The Poughkeepsie Tapes
Why this pick
Like Home Movie, it uses an ostensibly recovered-recording format to make domestic footage feel increasingly invasive, with dread built through implication and a disturbingly matter-of-fact texture.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like Home Movie, it uses an ostensibly recovered-recording format to make domestic footage feel increasingly invasive, with dread built through implication and a disturbingly matter-of-fact texture.
Why this pick
Its faux-documentary approach turns family archives and interviews into a restrained, grief-soaked supernatural investigation, matching Home Movie’s intimate unease and patient accumulation of unsettling details.
Why this pick
A skeptical documentary crew entering a troubled rural household creates the same close-quarters, escalating found-footage tension, balancing naturalistic family dysfunction with frightening uncertainty.
Why this pick
This documentary-style horror finds terror in caregiving and a family home, using believable interview footage and gradual behavioral wrongness in a way that echoes Home Movie’s domestic dread.
Why this pick
A deeply uncomfortable home-video drama-thriller about a household’s collapse, it shares Home Movie’s observational realism, confined family perspective, and fear rooted in ordinary domestic spaces.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Clare
Emily Poe
Jack Poe
David Poe