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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 Devil Within (2016)
Plot Summary:
In November 2012 Rachel Kusza and her team of film makers travelled to Transylvania to document the Baciu forest. A forest with a dark history of strange occurrences, ghost sightings and countless cases of missing people. The film crew were never heard from again. After searching for the film crew for two years Howard Redman, Rachels teacher, found the crews camera buried in the snow.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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True Fiction (2019)
Plot Summary:
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological, tense, bleak, dark
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Case No. 666/2013 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three buddies Bhaskar, Chaitanya and Durga along with a stranger, venture into a forest and stay in a haunted guest house. They carry two cameras through which they start recording interesting and mysterious happenings. As the mystery unfolds, the friends go missing one after the other. After six months of their disappearance, police investigate the case and recover three memory cards from their cameras which reveal a shocking truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, asian horror
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The Witch Files (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coven of young women with incredible powers and difficult pasts discovers that they are able to make their every wish come true. Things, however, take a dangerous turn when they discover that their newly-found abilities come with a price and that they may not be as in control as they think.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Horror in the High Desert (2021)
Plot Summary:
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, slasher, mockumentary
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Malibu Horror Story (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 2012, four Malibu teenagers disappeared without a trace. This documentary narrative takes a look inside one of the most bizarre and disturbing unsolved missing persons cases in Southern California.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, teen horror
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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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Raakavedos (2016)
Plot Summary:
A film maker travels to explore an abandoned secluded youth home "Pohjola Manor" located in Northern Finland surrounded by ghost stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, independent film, mockumentary
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Severed Footage (2012)
Plot Summary:
Twelve severed feet in running shoes found on the shores of Western Canada have baffled Police. A videotape is leaked anonymously from the authorities. This paranormal thriller may solve the mystery of the severed feet.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark, scary, disturbing
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Paranormal Prison (2021)
Plot Summary:
A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Blazing World (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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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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Hollow (2011)
Plot Summary:
An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realize that belief in a myth can quickly materialize into reality, bringing horror to life for the town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, mockumentary, spooky, psychological, serious
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Occult (2009)
Plot Summary:
Koji Shiraishi is interested in strange indiscriminate murder at a sightseeing resort. He goes behind the camera to investigate the circumstances surrounding strange occurrences and interview the survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspense, scary, psychological, tense, captivating, slasher, surreal, tension, creepy
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Crowsnest (2012)
Plot Summary:
In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary, independent film, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, grindhouse
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V/H/S/2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, anthology, suspense, tense, rough, bloody, splatter, mumblecore
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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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Atrocious (2010)
Plot Summary:
Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. They used to record whatever they did. Atrocious shows the last five days of this family, and the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, psychological, splatter, creepy, spooky, surprise ending
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A Night in the Woods (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and their friend Leo go hiking in Dartmoor's Wistman's Woods, so named because of its legendary haunted past. That night jealousies, sexual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should have been a peaceful camping adventure into a trip to terror. As collective paranoia reaches fever pitch it becomes clear that there is a much darker force at work in the ancient eerie surroundings. Who or what is after them? And can any one of them survive a night in the woods?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 981
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, road movie, dark, fake documentary
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Entity (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense, slasher, splatter, mockumentary, grindhouse, spooky
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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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The Gallows (2015)
Plot Summary:
20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, dark, intense, suspenseful, spooky, surprise ending, psychological, mockumentary
Similar in 79%
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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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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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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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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Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
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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Evil Things (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by breathtaking mountains and miles and miles of woods. Miriam invites her young college friends Cassy, Mark, Tanya and Leo to join her at the country house for what looks to be the most amazing weekend ever. Of course they all jump at the chance to spend a free weekend in the country, in the middle of nowhere. Miriam's friends are totally in the mood for a big time party weekend. They're also anxious to escape the dark and gloomy concrete jungle known as Manhattan. Miriam, Cassy and Tanya bring the food. Mark brings the beer and Leo, the aspiring filmmaker, brings his new video camera. Leo hopes to produce a short movie by documenting every amazing moment of this weekend getaway.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, mockumentary, suspense, dark, realistic, independent film
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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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8213: Gacy House (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, rough, serious, scary, suspenseful, dark, tense, exciting, psychological, slasher