Found
footage movies go by many other names: the mockumentary, cinéma vérité,
first-person POV. Love 'em or hate 'em, this device has been part of
the horror genre since the turn of the century. (Seriously!) The Blair Witch Project showed how so much could be done with so little, while Cloverfield proved
you could go big – very big – using the format. Below is a definitive
list of found footage flicks – from big budget to no budget; from all
four corners of the world; from the released, to the unreleased; and the
good, the bad, and everything in between. Keep in mind, I'll only be
including films that tell their movies entirely (or most entirely)
within the found footage format. For example, Blair Witch 1 will appear, but not Blair Witch 2, which uses a mixture of found footage and traditional narrative. (Additionally, I've had people nitpicking this list based on shooting techniques of some of the films included: i.e., found footage vs. a faux, sit-down, after-the-fact documentary. I am including both types, since both purport to be "real footage.")
So grab your infinite battery pack, leave your tripod at home, and start finding the footage of your choice below...
So grab your infinite battery pack, leave your tripod at home, and start finding the footage of your choice below...
Fields marked with N/A (Not Applicable) means info is unavailable or premature.
Quality Criteria:
- Excellent
- Above Average
- Average
- Below Average
- Just Terrible
Updates
5/9/14
- Added entries for V/H/S 3: Viral and The Zombinator.
8/7/13
- Added entries for Spirit in the Woods, Frankenstein's Army, and Absence.
7 Nights of Darkness
Director: Allen Kellogg
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Midnight Releasing / Brain Damage
Synopsis:
In 2008, six reality television show contestants spent seven nights in
an abandoned and haunted asylum. The show never aired but an editor for
the network was able to piece together some footage. The prize for
staying all seven nights was a share of one million dollars that was to
be split amongst any contestants that didn't leave. No prize money was
ever awarded.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average – (Read the full review.)
100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck
Director: The
Asylum has purposely withheld the name of the director to really make
you believe this is genuine footage. Too bad you have a brain.
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: In
2010, paranormal investigators tried to film Richard Speck's ghost at
the site of his heinous killing spree. The victims' families have
finally released the footage that documents their last days.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 0%
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Seriously…a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. You go, Asylum! Also...the greatest title...ever?
388 Arletta Avenue
Director: Randall Cole
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Canada
Studio/Video Label: Tribeca Film
Synopsis: On
the surface, James Deakin lives a quiet, routine, comfortable life with
his wife, Amy, in their suburban home. Under the subtle manipulation of
a faceless voyeur, however, cracks in their relationship begin to
emerge. When Amy suddenly disappears, James is left to wonder if she's
been abducted or simply abandoned him, but their tormentor doesn't stop
there. As the manipulations become more twisted and violent, James
desperately tries to identify just who's doing this to him and why, but
his adversary always seems to be one step ahead. Shot from the point of
view of hidden cameras concealed by the voyeur around the Deakins'
house, filmmaker Randall Cole injects new life into the found-footage
horror genre by grounding it in the every day.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 50%, Audiences – 21%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
1013 Briar Lane
Director: Michael Bayouth
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: U.S.
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis:
In 2008, a real-life mystery began to unfold when a real estate company
discovered video footage shot in one of its vacant properties. The
tapes have been acquired by local documentary filmmakers Jarrod Rogan
and Haman Movafagh, who set to work piecing together a series of bizarre
instances recorded by a man living in the house. Apparently waiting
for his wife and daughter to join him from out of state, the man began
documenting strange activity that kept him from sleeping for days on
end. The eerie recordings have become the subject of much controversy
among paranormal investigators, and are finally being released to the
general public. This first documentary from Son of Jason Films
challenges audiences to explain what happened in the house on Briar
Lane.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Unknown
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Unknown
8213: Gacy House (aka Paranormal Entity 2)
Director: Anthony Fankhauser
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: A
group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of pedophile
and serial killer John Wayne 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 séances 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 23%
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average
Randomness: There’s a scene
where a male investigator is dragged down the hallway by an unseen
force…as his pants are being pulled down. Hilari.
Director: ?
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: A group of young determined filmmakers, willing to go too far to get
the best reactions from their actors, venture down a self-realized path
to greatness. As they get to their final shoot location, the cast and
crew become terrified; the two filmmakers realize something has gone
horribly wrong and they've lost control of their own set... or have
they?
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating:N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Absence
Director: Jimmy Loweree
Year Made: 2013
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Flatiron Films
Synopsis: Doctors are baffled when a young expectant mother, Liz, wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy disappear overnight. The police are investigating the situation as a missing child case and only her husband, Rick, and brother, Evan, trust her version of events. Evan looks for answers by filming his sister’s experience. The trio embark upon a trip to the mountains to escape the attention of the police and prying neighbors. When the trip spins out of control, they realize that whatever happened with Liz and her baby isn’t over. None of them are safe.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating:N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Justin Thomas Billings
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis:
Newly-engaged Conor and Roxy celebrated a small, impromptu engagement
party with a close group of friends at a relative's lake house. Thomas
Mitch, a filmmaker, was in attendance. Conor, knowing that Mitch would
attend, used the opportunity to work on his junior psychology
dissertation project: a collection of video interviews. Mitch brought
his Canon XH-A1 HD video camera with him and began recording. The camera
was found, still recording, by the police. They refuse to release the
tape. Was absinthe the cause of the murders? You decide.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating:N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Addicted
Director: Sean J. Vincent
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: In 1987, David was a resident at ‘The Manor’ Drug Rehab Unit, being
kept addicted to heroin by Clinical Director Chris Hunter whilst he has
an affair with David’s wife. Chris eventually poisons David with
contaminated heroin, leaving him with horrendous facial disfigurement
and chronic pain. David soon hangs himself. 25 years later we follow Chris’ daughter, Nicole, as she tries to
break into TV journalism. Her boyfriend (Adam) suggests they spend a
night filming with friends in the now derelict Drug Rehab unit. There
have been recent reports of paranormal goings-on and they plan to try to
film them. It soon becomes clear, however, that they are very much not
alone…
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Akuma
Director: Deon Taylor
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Screen Media Films
Synopsis: Akira
Tanaka, a young and attractive but emotionally damaged Japanese woman,
moves to the United States to escape a past marked by tragedy. She moves
in with her sister, Hana, and her new husband, Adam, hoping to leave
her demons behind and start a new life. But as Akira's behavior grows
increasingly erratic and strange disturbances mark the night, Akira is
forced to reveal her real reason for coming: to flee the malevolent
spirit that has been tormenting her since childhood... and which appears
to have followed her here.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
Director: Dean Alioto
Year Made: 1998
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Dick Clark Productions
Synopsis: 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 56%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Writer/director Alioto remakes his previous film, Alien Abduction, with a bit more money.
