Movies like Devil's Backbone, Texas
If Devil's Backbone, Texas's mix of mockumentary and found footage stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Devil's Backbone, Texas's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
2023 · Directed by Stephen Cognetti · 98 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: mockumentary, found footage
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.
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What We Do in the Shadows
2014 · Directed by Taika Waititi · 86 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: mockumentary, found footage · From the same decade (2010s)
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
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Backrooms
2026 · Directed by Kane Parsons · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: found footage
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
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Sinister
2012 · Directed by Scott Derrickson · 110 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · From the same decade (2010s)
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit.
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The Taking of Deborah Logan
2014 · Directed by Adam Robitel · 90 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · From the same decade (2010s)
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,…
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes
2007 · Directed by John Erick Dowdle · 81 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: found footage
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence…
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Hell House LLC
2015 · Directed by Stephen Cognetti · 91 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · From the same decade (2010s)
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…
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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · Directed by Daniel Myrick · 81 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: found footage
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
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Grave Encounters
2011 · Directed by Stuart Ortiz · 93 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · From the same decade (2010s)
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
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Phoenix Forgotten
2017 · Directed by Justin Barber · 87 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: found footage · From the same decade (2010s)
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful…