Found-Footage Horror Fans, Your Next Hidden Gem Is Butterfly Kisses

Meet Peeping Tom, the horror villain who makes blinking feel like a very bad idea.

AUGUST 24, 2026

You know a horror movie has officially reached hidden-gem status when the people who discover it immediately start asking, “Why is nobody talking about this?” That’s basically the Butterfly Kisses experience. The 2018 found-footage horror movie has quietly built a fanbase among genre obsessives, with viewers continuing to recommend it as one of those underrated horror movies best discovered with as little information as possible.

Here’s what we will tell you: Butterfly Kisses begins with filmmaker Gavin York discovering tapes made by two missing film students investigating a local urban legend known as Peeping Tom. The legend says that once you summon him, every time you blink, he gets closer. Already hate that! But the movie gets even sneakier, layering documentary footage inside found footage while Gavin becomes increasingly obsessed with convincing everyone that what he found is real.

The less you know from there, the better. Just keep an eye on the background and maybe reconsider blinking for the next 91 minutes. And if Butterfly Kisses sends you down the found-footage rabbit hole, you'll find it alongside plenty more horror movies and found-footage frights in the Terror on Tubi hub.

The Cast

Seth Adam Kallick

Kallick has the tricky job of making Gavin feel like a filmmaker you’re never completely sure you should trust. His desperation to prove the tapes are real keeps getting more intense, and Kallick lets that obsession slowly take over the performance until Gavin starts feeling less like the guy investigating the horror and more like another piece of the movie’s unsettling found-footage mystery.

Rachel Armiger

Armiger plays Sophia, one of the film students whose investigation of Peeping Tom lives inside the tapes Gavin discovers. She brings an increasingly uneasy energy to the footage as an academic project starts feeling considerably less academic, helping sell the movie’s best trick: making something that obviously looks like a horror movie occasionally feel uncomfortably like footage somebody genuinely found.

Reed DeLisle

DeLisle’s Feldman joins Sophia in investigating the Peeping Tom legend, giving the movie another performance that has to live inside its deliberately rough, student-documentary style. DeLisle helps make their footage feel casual enough that the scares can sneak up on you.