Alien Origin
Director: Mark Atkins
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
Current IMDB Rating: 1.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: Rotten Tomatoes says 0% of people “want to see it.”
Alone with Her
Director: Eric Nicholas
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: IFC Films
Synopsis: Invasion
of privacy and domestic spying take on terrifying meaning in this
unsettling tale of voyeurism. A young man has a secret obsession for a
beautiful woman. By planting hidden cameras and listening devices in her
home, he learns her most intimate secrets in order to manipulate her
into a relationship that she innocently permits.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 69%, Audiences – 45%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Colin Hanks is fucking weird looking.
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Wrekin Hill Entertainment
Synopsis: Friends Nate and Samantha stumble upon the car described in an Amber Alert while filming their audition video for a popular reality television show. With police slow to respond, the two friends fight to stop a possible child molester before it's too late.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Amber Alert
Director: Kerry BellessaYear Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Wrekin Hill Entertainment
Synopsis: Friends Nate and Samantha stumble upon the car described in an Amber Alert while filming their audition video for a popular reality television show. With police slow to respond, the two friends fight to stop a possible child molester before it's too late.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Geoff Meed
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: Actual found footage that documents the horrifying experience of a family that moved into the infamous haunted house.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - N/A, Audience - 23%
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible - (Read the full review.)
Randomness: Don't be fooled. Should not be considered Amityville cannon in any respect.
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: Actual found footage that documents the horrifying experience of a family that moved into the infamous haunted house.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - N/A, Audience - 23%
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible - (Read the full review.)
Randomness: Don't be fooled. Should not be considered Amityville cannon in any respect.
The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes
Director: Casey Lascala and Daniel Farrands (?)
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes showcases the events after the time of the original The Amityville Horror book and movie through found footage dating back to 1976. An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror ... only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Being produced by Jason Blum et al. of Blumhouse productions.
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes showcases the events after the time of the original The Amityville Horror book and movie through found footage dating back to 1976. An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror ... only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Being produced by Jason Blum et al. of Blumhouse productions.
The Amityville Horror Untitled Prequel
Director: N/A
Year Made: Announced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Based
on the experiences of two reporters, Laura DiDio and Marvin Scott, who
investigated the incidents for New York's WNEW-TV. Plot is based on
DiDio and Scott’s account of a séance that was held in the house on
March 6, 1976, for a news report.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: This makes two Amityville Horror films in production with the same exact concept.
Anneliese: The Exorcism Tapes
Director: Jude Gerard Prest
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: Actual videotape and film recordings of the most infamous case of demonic possession and exorcism.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: The guy who plays the old German doctor is hysterically bad.
Apartment 143 (Emergo)
Director: Carles Torrens
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Spain (in English)
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Synopsis:
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of
anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment.
Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light
emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs are some of the
events they will face while recording their every step with
state-of-the-art technology. Using infrared filming, digital
photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic
field alteration meters, the group's attempts to contact the "other
side" will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no
return...
Current IMDB Rating: 5.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 30%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Written by the director of Buried.
Apollo 18
Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two 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 its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - 23%, Audiences - 26%
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: The real NASA released a statement prior to this film's release denouncing the film's contents and claims of legitimacy.
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two 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 its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - 23%, Audiences - 26%
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: The real NASA released a statement prior to this film's release denouncing the film's contents and claims of legitimacy.
Area 51
Director: Oren Peli
Year Made: 2010…2011…2012…
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis: Terror strikes when reporters visit a secret base that houses extraterrestrials.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Currently? As the movie that needs one reshoot after another…
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Is it ever coming out?
Area 51 Confidential
Director: Brandon Slagle
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: This film examines how people from various walks of life find themselves held captive in a desolate area surrounding a secret government installation rumored to contain extraterrestrial life. With no knowledge of how they arrived there, they must sort out their differences and find a way out - before strange lurking creatures find them first. Presented under the guise of a military training video for new hires at the facility known as Area 51, we follow the plight of a handful of individuals - a broadcast journalist, a documentarian, a teenage girl from Roswell, an army Colonel, and a man who had previously been thought "missing" for a number of years - as they awaken in the desert area surrounding Area 51. Shown through the eyes of military surveillance and a cleverly placed array of cameras.
Synopsis: This film examines how people from various walks of life find themselves held captive in a desolate area surrounding a secret government installation rumored to contain extraterrestrial life. With no knowledge of how they arrived there, they must sort out their differences and find a way out - before strange lurking creatures find them first. Presented under the guise of a military training video for new hires at the facility known as Area 51, we follow the plight of a handful of individuals - a broadcast journalist, a documentarian, a teenage girl from Roswell, an army Colonel, and a man who had previously been thought "missing" for a number of years - as they awaken in the desert area surrounding Area 51. Shown through the eyes of military surveillance and a cleverly placed array of cameras.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.6/10
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Unknown
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Unknown
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Formerly known as 051: Confidential.
Area 407
Director: Dale Fabrigar & Everette Wallin
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: IFC Films
Synopsis:
After taking off on a flight from New York to Los Angeles on New Years
Eve, the passengers of Flight 37A are soon sent into shock and alarm as
the plane experiences severe turbulence. The relentless weather attack
causes panic and terror amongst the passengers until the plane
ultimately crashes in a remote government-testing reserve, Area 407.
Through footage captured by two teenage sisters, the accident and crash
lead to further events that should not be viewed by the faint of heart.
As they continue to film, it becomes apparent that the remaining
survivors of Flight 37A may not survive the night.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 19%
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Atrocious
Director: Fernando Barreda Luna
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Spain
Studio/Video Label: Bloody Digusting Selects / The Collective
Synopsis: In April of 2010, Spanish police reported the discovery of 37 hours of recorded evidence that shed new light on a gruesome murder investigation. The found footage documents a family of five spending their holidays at their summer house, where brother-and-sister Cristian and July Quintanilla pass the time investigating a terrifying local urban legend. As their investigation intensifies, strange occurrences in and around the house escalate rapidly, before culminating in unspeakable atrocities.
