time. I love your love of Blair witch project, it's one of my faves
Top 5:
5. The Taking of Deborah Logan- I knew it was fake(obviously they all are) cause of the one actress in this movie so I wasn’t immursed but the end of this movie…
4. Grave Encounters-this movie is a bit cheesy in the beginning but the second half of it i’d say is still memorable
3. Hell House LLC- what freaks me out about this movie is that I don’t live too far from the real location of this place and it is supposedly haunted in real life.
2. VHS- classic. The first 2 I liked but I saw one of the newer ones and I thought the beginning was stupid so I turned it off(I don’t remember which one it was but it was newer)
1. Gonjiam: Haunted Aslyum- my husband and I watched it and both of us got so freaked out for a few days after watching it.
**this was hard but honorable mentions go to As Above So Below and The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Hot take but I am not a big fan of The Blair Witch Project, however, I liked Blair Witch(2016) a lot more 😂
I'm going to go with something a little different: My top five movies that weren't on your list.
1. Exhibit A: A devoted family man living in a pretty nice house is anticipating a big promotion and the purchase of a much nicer house. The family is anticipating moving from middle class to upper middle class. When the promotion doesn't come through as expected he slowly goes off the rails. I have a belief that good genre stories area always about something else in addition to what they're about on the surface. This is a movie about how some men define their entire identity around being a "good provider" and what happens when they believe that identity is threatened.
2. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne: A young eastern European man is convinced he needs to become a filmmaker. In an attempt to attract Anne Hathaway to star in his movie, he hires unknown local actresses to star in his audition film, which turns out to be, well, exactly what it appears to be.
3. Several episodes of Inside Number 9, most notably Cold Comfort and Mulberry Close. Cold Comfort takes place almost entirely on the computer screen of a counselor at a suicide prevention hotline. Mulberry Close consists entirely of footage from a motion-sensing security cam mounted on the front of the house of a couple that just moved into a neighborhood full of quirky characters. They're both 25 minute episodes of a TV show, so explaining anything else would risk spoilers.
4. Contracted: Warning: The inciting incident involves necrophilia and SA. Following a painful breakup with her girlfriend, a young woman is SA'd at a party and finds herself infected with a mysterious illness. It's a slow burn from there as she tries to come to terms with and figure out what's happening to her. This is a movie where one of the most effective scenes of horror involves someone making a salad.
5. Trollhunter: A reporter investigating reports of mysterious bear deaths discovers that the thing responsible is trolls. The neat thing about Trollhunter is that is bucks conventions by telling you pretty early on what's going on -- trolls are wandering the woods and the locals are trying to find and kill them -- and then it shows you the monsters early on and very clearly. The title tells you exactly what you're getting -- a group of hunters whose intended prey is trolls. Trolls the size of a two-story house.
Honorable mention: Without Warning: It isn't technically found footage, but it's in line with movies where the entire story takes place on a screen in that it's presented as a faux Special Bulletin being broadcast live. Three meteors all hit the earth at the same time, evenly spaced around the Earth at the same latitude. We follow news coverage as things ramp up from there. And that ending, it's a doozy. This is available in full on RUclips, at least a couple of different uploads.
Contracted is not a found footage movie
Gonjam was one of the few movies to haunt me with that face the one girl makes, combined with the whispering noises
OMG BUTTERFLY KISSES!! I feel pretty desensitized by horror sometimes and I still think about this movie. The imagery is insane. I recommend it to everyone. I’m glad to see it getting love here because it’s not that well known!
1.REC 2.Incantation 3.VHS 2 4. Hell House 5. Unfriended 👻
Sarah, I just shared that, yes, I watched Gonjiam last week for the first time because of your recommendation 😂 It was enjoyable! Thanks!
