20 Best Found Footage Horror Movies Ever

20. Cloverfield

Though found footage films are typically known for their low budgets, we're kicking this list off with the genre's one bona fide blockbuster project, which cost a whopping $30 million.

The J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield is one of the most ingeniously marketed movies of the 21st century, introduced to audiences amid a cloak of secrecy, where many suspected it to be a secret Godzilla or Voltron film. But ultimately, Cloverfield was an original monster movie shot in the found footage style, and one which used the format to convey the utter chaos of an alien invasion unfolding in one of the world's most populous locales, New York City.

Clocking in at a pacy 85 minutes and lithely vaulting from one thrilling set-piece to the next, Cloverfield offers an incredible amount of bang for its found footage buck, and though it makes you wait a sweet time to get a good look at its central creature, when you finally do, it's definitely worth it.

Given the film's critical and commercial success, it's frankly shocking that a direct sequel in the found footage style still hasn't materialised almost 20 years later.