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Plot Summary:
20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, dark, scary, suspenseful, exciting, mockumentary, mumblecore, spooky, light
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Skew (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Simon, Rich, and Eva head out on an eagerly anticipated road trip, they bring along a video camera to record their journey. What starts out as a carefree adventure slowly becomes a descent into the ominous as unexplained events threaten to disrupt the balance between the three close friends. Each one of them must struggle with personal demons and paranoia as friendships are tested and gruesome realities are revealed...and recorded.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, road movie, mockumentary, tense, disturbing, psychological, spooky
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The Gracefield Incident (2017)
Plot Summary:
On August 16, 2013, the Supreme Court mandated the CIA to declassify files that had been kept secret for the past 75 years. Visual records of documented paranormal events were released to the public. The following incident took place in Gracefield, Quebec.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, spooky, mockumentary, psychotronic, visual, twisted
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Found Footage (2012)
Plot Summary:
The contents of a memory card are presented in the exact order in which they were found. Beginning with a simple camping trip and ending in a bloodbath years later, the mystery of these video clips have never been solved.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, bleak, scary, surprise ending, independent film
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Noctem (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adrian and Esteban have been missing for a year. The police are at a standstill, despite having found their personal belongings in Cozumel, an island 12 miles away from the Riviera Maya. Alex friend of both, manages to get their cell phones, with which he will start his own parallel research. And he will discover that the truth is much more terrifying than you could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, mockumentary, crying, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Amber Alert (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mockumentary, disturbing, independent film, tension, suspense, interesting
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Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, suspense, spooky, independent film, dark, supernatural thriller
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Night Skies (2007)
Plot Summary:
On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, depressing, suspense
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
Plot Summary:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, atmospheric, creepy, psychological, intense, serious
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, christmas horror, weird, fake documentary
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Extraterrestrial (2014)
Plot Summary:
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending, teen horror, psychological, futuristic, slasher
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Dark Skies (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological, twist ending, tense, creepy, tricky, disturbing, intense
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The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Plot Summary:
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Area 51 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, talky, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Plot Summary:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, light, road movie, psychotronic
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The Collingswood Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
My name is Rebecca. When I left for college my ex John thought web cams would help us keep in touch. It does however it also leads us to a dark secret when we meet and cam with Vera Madeline, an on-line psychic, who initiates a deadly reign of terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, dark, enigmatic, suspenseful, scary, mockumentary, psychotronic, independent film
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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Alien Valley (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of a reality T.V. crew of paranormal researchers who journey to Colorado's San Luis Valley in order to investigate the unexplained phenomena of cattle mutilations. Over the course of their three day investigation they find much more than they ever could have bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, dark, tense, captivating, suspenseful, mockumentary, exciting, fake documentary
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The Recall (2017)
Plot Summary:
When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense, psychedelic, apocalyptic, disgusting, light, surprise ending
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Slender Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, bad ending, suspense, psychological, psychotronic, dark, slasher, demonic, spooky, thrilling
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, atmospheric, surprise ending, suspenseful, splatter, creepy, slasher, spooky, rough
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Hell House LLC (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark, spooky, scary, slasher, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense, teen horror, mockumentary, suspenseful
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Apollo 18 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, mockumentary, scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, space horror, atmospheric, spooky
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The Den (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber, mockumentary, creepy, rough, psychological
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Nope (2022)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 252000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, splatter, tense, captivating, exciting, clever
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Fire in the Sky (1993)
Plot Summary:
A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, suspense, retro, psychedelic, slasher, surreal
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Blair Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, dark, suspense, tense, stylized, intense, demonic, spooky, slasher
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Cloverfield (2008)
Plot Summary:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 416000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft, apocalyptic, rough, bleak, clever
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, rough, slasher, scary, psychological, controversial, creepy, suspense, stylized
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As Above, So Below (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, philosophical, atmospheric, creepy, serious