20 Best Found Footage Horror Films

3. [REC] (2007)

If you’ve seen Quarantine but you haven’t seen this, I advise you to do so immediately. Quarantine is a very shoddy remake that doesn’t even come close to hitting the highs of this Spanish found footage gem. [REC] follows an ambitious reporter and her cameraman who are working the night shift at the local fire station. When they respond to a call by a distraught elderly woman, they rush to the apartment building and into what is to become the most horrifying night of their lives.

Though the zombie-esque themes of the film are nothing new, the execution of

[REC]

results in one of the scariest found footage films on this list. The filmmakers withheld many of the key scares, creating reactions that were imbued with a real terror that translates wonderfully on camera. The sound, done by aural genius Oriol Tarragó, creates an atmosphere that is truly heart-stopping, and though the effects are minimal, the blood splatter is realistic and not at all gratuitous. Two thumbs up for this one.

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