Synopsis: In April of 2010, Spanish police reported the discovery of 37 hours of recorded evidence that shed new light on a gruesome murder investigation. The found footage documents a family of five spending their holidays at their summer house, where brother-and-sister Cristian and July Quintanilla pass the time investigating a terrifying local urban legend. As their investigation intensifies, strange occurrences in and around the house escalate rapidly, before culminating in unspeakable atrocities.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.8/10
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - 59%, Audiences - 33%
General Reputation: Average
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - 59%, Audiences - 33%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: The team behind Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister, have plans in place to remake this for American audiences. Here's hoping something actually happens in their version.August Underground
Director: Fred Vogel
Year Made: 2001
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Toe Tag Pictures
Synopsis:
Two serial killers go on a murdering rampage as one films the outcome
from behind a video camera. One of the most realistically portrayed
simulated snuff films.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Polarizing
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Exploitation at its most…exploitive.
August Underground’s Mordum
Director: Fred Vogel, Cristie Whiles, Jerami Cruise, & Michael Todd Schneider
Year Made: 2003
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Toe Tag Pictures
Synopsis: Two friends bring along a newcomer to go on a killing spree.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Polarizing
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Oh, did you want more deviance? Here you go.
August Underground’s Penance
Director: Fred Vogel and Cristie Whiles
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Toe Tag Pictures
Synopsis:
Has someone ever handed you a movie, not telling you one thing about
it, only telling you to watch it? What if that tape was the personal
home video of two sociopaths on a killing spree? This is their home
movie, for their eyes-only. This is August Underground's Penance, the
third and final film in the franchise. Penance shows the dark decline of
the two nameless killers from the previous films as they continue to
videotape their madness on their path to destruction.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Polarizing
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: The final film in this series? Say it ain’t so.
Back from Hell
Director: Leonardo Araneo
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Italy (in English)
Studio/Video Label: Inception Media Group
Synopsis: Six
friends decide to spend their holiday together and rent a manor house
in the countryside where they can leave behind the madness of city life.
Once there, they befriend a priest, Father Elia, who lives alone in the
adjoining church. Very soon the party mood turns frightening, as
strange phenomena, apparently paranormal, begin happening around the
group. It soon turns into a nightmare when one of the friends, Giorgio,
begins acting as if he is possessed, which the group interprets as being
demonic. While Alessandro, his best friend, tries to find a scientific
and rational explanation to the happenings, the other friends appeal to
Father Elia for assistance. He feels Giorgio is surely possessed by the
devil and tries to exorcise him. But in the end what is happening is
beyond their ability to understand and, moreover, their possibility to
control. Is Giorgio’s possession the sign of a larger, even more
diabolical phenomenon about to envelop the world?
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average - (Read the full review.)
The Bake Street Hauntings
Director: Michael Rocco
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Amazon DVD-on-demand
Synopsis:
A young couple accepts an offer for $2 million to stay in a haunted
house for a week. Based on real footage and events.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.4
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Baserca
Director: Víctor Masip and Pep Bernadó.Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: Spain
Studio/Video Label: ?
Synopsis: In Spring 2010, a group of eight young people disappeared in the valley of Baserca, a province of Lleida. The news caused a local uproar and the authorities investigated the case with discretion. With no clues to the culprits, they decide to seek help from the media. Five months later, the program "L'Empremta" will air the chilling facts in a documentary. It's time the legend became reality, but with a chilling argument that differs significantly from the original legend.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Year Made: 1999
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films (formerly Artisan Entertainment)
Synopsis: In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkitsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 83%, Audiences – 47%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Randomness: I still to this day do not understand the backlash against this film. In fact I find it a little infuriating.
Year Made: Unannounced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Director statement: "It's completely up to Lionsgate. Dan and I are ready to do it. We've been toying around with a sequel idea that we really like. It's just a matter of getting our schedules in line and having Lionsgate sign off on the idea. We've been ready to do a Blair Witch movie for a long time. We're as close as we've ever been to making it happen, but it's still not a guaranteed thing. Right now the idea has no first person in it at all, but we'll see. There's always room for new ideas to come in. The plan is to have [Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams] back. They're probably not going to be the main characters, but they're definitely characters in the sequel."
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion:N/A
Randomness: What the hell is your problem, Lionsgate? Just greenlight the damned thing already. Every found-footage movie to come out in the wake of the first Paranormal Activity has been massively profitable (okay, maybe not Apollo 18), so why this isn't in the works floors me. It's a guaranteed hit.
Country of Origin: Spain
Studio/Video Label: ?
Synopsis: In Spring 2010, a group of eight young people disappeared in the valley of Baserca, a province of Lleida. The news caused a local uproar and the authorities investigated the case with discretion. With no clues to the culprits, they decide to seek help from the media. Five months later, the program "L'Empremta" will air the chilling facts in a documentary. It's time the legend became reality, but with a chilling argument that differs significantly from the original legend.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Bay
Director: Barry Levinson
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis:
The quaint seaside town of Chesapeake Bay thrives on water it is the
lifeblood of the community. When two biological researchers from France
find a staggering level of toxicity in the water, they attempt to alert
the mayor, but he refuses to create a panic in the docile town. As a
result, a deadly plague is unleashed, turning the people of Chesapeake
Bay into hosts for a mutant breed of parasites that take control of
their minds, and eventually their bodies. A brutal and harrowing
creature feature for the 21st century, THE BAY chronicles the descent of
a small town into absolute terror.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - 75%; Audiences - 48%
General Reputation: Above Average.
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average.
Randomness: A great fake doc that wants to scare you with REAL information as opposed to more traditional horror tropes. Though it's a shame that the film is nearly mauled by the speech-impedimented girl they chose for the narrator lead character.
Director: Diego Adrián de Llano
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Brazi
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis: A bunch of Argentinians go out into the woods and scream, scream, scream.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Brazi
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis: A bunch of Argentinians go out into the woods and scream, scream, scream.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Director: Scott Glosserman
Year Made: 2006
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Anchor Bay
Synopsis:
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew
exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the
sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions
and archetypes of the horror genre for them.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 74%, Audiences – 71%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Randomness: An unheralded gem that pokes fun at the slasher genre, similar to Cabin in the Woods.
