20 Best Found Footage Horror Movies Ever
9. Creep
Mark Duplass is a prominent figure in the low-fi "mumblecore" filmmaking movement, so it was undeniably neat to see him take the leap into horror with Creep.
Teaming with co-writer, co-star, and director Patrick Brice, Duplass plays Josef, an apparently terminally ill man who hires a videographer, Aaron (Brice), to record a video diary for his unborn son, only to display increasingly bizarre and off-putting behaviour.
The genius of Creep is that, for the bulk of its runtime, the audience is left unsure of precisely how far Josef's creepiness is going to go. Duplass masterfully mines every possible ounce of dread and discomfort from Josef's unsettling actions, even as we might scream at Aaron for ignoring one big red flag after another.
Creep's body count may be lower than your average found footage film, but the squirm-inducing awkwardness of the central scenario makes it a mesmerising exercise in stomach-knotting tension, and its success led to an almost equally-good 2017 sequel and a more uneven TV series follow-up.