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Plot Summary:
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: detective, mysterious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, scary, weird, fake documentary, no music, cinema verite
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Among Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
B-movie director Billy D'Amato has made a career out of horror movies...but when he meets a real "monster in the woods" on a shoot, he is forced to re-evaluate, and fight for, his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, fake documentary
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The Tapes (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fame-hungry Gemma asks her boyfriend Danny and his media student mate Nathan to film her Big Brother audition. They hear about a sex party and change course, but soon wish they hadn't as the party goers turn out to be devil worshippers.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, disturbing, psychotronic, mockumentary, cult film
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Doppel (2020)
Plot Summary:
An innocent video becomes documentation of a tragedy as Kevin and Vickie approach the anniversary of their son’s suicide and discover a horrifying truth – Kevin’s grief has invited something evil into their home.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockumentary
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Abominable (2020)
Plot Summary:
A research team embarks on a journey to obtain a plant that can advance medical research by centuries. While stumbling upon clues of the previous expedition, they discover that a Yeti creature lurks within the Himalayan mountains and will do anything to protect its terrain.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Chupacabra Territory (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four friends hike into the Pinewood forest to find evidence of the Chupacabra, a creature believed to be responsible for the disappearance of a group of experienced hikers a year earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Found Footage (2011)
Plot Summary:
Live footage found by police of a serial killer who documented, first hand, his undertakings.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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In Memorium (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man dying of cancer installs a series of cameras in his home to try to capture a paranormal entity that has been causing issues in the home before he dies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspense, spooky
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Monsters in the Woods (2012)
Plot Summary:
A micro-budget movie crew treks into the wilderness to shoot horror scenes for their unsellable indie-drama. They soon find themselves in the midst of their own real horror movie, as they are hunted by a large group of creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, splatter, meta, weird
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The House with 100 Eyes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ed and Susan might seem to be a normal, suburban American couple, but they’ve got a horrifying secret: They create and sell snuff films in their inescapable deathtrap of a home. When Ed decides to create the world’s first ‘triple feature’ – three victims, all killed in one night – the cameras hidden throughout the house capture the evening’s terrible events. As their victims suffer their gruesome fates, Ed and Susan’s relationship begins to unravel, causing their carefully laid plans to spiral into bloody chaos that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, rough, sadistic, controversial, dark comedy
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The Last Broadcast (1998)
Plot Summary:
Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect in the disappearances of the other two. However, a local filmmaker examines extensive footage found at the scene and arrives at a different conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, detective, spooky, scary, slasher
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The Entity (2015)
Plot Summary:
THE RING goes ‘found footage’ Peruvian in a terrific example of the continually igniting South American new horror wave. A group of media students embark on a documentary project covering ‘Reaction Videos’ - filming people watching intense shock footage online to monitor their psychological effect. And they find one example so terrifying the viewers have all died in mysterious circumstances. But what exactly is on this gruesome Internet footage? Their search leads to an obscure corner of cyberspace known as the Dark Web, a Quechua curse dating from the Spanish Inquisition and a demonic power they cannot escape from.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, crying, independent film, mockumentary
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The Black Door (2001)
Plot Summary:
Seattle, USA, 1999. At the demand of MEG, a camera crew investigates the strange course of events that brought STEVEN H., her boyfriend, to be hospitalized. Steven's condition is serious. His body has been severely lacerated by an unknown assailant. The doctors think it could be a wild animal, or maybe even a man with extremely long and hard nails. Steven is also suffering from a mysterious infection that spreads inside him at an alarming speed.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark, mockumentary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, weird, fake documentary
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Clawed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after the incidents in Black Claw Mountain, a group of students are prey to a monster part human, part bear and part liquid.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surprise ending, scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Devil's Trail (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two reality TV stars are experts at survival, but when they decide to embark upon the legendary home of the Jersey Devil can they survive? Reality TV just got real.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary, wild
