Found Footage – VHS effect

📼 VHS Effect

Press record. Your world is now found footage.

Remember those old home videos? The warm, slightly blurry picture, the colors bleeding at the edges, the shaky hands holding the camera, that blinking red REC in the corner…

VHS Effect turns Minecraft into exactly that. Every cave you explore, every night you survive, every build you show off now looks like it was filmed on a 90s camcorder and played back on a worn-out tape.

Perfect for horror maps, found-footage adventures, cinematic videos, nostalgic screenshots, or simply giving your survival world a whole new soul.

📺 A real old-school TV screen

Curved CRT picture with rounded corners, like an old television set.
Color bleeding, soft tape blur and washed-out colors.
Scanlines, moving grain and subtle line wobble.

🎥 It feels like someone is holding the camera

Smoothed, weighty mouse movement, like a real camera instead of a perfect robot eye. 
A constant handheld sway that makes every scene feel alive. 
The camera reacts to your body: every step, sprint, strafe, jump and landing moves it naturally.

🔍 Real camera zoom

Hold C (rebindable) and the lens zooms in smoothly up to 3x, with a real zoom motor sound and a camcorder W–T zoom bar. Let go, and it slowly pulls back out. Aiming slows down while zoomed for precise shots.

⚙️ Make it yours

Every single effect can be tuned or turned off from the in-game config screen (Mods → VHS Effect → Config), and changes apply instantly. Want only the zoom and the REC overlay? A heavy, distorted tape from hell? A subtle cinematic touch? It’s all up to you.

✅ Good to know

Client-side only: works on any server, no server install needed. 
Lightweight: no dependency other than NeoForge on 1.21.1, Cloth Config is optional for the 1.20.1 version (to easily configure tour effect). 
Pairs perfectly with horror mods and adventure maps !

You can of course add this mod to your modpacks ! You just need to credit me and provide a link to this page.

Stay in the frame. Keep the tape rolling. 📼