I was so pleasantly surprised to see Incantation on here! Plus even more pleasantly surprised about As Above So Below's placement. It is probably my most rewatched comfort horror movie as well, always great to just throw on! Seriously great list though! I don't think there's anything I even disagree with haha😆
(Side note, I saw on letterboxd that you watched Paprika recently and rated it 5 stars and I'm literally over the moon that you enjoyed it since it is one of my all time favorite movies!! I'm so glad it ended up suiting your taste!)💚💚
I remember when you came out with that video 4 years ago. It was one of the first videos I watched of yours! This is super random but I’ve loved watching your hair journey throughout the years and think this color is PERFECT on you !
1.Blair Witch Project (the GOAT)
2.Gonjiam Haunted Asylum (The new age GOAT)
3.BBC's GhostWatch("live" found footage, incredibly well done)
4.Occult(zaniest found footage horror that's supernatural mystery)
5.Savageland(best mockumentary, feels like a real documentary, amazing dread building)
6.Cloverfield(GOAT nostalgia pick/the first horror movie I ever watched)
If I allowed in series the Senritsu Kaiki Files would probably be number 2 for just being amazing tied in horror series of movies
1. Paranormal Activities Series
2. Hell House LLC Series
3. The Levenger Tapes
4. As above do below
5. Cloverfield
I just found your channel and immediately subscribed so idk if you've already done this or not, but have you ever thought about making a video compiling movies you think a new horror fan should watch, or what every horror fanatic should watch at least once? Great video btw
I cant believe you’d pick paranormal activity over Hell House LLC. 😮 paranormal activity is ok (2nd one i like the most) but Hell House’s clown just makes me wanna look at my phone when those scenes come up.
if you’re not going to include gems like horror in the high desert & lake mungo in this ranking, i would recommend perhaps making a mocumentary tier list. horror in the high desert is phenomenal & deserves to be seen by more people. same with the blackwell ghost series.
Top 5 ranked found footage for me would be.
1. The Medium
2. The Bay
3. Gonjiam Haunted Asylum
4. Noroi The Curse
5. The Taking of Deborah Logan
I disagree with you most of the time when it comes to your ranking and reviews, but still love your channel and listening to your opinion regardless 😂
i know it’s so obvious Blair Witch (1999) would be number 1 but man that movie is AMAZING
me personally i love how slow and quiet everything is, the way the forest kinda becomes the antagonist to these people trapped in it’s ever expanding space
and the house- dear the house is probably the scariest place I could think a horror movie would take place
the marketing too, its just a genius film and rightfully so in number 1
I've seen all but 2 (Afflicted and Incantation), seriously you should check out Horror in The High Desert movies. Shockingly good.
Gonjiam haunted asylum is by far one of if not my favorite horror movies! So happy to see the love for an all time classic 🥰
i adore found footage movies and you actually listed a few i haven't seen because they are not available here in finland! In my top 10 are these movies: as above so below, the grave encounters ( 1-2), exists, the taking of deborah logan, host, rec, quarantine, the visit, paranormal activity & unfriended. If you count sinister is a found footage then that too.
EDIT: I just finished the last exorcism and oh my gosh I LOVED it! Just ordered part 2 Blu-ray 😂
I love all the movies on this list except one. I'm amazed at some you didn't list, Spree, Evil Things, Europa Report, Followed, I have a LONG list lol anyway it's a great list but the one I don't love is Gonjiam Haunted Asylum and the reason I don't love it is I haven't watched it yet. I got a gorgeous looking black slipcase bluray set today with some kind of booklet in it and I'm really looking forward to watching it. So weird, I watch so many FF movies and still haven't seen this. Anyway another great video, thanks and good luck.
And agreed the first Blair Witch Project is one of the best movies ever made period. That’s number 1. Number 2 is Gonjiam, number 3 is the VHS series, number 4 is as above so below and number 5 is Hell House LLC.
honestly you are the only person i trust when it comes to found footage, thank you for making this vid lol :)
The way my face dropped when you said Lake Mungo wasn’t on here 😂 so funny
Would loooooove to see this with other horror subgenres like slasher, teen horror, body horror, haunted house, possession, etc.
I was just watching your past Found Footage rankings and thinking "I really hope she does a new one soon" !