Bigfoot County
Director: Stephon Stewart
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis:
A group of filmmakers who ventured into Siskiyou County in Northern
California, an area widely known for its Bigfoot sightings, disappeared.
Their footage was found a year later.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Corey Grant
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: Canada
Studio/Video Label: XLRator Media
Synopsis:
Sean Reynolds, an eager television host, is on a mission to debunk
famed Bigfoot hunter Carl Drybeck, who claims to possess the body of a
dead Sasquatch. When the team arrives in Northern California, they are
immediately thrilled -- Drybeck’s zealous belief in his hoax is going to
make for a wildly entertaining episode of campy-paranormal television.
However, when Drybeck’s hunting partner is mysteriously attacked,
the team is left alone, and reality begins to set in. The evidence is
stacking up, Drybeck’s theory may not be a hoax, and the existence of
Bigfoot might just be the least of their worries. Shot on location in
the region of the world’s largest
concentration of Bigfoot sightings and based on the real accounts of
locals.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/AThe Black Door
Director: Kit Wong
Year Made: 2001
Country of Origin: U.S. / Canada
Studio/Video Label: Availability currently unknown
Synopsis:
Seattle, USA, 1999. At the demand of Meg, a camera crew investigates
the strange course of events that brought Steven, 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... The camera crew investigates on Steven's past
weeks, hoping to find the truth and learn what really happened to him.
Steven was doing historical research on trading between Mexico and the
US, and had focused his work on a man called Balmaseda, a prosperous
Mexican businessman who disappeared in 1932. This apparently innocuous
research led Steven to a much darker discovery... Everything seems to
revolve around a group of mysterious characters...
Current IMDB Rating: 5.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: I saw part of this a long time ago and don’t remember much. But I do remember it didn’t hold my interest.
The Blair Witch Project
Director: Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel MyrickYear Made: 1999
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films (formerly Artisan Entertainment)
Synopsis: In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkitsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 83%, Audiences – 47%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Randomness: I still to this day do not understand the backlash against this film. In fact I find it a little infuriating.
The Blair Witch Project 3
Directors: Edúardo Sanchez and Daniel MyrickYear Made: Unannounced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Director statement: "It's completely up to Lionsgate. Dan and I are ready to do it. We've been toying around with a sequel idea that we really like. It's just a matter of getting our schedules in line and having Lionsgate sign off on the idea. We've been ready to do a Blair Witch movie for a long time. We're as close as we've ever been to making it happen, but it's still not a guaranteed thing. Right now the idea has no first person in it at all, but we'll see. There's always room for new ideas to come in. The plan is to have [Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams] back. They're probably not going to be the main characters, but they're definitely characters in the sequel."
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion:N/A
Randomness: What the hell is your problem, Lionsgate? Just greenlight the damned thing already. Every found-footage movie to come out in the wake of the first Paranormal Activity has been massively profitable (okay, maybe not Apollo 18), so why this isn't in the works floors me. It's a guaranteed hit.
The Burningmoore Incident
Director: Jonathan Williams
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: The Burningmoore Incident
focuses on the murderous rampage that took place in March of 2010, in
Bayside Queens, as the construction team of Cole Contracting were being
video taped by multiple cameras on the first day of what was to be a
home makeover reality show. By sundown the house was a bloody scene of
carnage.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Cannibal Holocaust
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year Made: 1980
Country of Origin: Italy
Studio/Video Label: Grindhouse Releasing
Synopsis:
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the
Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians
who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 60&, Audiences – 64%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS
Review/Opinion: Above Average. (For those not used to exploitation
cinema, this one is sometimes difficult to sit through, but it’s worth
it. The moral may be a little heavy handed and the acting can sometimes
be atrocious, but it’s still a very affecting film.)
Randomness: Director Deodato was brought up on charges by authorities who believed the contents of the film to be real.
Chronicle
Director: Josh Trank
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:
Three high school students and friends make an incredible discovery,
leading to them developing uncanny superpowers beyond their
understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and initially
use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control,
and their darker sides soon begin to take over.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 86%, Audiences – 72%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Randomness:
Not entirely a horror film, but worth including here, as it's
excellent. Written by Max Landis, son of famed director John Landis.
Chronicles of an Exorcism
Director: Nick G. Miller
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Digital only.
Synopsis:
Based on what appears to be a true exorcism, and shot in documentary
style, Chronicles of an Exorcism is the story of amateur filmmakers who,
at the request of the Church, document an exorcism over a three-day
period. Father Michael and Father Lucas are two Priests called in by the
Church to exorcise the terror that lies within a young girl named Tina.
Aided by a local, the two Priests and the filmmakers join together in a
quest to save Tina. Soon after they begin the rites of exorcism they
realize the demon they seek is by far the most vicious and feared begin
in all the worlds. Chronicles of an Exorcism is a disturbing journey
into an unspeakable darkness never before captured on tape.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Cloverfield
Director: Matt Reeves
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis:
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.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 77%, Audiences – 67%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Randomness: I’m a little in love with Jessica Lucas.
The Collingswood Story
Director: Mike Costanza
Year Made: 2006
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Anchor Bay
Synopsis:
When Rebecca went away to college, John thought webcams would help them
keep in touch. But idle curiosity leads to a dark secret when they cam
with Vera Madeline, an online psychic, who initiates a deadly reign of
terror over their lives.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Randomness: Considering its budget, which must’ve been $20, it’s a nice and effective little film.
The Conspiracy
Director: Chris MacBride
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the
filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Dark Area
Director: Oliver Hummell
Year Made: 2000
Country of Origin: Germany
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis: Five friends get lost in the woods. Soon one by one gets killed by a mysterious person...