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Sx_Tape (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the director of CANDYMAN and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes a found-footage nightmare of lust, possession, and destruction. Jill's an artist. Ian's a filmmaker. And their love life is off the chain. There's no experience too wild, no dare too dangerous—not even when Jill lets Ian strap her to a gurney in the abandoned hospital they're scoping out for their next art show. But he shouldn't have left her alone. Not even as a joke. Now, Jill's hookup with horror has awakened something in that place. Something with a lust for more than flesh.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, realistic, bleak, mockumentary, crying, serious, fake documentary
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B.C. Butcher (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a tribe of cavewomen imparts cruel justice on one of their own their fate takes a turn for the worst. After discovering and falling in love with the corpse sacrificed by the girl-gang, a lone wandering giant of pre-historic mythos is inspired to homicide. Consequently the cavewomen are menaced by the heartbroken and bloodthirsty cave-brute with a grudge, and the prophetess among them is ignored when she predicts the tragic outcome.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, splatter, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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C.H.U.D. (1984)
Plot Summary:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful, cult classic, cult horror, retro, detective
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Chasing the Devil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick McCord doesn't accept the explanation of his sister's mysterious death as suicide, and instead teams up with a team of paranormal investigators to delve deeper into the inexplicable circumstances that surround what he believes to be murder. The team's investigation leads them from one bizarre and frightening clue to another, at the center of which seems to exist something evil and terrifying, a presence well beyond their wildest imaginations and experiences. Before long, they realize this deadly entity has now targeted each of them, and they are confronted with the impossible challenge of defeating it and saving their own lives. In the end, what survives, and is presented here, is the disturbing footage that Patrick and his team shot, footage that if seen by others, likely endangers the viewer, marking them as the next victim of this powerful and evil force. Be careful what you chase - you just might end up catching it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, mockumentary, tense, psychological, suspense, demonic, scary, rough
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Apocalyptic (2014)
Plot Summary:
A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful
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The Bake Street Hauntings (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young couple accept an offer for $2 million to stay in a haunted house for a week. Based on real footage and events.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, black and white, psychotronic
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Classroom 6 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A local reporter and her assembled TV crew go into a school haunted by a horrific past. The team spends the night locked inside the building, capturing any and everything they find.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, independent film, mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Burningmoore Incident (2010)
Plot Summary:
The cameras filming a TV pilot capture the brutal killings of a home renovation crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark, psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, mockumentary
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Unaired (2010)
Plot Summary:
S.P.I is entering its third season as the most watched Paranormal Hunting program with its Halloween premiere. The team is investigating a haunted garage/basement on secluded property and prepping to create some soaring ratings with scary content. Upon investigation however, they see that what they all fabricate, may in fact be very real.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film
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The Amityville Haunting (2011)
Plot Summary:
This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever lives there. This is the footage retrieved from the camera.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, dark, mockbuster, mockumentary, psychotronic, independent film, 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 Paranormal Diaries: Clophill (2013)
Plot Summary:
In March 1963, a black mass was held at a ruined church in Clophill, Bedfordshire by a coven of dark witches. Tombs were looted, animals sacrificed and human bones arranged during a macabre ceremony. Further defilements continued at Clophill in the following years, with cattle in nearby fields found mutilated, evidence of necromancy discovered and perpetual sightings of paranormal activity witnessed at the isolated ruin. 50 years on from the original incident, the Clophill legend remains etched on the psyches of the local populace. In 2010, a documentary team was assembled to investigate the legend of the Clophill witches and to try and uncover the truth behind the paranormal events. What followed during that long weekend at Clophill was a terrifying journey into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in this fear-filled found-footage foray featuring a bright young cast.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark, scary, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, fake documentary
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The Tunnel (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, rough, suspenseful, spooky, suspense, splatter, mockumentary, slasher, psychological
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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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Evidence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, mockumentary, slasher, spooky, crying, independent film, weird