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Plot Summary:
A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark, suspense, scary, anthology, suspenseful, psychological, mockumentary, cyber, cerebral, dark fairy tale
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RWD (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two men went searching for ghosts, but they found themselves instead.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark, light, surprise ending, scary, bleak, mockumentary, independent film
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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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Encounters (2014)
Plot Summary:
November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, spooky, light, road movie, psychotronic, dark
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End Roll (2012)
Plot Summary:
Laura and Marta share a nice apartment. Laura, the youngest one, began to document their life in the house with her camera. Marta undergoes the continual jokes of the friend. One day Laura, poking too much her nose in the privacy of Marta, discovers a dark secret that will compromise their friendship and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, spiritual, esoteric, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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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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Inner Demons (2014)
Plot Summary:
INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, demonic, spooky, scary, fake documentary
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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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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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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 Museum Project (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of students decide to base their media assignment on a local railway museum myth. However, when they trespass the premises after hours, they soon learn that some myths are more than stories.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, scary, bleak, disturbing, slasher, mockumentary, light, independent film
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Rorschach (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two skeptic researchers investigate a mother's claim that an unknown presence may be trying to communicate with her 7-year-old daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: dark, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, slasher, mockumentary, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Paranormal Entity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were called to the scene by Thomas Finley himself. He was found inside with his sister's body cradled in his arms.After questioning, Thomas was taken into custody. In his police statement, Thomas claimed that the victims were attacked by a demonic entity of unknown origin. Days later, he committed suicide.It is the opinion of those closely related to the family, that this video found at the scene be shown to the public as a final testament to what actually happened inside the Finley home in those final days.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, mockumentary, dark, mockbuster, retro, suspense, independent film
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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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Noroi (2005)
Plot Summary:
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, tense, serious, demonic, spooky, atmospheric, slasher, twisted, mockumentary
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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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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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The Bay (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours through people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge. What follows is a nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary, suspenseful, absurd, atmospheric, thought provoking, stylized, realistic
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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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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
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The Conjuring (2013)
Plot Summary:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 545000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, terrifying, creepy, demonic, splatter