Current IMDB Rating: 2.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Darkest Night
Director: Noel Tan
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Philippines (in English)
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis:
Filmed in a "found video and mock-documentary" style, Darkest Night
depicts a family holiday reunion at an isolated home in the Philippine
Sagada Mountains. The family's happy time is shattered by bizarre,
supernatural and tragic horrors no one can explain. Their house is cut
off from civilization and plunged into darkness by forces that shut down
much of modern technology. Strange events rapidly spread fear and
panic. The area becomes totally isolated. Then, one by one, the family
members die or disappear in weird and terrifying ways, defying natural
laws. The few who are left, including the main characters, young Susan
and her fiancé Ken, struggle for survival amid family conflicts and dark
terrors. They must find out what is happening to them so they can
escape this deadly trap.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Desaparecidos (Missing)
Director: David Schurmann
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Brazil
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: A
VIP private party in a tropical island surrounded by rainforest. The
invitation, a small video camera (flipcam) that you have to wear around
your neck at all times. The cameras record randomly, and you never know
when they are on. Sounds like the best and sexiest party ever? It is
until a group of friends disappear in the forest. After weeks their
cameras are found; on them we discover what has happened and why the
authorities did not want these images to be revealed.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Devil Inside
Director: William Brent Bell
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis:
In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi
confessing to three brutal murders. The courts found her insane - but
something else found her first. Twenty years later, her daughter
Isabella’s search for answers led to an exorcism by two rogue priests
revealing that her mother is possessed by four powerful demons. Now,
Isabella must face pure evil or forsake her soul.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 7%, Audiences, 22%
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: What
could have been an “Above Average” film is marred by its go-nowhere
subplots and non-ending. But it's also not nearly as bad as you've
heard.
Diary of the Dead
Director: George A. Romero
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: Canada
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 62%, Audiences – 42%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average
Randomness: Hang it up with the zombies, Romero.
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: Ditch party is an edgy, contemporary urban tale of youth in rebellion against Mother Nature and technology. The story is seen through the eyes of a young girl named Samantha Gordon, a beautiful young lady whose first romantic experience turns out disastrous. The occasion was taped and has been posted on the Internet. A devout Christian, the guilt and embarrassment weighs on her tremendously. She feels she has lost God’s protection for the first time in her life. Her best friends arrive to her aid. They embark on their last trip together as high school seniors, the Ditch Party of Ditch Parties. The unsuspecting teenagers don’t realize they have been lured to a place called Owl's Point, a wooded wasteland that used to be an old mining community, until the cold vein underneath caught fire and has never stopped burning. The accident turned the city into a ghost town overnight, except for one old man who tries to warn the kids of where they’ve entered: The doorway to hell.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Ditch Party
Director: Michael HallYear Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: Ditch party is an edgy, contemporary urban tale of youth in rebellion against Mother Nature and technology. The story is seen through the eyes of a young girl named Samantha Gordon, a beautiful young lady whose first romantic experience turns out disastrous. The occasion was taped and has been posted on the Internet. A devout Christian, the guilt and embarrassment weighs on her tremendously. She feels she has lost God’s protection for the first time in her life. Her best friends arrive to her aid. They embark on their last trip together as high school seniors, the Ditch Party of Ditch Parties. The unsuspecting teenagers don’t realize they have been lured to a place called Owl's Point, a wooded wasteland that used to be an old mining community, until the cold vein underneath caught fire and has never stopped burning. The accident turned the city into a ghost town overnight, except for one old man who tries to warn the kids of where they’ve entered: The doorway to hell.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Dinosaur Project
Director: Sid Bennett
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: StudioCanal / Optimum Releasing (Region 2 only)
Synopsis:
African fishermen find an orange backpack floating gently on the water.
They are astonished to discover a waterproof container inside, full of
videotapes. Flash back to London and the announcement by
crypto-zoologist Jonathan Marchant of his expedition to find Mokele
Mbembe, a legendary dinosaur rumored to inhabit the Congo River. As
Jonathan's team boards a chopper to take them into the jungle, they are
accompanied by their mysterious and beautiful local guide, Amara; a TV
documentary crew equipped with state-of-the-art camera technology; and a
stowaway looking for adventure: Jonathan's rebellious but
multi-talented teenage son, Luke. After an attack by flying reptiles,
the helicopter crashes near a deserted village, and all the team's links
to the outside world go down. They are on their own. Or are they?
Current IMDB Rating: 4.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 31%, Audiences – 45%
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Reviews call it more of a family/adventure film than a full on horror film. And I love that poster.
Documenting the Grey Man
Director: Wayne Capps
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Camp Films
Synopsis:
On Monday, September 10 2007, police officers were called to
investigate possible multiple homicides at a historic Pawley's Island,
SC home. Investigators arrived to find what looked like documentary film
equipment. Five members of a ghost-hunting expedition were also
missing. "Extremely effective" with moments of "sheer horror" (ain't it
cool news), Documenting the Grey Man is a hair-raising paranormal
found-footage investigation by a group of avaricious actors determined
to exploit a family claiming to be haunted by a ghost. What they
encounter will terrify you.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.4
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS
Review/Opinion: Just Terrible – (Read the full review.)
Ends of the Earth
Directors: Derek Lee & Cliff Prowse
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: CBS Films
Synopsis: The film follows best friends who go on a whirlwind trip around the
world. All goes well until they have an unusual encounter that will
alter them forever. It is a found footage-style thriller with a vampire
angle.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS
Review/Opinion: N/A
Directors: Steven Stone
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: 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. The case was closed. In 2010, a small
English TV crew from the show 'Darkest Secrets' set out for the Siberian
forest. 'Darkest Secrets' focuses on revisiting the sites of unsolved
crimes and they employ the gifts of a psychic whose extraordinary powers
may help shed new light on cold cases. The last communication to their
production office in London stated that they were approaching the
Siberian region where the bodies were found. Nothing was heard from them
again. Entity is the story of what happened to them. The forest was
only the beginning...
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS
Review/Opinion: N/A
Episode 50
Director: Joe & Tess Smalley
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Image Entertainment
Synopsis:
Focuses on two television crews of paranormal experts: one team of
skeptics looking to de-bunk myths about ghosts and another consisting of
believers looking to prove their existence. Teaming up for the first
time for a special episode, the crews get more then they bargained for
when they actually make contact with a spirit of tremendous power and
must band together to stop it before it destroys them all.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: Get ready for the first Christian propaganda found footage film!
Evidence
Director: Howie Askins
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Showbox (European release.)
Synopsis: 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average - (Read the full review.).
Exists
Director: Edúardo Sanchez
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: From the co-director of The Blair Witch Project.
