One very intriguing and mysterious piece of found footage relating to such an unspeakable crime was recovered from a cell phone found by a student within a taxi cab in Fiji. The footage that never made it into the final cut of "The Misfits" has been locked in a cabinet since 1999. THE LOST FOOTAGE OF LEAH SULLIVAN is the found footage film you’ve been waiting for with the perfect balance of humor, cliche, and real visceral horror, With 22 million views, this is certifiably a viral lost-and-found story. During an interview at ComicCon 2012, Anderson revealed that producer Lloyd Levin had found the original cut of the film on a VHS. The Cannibal in the Jungle is a found footage horror film that, although it abandons full found footage purity, makes up for it with a compelling, immersive plot and above-average performances. For 8 months, the camera sat with the pigs in mud, until the farm’s owner found the camera and uploaded the footage to YouTube. Found footage is defined as a piece of video that has been lost and later found by someone else. However, nothing has been heard of it … The "found-footage" format ingrained itself as a staple of horror movies during the 2000s, but a glut of such films has flooded the marketplace with inferior examples of the immersive style.

To help you sort through the mounds of mediocrity, here is a rundown of the best found-footage fright flicks, in descending order.

By Carla Baranauckas When actress Marilyn Monroe was filming “The Misfits” with Clark Gable , she shot a nude scene that never made it into the 1961 movie. The idea of found footage horror rose to popularity with the 1999 film On the mysterious abandoned phone was found to be a 10 minute long video that would set the Internet and media on fire and incite endless debate. This may happen because the creator lost their camera, died during the recording of the video, or was a bad person whose incriminating footage was discovered by law enforcement.