Best movies like Off the Beaten Path
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Plot Summary:
Four thrill seekers making a short film about an abandoned backwoods property in Gateway, Minnesota unleash an evil legend that should have been left forgotten.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: suspense, mockumentary, independent film
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Found Footage 3D (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie, but find themselves IN the first 3D found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, scary, serious, suspense, disturbing, controversial, meta, horror comedy, post modern
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Dashcam (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the start of the pandemic, an indulgent and self-deluded livestreaming improv musician abandons L.A. for London, steals her ex-bandmate's car, and makes the fateful decision to give a ride to an elderly woman who is not what she seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, semi documentary, slasher, splatter, mockumentary
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D@bbe: Demon Possession (2012)
Plot Summary:
Turkish director Hasan Karacadag is something of an unusual case. In a nation that appears uncertain how to feel about its own history with exploitation film and generally reluctant to embrace genre film - though there are obvious exceptions - Karacadag has jumped headlong into the horror pool. The director first came to attention with the J-horror influenced D@BB, a surprise hit in Turkey that allowed Karacadag to move on to the more visually ambitious - and effects heavy - effort, Semum. Both film showcased Karacadag's growing ability to shock and terrify his audiences by taking the rich folklore of his country and pushing it to its dark extremes. And he's at it again with D@BB: Bir Cin Vakasi. The sequel to his original hit, this latest efforts puts away the Japanese influence in favor of a more Paranormal vibe, but the underlying mythology remains purely regional with the story following a Turkish family whose home is possessed by angry jinns.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, dark, suspenseful, scary, brutal, disturbing, demonic
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The Dark Area (2000)
Plot Summary:
Five friends get lost in the woods. Soon one by one gets killed by a mysterious person.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, slasher, independent film
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They're Inside (2019)
Plot Summary:
When two sisters go to an isolated cabin in the woods to film a passion project, family secrets start to get in the way, as do masked strangers filming a passion project of their own.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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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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Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes (2011)
Plot Summary:
Documentary covering the famous 'demonic possession' case of Anneliese Michel. The film features authentic footage of 'exorcisms' and other shocking events, considered to be the inspiration of the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, disturbing, mockbuster, religious horror
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Suicide Girls Must Die! (2010)
Plot Summary:
When twelve nude models for the infamous SuicideGirls.com begin disappearing from a remote cabin, the calendar video they are shooting becomes the first reality horror movie.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi serious, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, scary, exciting, sexy, humorous
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Infrared (2022)
Plot Summary:
Family tensions between a brother and sister with psychic powers threaten to tear apart the filming of an episode of a paranormal reality TV show. But simmering emotions may be the least of the crew's problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mockumentary
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General Cemetery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in Iquitos, the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-years-ago teenage girl, who suffers the death of his father. With the help of his friends from school, encourage her to contact him using the ouija. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mystical, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Last Radio Call (2022)
Plot Summary:
On June 30th, 2018, Officer David Serling went missing inside an undisclosed abandoned hospital. Using his recovered body cam footage, his wife attempts to piece together what happened to him on that horrible night.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary
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The Fear Footage: 3AM (2021)
Plot Summary:
Dennis Rosen disappeared on September 19th, 2020, while filming an episode for his urban exploration channel 'Dennis the explorer'. He was exploring Darkbluff, Maryland, a town that authorities discovered abandoned during their search for Dennis. They also discovered a camera. This footage was on that camera.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Fear Footage (2018)
Plot Summary:
On April 19th, 2016, Deputy Leo Cole vanished. The next morning, his body camera was found.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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1st Summoning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four student filmmakers set out to explore an abandoned building famous for its connection with the occult, but as their journey becomes littered with strange behavior and unexplained phenomena, it becomes clear the horror they are attempting to document may already be lurking among them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, enigmatic
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The Houses October Built 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from the trauma of being kidnapped last Halloween by the Blue Skeleton - a group who take "extreme haunt" to another level - five friends decide they must face their fears in order to move on. Heading back out on the road to visit more haunted house attractions, signs of the Blue Skeleton start appearing again and a new terror begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, mockumentary
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666: The Devil's Child (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vanessa, a documentary filmmaker, and she is making a film about folklore. Her best friend Brad was meant to help her, but he instead decides to go on a date with new love Jessica, who he met online. His new girlfriend persuades Vanessa to join him by telling her the house is haunted and would be a good subject for her film, but it turns out she has been lured into a trap and she is a creature from Hell. Quite how she will be impregnated by a female demon will be revealed in the movie.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, dark
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The Blackwell Ghost 4 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Turner returns to the light foot house to continue his investigation. This time he researched into the first victim Susan. He finds out from the detective there was a note left when light foot committed suicide. It ended up being a map to the first victim (Susan) body. The map is encrypted and turner has to find a way to decode it. While crazy things happen at the light foot house.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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The Blackwell Ghost (2017)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker tries to prove that ghosts are real but soon regrets his intentions after he finds himself being terrorized in a haunted house by a ghost with a dark past. An authentic documentary that shows actual ghost footage that was captured on camera.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: disturbing, mockumentary, bleak, scary, suspense, suspenseful, creepy, spooky, twisted, weird
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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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8ight After (2020)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, demonic
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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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Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of student film makers are creating "Project Marble Hornets" when the production is interrupted by a series of paranormal events in this tense and shocking horror.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mystical, tense, mockumentary, weird
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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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The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, demonic, mockumentary, psychological thriller, slasher, controversial, biblical
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#Screamers (2016)
Plot Summary:
When an internet company decides to investigate a series of 'Screamer' videos, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, mockumentary
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Entity Project (2019)
Plot Summary:
A director and her friends renting a haunted house to capture paranormal events in order to prove it and become popular.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Butterfly Kisses (2018)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mystical, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, mysterious, slasher, disturbing, psychotronic, weird
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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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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