Director: Will Raee
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Image Entertainment
Synopsis:
In 1983, a renowned psychiatrist named Eric Forester was granted
permission by the Catholic Church to document and prove the validity of
demonic possession. He was assigned several different priests, who at
the time, were investigating people allegedly possessed by demons. The
Church hoped that Dr. Forester’s expertise in the field of abnormal
psychology would determine the authenticity of each case. The project
was later titled The Exorcist Chronicles.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Not to be confused with Chronicles of an Exorcism.
Director: Joey Evans
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Midnight Releasing
Synopsis: Aa
small group of Texas paranormal investigators – Rayne, Sam, Tor, Father
Bowden, Echo and Shelly – are filming three adventures for their
reality TV show where they encounter a variety of entities, spirits and
ghosts. During the final chapter, their investigation run head on into a
demon that dwells in the underground tunnels beneath a nearby community
college. What they discover will test the beliefs, their fears and
their will to survive. With only the ghost of a young boy lost in the
tunnels for ages to guide them, the group must solve the mysteries
before daybreak or perish along with the secrets hidden in the dark,
haunted passageways.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Dominic Perez
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Inception Media Group
Synopsis: The
film opens with the familiar story of college kids on an idyllic winter
weekend trip, but ends in a state of horror and terror that will keep
audiences at the edge of their seat. Miriam, celebrating her 21st
birthday, gets the use of a beautiful country house for the weekend.
Miriam invites four college friends to join her at the house for what is
supposed to be an amazing weekend. Of course, they all jump at the
chance. One of her friends, Leo, brings his video camera and hopes to
produce a short movie by documenting every moment of this weekend
getaway. Unfortunately, what Leo ends up capturing on camera is not a
weekend of peace and tranquility but a nightmarish and emotional descent
into pure terror.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 18%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average – (Read the full review.)
Randomness: What terrible artwork.
Director: Dom Rotheroe
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: IndiePix
Synopsis:
Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating
under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. All is
not as it seems as the King family go about their day-to-day lives
oblivious of the horror to come. Dad Andy (Bradley Cole) is nursing a
secret that ultimately leads to terrible consequences for them all. We
witness these chilling events unfold through daughter Judith's video
camera, which subsequently becomes Exhibit A.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Bjorn Anderson
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Amazon DVD-on-demand
Synopsis:
Seven college students as they take a weekend trip to a lodge in the
Cascade Mountains. As they film themselves for their video blog, they
record some strange occurrences. The students and the lodge's caretaker
come across a mysterious cave with unusual markings. They soon become
hunted by an unknown force with glowing red eyes.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Marko Marinkovic
Year Made: 2013
Country of Origin: Serbia
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Serbia – Krusevac Theatre – 2013. A group of young artists remain locked in the building all night. Without the audience and the actors, the stage is dark, cold, eerie … There, in the dark, they will be searched for, but they are long lost, they will scream, and their voices will be lost in the silence. With the last flash from their eyes, with the last cry from the soul, they will see a fallen angel. He is the one who invented the game, dictated the rules and determined the one who will survive.
Synopsis: Serbia – Krusevac Theatre – 2013. A group of young artists remain locked in the building all night. Without the audience and the actors, the stage is dark, cold, eerie … There, in the dark, they will be searched for, but they are long lost, they will scream, and their voices will be lost in the silence. With the last flash from their eyes, with the last cry from the soul, they will see a fallen angel. He is the one who invented the game, dictated the rules and determined the one who will survive.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Steve Gibson
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Currently available only through the film’s official site
Synopsis:
Having secured what appears to be the ultimate venue in the form of the
historic Brenway Movie Theatre, the "Ghost Chasers," a team of reality TV
paranormal investigators, are confident that their annual live
broadcast will be one of their best shows to date. However, when the
sleepy Central Pennsylvania movie house turns out to be a bit more
active than they had anticipated, the prospect of record-breaking
ratings quickly takes a back seat to the basest of all human instincts:
Survival.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible.
Director: ?
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Online series
Synopsis: Deep in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, an elite archaeological expedition is on the verge of a historic discovery. Led by Archaeologist Dr. Sarah Parker, the group uncovers the site of famed 1930's Primatologist Bernard Greenwell. Examining Greenwell's notes, Dr. Parker and her team are led to a prehistoric hominid burial site. As the expedition moves forward and press generating evidence is discovered, opposing agendas and interpersonal conflicts arise and the delicate core of unity among the group quickly unravels. When the team's camp is mysteriously ransacked they find themselves with few defenses against the elements and even fewer resources. Casualties escalate and fear becomes an inevitable descent into insanity as they try to find their way out of the woods. Their fight to survive gives way to fear; for in even these most inhumane of circumstances the real terror has yet to begin. For on these ancient grounds men become prey... Tales of its legend has inspired fear in every known culture to humankind. Modern scholars have debated its existence for decades. Documented sightings have been recorded throughout history. In 2011, it finds us ...
Synopsis: Deep in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, an elite archaeological expedition is on the verge of a historic discovery. Led by Archaeologist Dr. Sarah Parker, the group uncovers the site of famed 1930's Primatologist Bernard Greenwell. Examining Greenwell's notes, Dr. Parker and her team are led to a prehistoric hominid burial site. As the expedition moves forward and press generating evidence is discovered, opposing agendas and interpersonal conflicts arise and the delicate core of unity among the group quickly unravels. When the team's camp is mysteriously ransacked they find themselves with few defenses against the elements and even fewer resources. Casualties escalate and fear becomes an inevitable descent into insanity as they try to find their way out of the woods. Their fight to survive gives way to fear; for in even these most inhumane of circumstances the real terror has yet to begin. For on these ancient grounds men become prey... Tales of its legend has inspired fear in every known culture to humankind. Modern scholars have debated its existence for decades. Documented sightings have been recorded throughout history. In 2011, it finds us ...
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Frankenstein's Army
Director: Richard Raaphorst
Year Made: 2013
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Dark Sky Films
Synopsis: In the dying days of World War II, a battalion of Russian soldiers find themselves lost in enemy territory. Stumbling upon a village decimated by an unseen terror, they’re lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist (Hellboy’s Karel Roden) and forced to face off against his army of horrific flesh-and-metal war machines. Leaderless and faced with dissention amongst their dwindling ranks, the Russians must find the courage to face down this terrifying new menace – or die trying.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 69%, Audiences – 40%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Some wicked visuals in the trailer. Also, Karel Roden is awesome. Looking forward to it.The Frankenstein Theory
Director: Andrew Weiner
Year Made: 2013
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of
horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based
on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is
suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor
John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic
Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His
theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a
work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen
wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a
creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an
unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from
which there is no waking.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 0%
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: General consensus seems to be that a need concept was wasted on a movie in which the titular character barely appears.
Director: Evan Cholfin
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: On
December 16th, 2011, eight people on their way to Las Vegas stopped in
the ghost town of Garlock, California. This footage documents what
happened.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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Director: Andreas Tom
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Germany
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: In
2011, three teenagers did an overnight stay in an old, abandoned
clinic, where allegedly experiments on children were performed in the
mid-1900s. The teenagers were never found. But their footage was.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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Director: Lesley Manning
Year Made: 1990
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: BBC
Synopsis: The
BBC gives over a whole evening to an 'investigation into the
supernatural'. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to
discover the truth behind 'The most haunted house in Britain', expecting
a light-hearted scare or two and probably the uncovering of a hoax.
They think they are in control of the situation. They think they are
safe. The viewers settle down and decide to watch 'for a laugh'. Ninety
minutes later the BBC, and the country, was changed, and the
consequences are still felt today.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 70%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent - (Read the review.)
Randomness: Ghostwatch was
so effective it actually caused cases of post-traumatic stress syndrome
in a couple viewers, leading to one of their suicides. There is also a
documentary currently in the works called Behind the Curtain that
examines the legacy and staying impact of Ghostwatch.
Director: ?
Year Made: Announced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Dreamworks
Synopsis: A found footage movie about time travel.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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Director: The Vicious Brothers
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Tribeca
Synopsis: Lance
Preston and the crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality
television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned
Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been
reported for years. All in the name of good television, they voluntarily
lock themselves inside the building for the night and begin a
paranormal investigation, capturing everything on camera. They quickly
realize that the building is more than just haunted - it is alive - and
it has no intention of ever letting them leave. They find themselves
lost in a labyrinth maze of endless hallways and corridors, terrorized
by the ghosts of the former patients. They soon begin to question their
own sanity, slipping deeper and deeper into the depths of madness,
ultimately discovering the truth behind the hospital's dark past...and
taping what turns out to be their final episode.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 50%, Audiences – 50%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Director: John Poloquin
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Tribeca Film
Synopsis: In 2011, Grave Encounters
was a found-footage horror phenomenon from the Vicious Brothers, with a
trailer garnering over 20 million views on YouTube. Many people
believed it was just a movie. They were wrong, and film student Alex
Wright is out to prove it. While researching the events depicted in the
original film and the subsequent disappearance of its lead ”actor” Sean
Rogerson, Alex Wright received a bizarre video from a mysterious blogger
named “DeathAwaits666." Appearing to show Rogerson still alive but
trapped inside the Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital from Grave Encounters,
Alex and his friends agree to meet the blogger at the infamous hospital
in hopes of learning what really happened. To their horror they quickly
find themselves face-to-face with unspeakable evil. Realizing that they
must be smarter and faster than Rogerson and his crew to avoid
suffering the same fate, they use their knowledge of the original film
to do whatever it takes to survive.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 13%, Audiences – 37%
General Reputation: Average.
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average.
Director: Sean Stone
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: XLrator
Synopsis:
Back in October '09, a trio of filmmaking friends break into Greystone,
an abandoned asylum, to explore whether or not they believe in the
supernatural. But legend has it that anyone who ventures into the
hospital will lose their mind. And the young trio will now have to
suffer the consequences of their journey into a mysterious realm of
escaped patients, ghosts, and demonic "shadows." What comes out of this
adventure is a haunting tale of the supernatural, made all the more
startling because it is real.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Below Average.
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average.
Randomness: Director Sean Stone is son of the legendary Oliver Stone.
Director: Ian Clark
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: Vertigo Films
Synopsis: At
a remote medical compound, a group of strangers begin clinical trials
of an experimental drug called Pro-9. As the drug's sinister, unexpected
side-effects begin to take hold, the terrified volunteers find
themselves trapped, isolated, and in mortal danger.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Rich Praytor
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Anti-Jerking Off Films
Synopsis: In
the film, we follow a young family whose patriarch has a burgeoning
interest in both amateur videography and jacking off to people screwing,
the latter of which gets he and his similarly-flesh-craving sons in
some trouble when his seemingly innocuous "box of porn" begins to
manifest its evils. "Where there was light, there's dark," explains the
porn lover's wife, describing both the chilling presence and the hot
interracial gang bang lingering about their porn box. The director
himself describes the presence as "much like a poltergeist," but in this
trailer you only see a bride waiting for a door to unlock and a
scowling mom guarding a yeti cave, neither of whom seem all that much
like a poltergeist, so I don't know. Perhaps the true evil is the
sinful, insatiable pornographic desire that, with but a few hurried
gestures of the hand, just seems to fade away, much like a poltergeist.
(Amazing synopsis courtesy of I Watch Stuff.)
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Randomness: The second ever Christian propaganda found footage film…but the first about the dangers of pornography.
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Year Made: 1922
Country of Origin: Sweden
Studio/Video Label: Criterion
Synopsis: Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan
is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and
mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film
was made as a documentary but contains dramatized and horrific
sequences.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 88%, Audiences – 80%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Blair Witch creators Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick named their production company after this film.
Directors: Tony Kern & Andrew Lau
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Singapore
Studio/Video Label: Seminal Films
Synopsis: A group of local filmmakers explore the famously haunted Old Changi Hospital in Singapore with terrifying and tragic results.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average – (Read the full review.)
Director: Cheol-ha Lee
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: China
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Over
the past 42 years, six people have gone missing, eight people have died
"accidentally" and eleven cases of murder have occurred in a deserted
house. Three members of an abandoned house exploring club and three staff
members of a broadcasting company go into the deserted house. All of
them disappear. Only a video is
left behind ...
Current IMDB Rating: 4.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Directors: Pau Masó & Ewelina Lukaszewska
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Poland
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: A
couple travel to Poland but find themselves disturbed by an evil force
when the girl returns to her home town where she once played a Ouija
board.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Haunted
Poland has garnered negative reviews and the director/actor has been
accused of "borrowing liberally from Paranormal Activity". In addition,
the first teaser for the film holds a 90% negative bar rate on YouTube.
The director released a statement on Dread Central to stop the negativity the trailer created: "Haunted Poland
was meant to be an 'experimental' project. This is not a Hollywood film
with a budget of 20 million dollars. This film was completely shot on a
consumer camera, with an estimate budget of $1,000." (Wiki.)
Director: Anthony Spadaccini
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Fleet Street Films
Synopsis: The
film is presented as a collection of home movies from serial killers
Wayne and Andrea Montgomery, middle-class suburban residents of
Claymont, Delaware who film their sadistic crimes.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Chris Stokes
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: Seven
friends on a road trip to Las Vegas break down near a rest-stop motel,
where they encounter a seemingly helpful group of people. Convinced to
stay overnight, the friends wake up in their rooms to a gruesome and
bloody terror.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Michael Axelgaard
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: Tribeca
Synopsis: 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible.
Director: Christopher Denham
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: IFC Films
Synopsis: Home
Movie documents one family's descent into darkness through compilation
of the Poe family's homemade video footage. In the remote woods of
upstate New York, David and Clare Poe are attempting to live an idyllic
life. However, the Poe children are hiding a dark secret and something
is wrong with ten-year old twins, Jack and Emily Poe. To stop them,
their parents must enter the nightmare of their children’s minds. As
they try to regain control of the children’s lives, the pressing
question becomes who will ultimately survive the battle.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: Param Gill
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: India
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: At
the height of the swine flu scare, a hotel in Hong Kong was quarantined
for one week. The story goes on to tell the sequence of events that
follow.
Current IMDB Rating: 9.1 (?)
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Amanda Gusack
Year Made: 2005
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Only available online.
Synopsis:
Two months after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Dennis Wade, a
struggling filmmaker, decides to document his illness. Still free from
symptoms, he and his girlfriend, Lily, sublet a house and install
motion-triggered security cameras throughout. Two days later…the cameras
capture something unsettling: Noises and movement in empty rooms. The
next morning, Dennis’ cancer begins to advance at an inexplicable rate.
As Dennis worsens by the day, he and Lily discover the horrific source
of the disturbances. With his time running out, they must make a
decision: Leave the house and save her life…or stay…and save his.”
Current IMDB Rating: 5.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Rumors abound that this movie, made several years before Paranormal Activity, was close to release when it was somehow blocked by P.A. director Oren Peli.
Director: Mariano Cattaneo
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Argentina
Studio/Video Label: Raven Banner Entertainment
Synopsis: Three
years ago an employee at the Nacan factory killed 16 workers and
himself. A special police division could find no reason for the
mass-murder and labelled the case “Incidente” (the name Argentinian
Police use for cases with no logical or reasonable explanation).
Journalist Romina Salustik and her cameraman, Christian, were hired to
make a documentary about the murders, reconstructing what happened that
day. They returned to the factory with their crew, along with a
specialist and a priest, only to never be seen alive again. This film is
the very dark and disturbing unfinished documentary tape recovered from
the scene by the police.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Zak Penn
Year Made: 2004
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: A
handful of filmmakers looking for the fabled sea serpent of Loch Ness
get a look at another sort of monster in this witty mock documentary.
Under commission from producer and screenwriter Zak Penn, notoriously
eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Scotland to shoot
his latest film, a documentary called "The Enigma of Loch Ness" which
examines the myth of the Loch Ness monster and its role in the
collective unconsciousness of the Scottish people rather than attempting
to capture and photograph the creature itself. As Herzog is shooting
his film, another filmmaker, John Bailey, tags along to shoot a film
about Herzog shooting a film using the provisional title "Herzog in
Wonderland." While Herzog and Bailey ruffle one another's feathers,
Herzog begins to suspect Penn hired his crew more for their ability to
generate "real life drama" on camera rather than their skills,
especially Kitana Baker, a supposed "sonar engineer" who happens to have
been a model for Playboy. As the production falls into chaos, neither
Herzog or Bailey are able to complete their projects, and a pair of
editors are brought in to combine footage shot by both crews into a
coherent whole.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 62%, Audiences – 64%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: Albert Pyun
Year Made: 2005
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: On
May 19, 2004, an unprecedented biological outbreak occurred in Lawton,
California. A classified N.S.A.A. report detailed the carnage that
ensued that night. This film is based on that top-secret report.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Shot entirely from the point of view from a police cruiser dashboard camera.
Director: Albert Pyun
Year Made: Announced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Again, it will be a single unedited shot that will follow the
infection into a small town. It will be set in the time period between
1:40 AM (when the first film ended) and 3:00 AM. The continuation begins
immediately after the first infection ended, and the one shot will be
an 80-minute continuous 3D shot. We'll discover that the infection has
something to do with Area 51 and the aliens held captive there since the
late 40's. In fact, we will be shooting near the actual Area 51 in
Amargosa Valley, Nevada - the last service for travelers before Area 51.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: T. Michael Conway
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Digital download only.
Synopsis: What
happened on June 9? On a search for some harmless fun at the end of the
school year, 17 year-old Derek Boggman led his friends on a mischievous
journey of caught-on-camera pranks. But on their quest to find even
bigger thrills, something else found them first. The "Boston Mills 5"
were never heard from again...until now. Witness the complete recording
of the horrors surrounding June 9. The first scream was for fun. The
second scream was for help.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average
Director: Chris Sheng
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate
Synopsis: Based
on found footage, the story centers on four friends in their early 20s.
Last year, on the night before Halloween, they decided to go on a
self-made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses.
The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever
since.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: An in-name-only sequel to the first non-found-footage-flick Knock Knock, which, based on that title, is probably awful.
Director: Joel Anderson
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: Australia
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old
Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is
recovered and a verdict of accidental death returned, her grieving
family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and
inexplicable events centred around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the
Palmers seek the help of psychic and parapsychologist, Ray Kemeny.
Kemeny discovers that Alice led a double life. A series of clues lead
the family to Lake Mungo where Alice's secret past emerges.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 93%, Audiences – 51%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent – (Read the full review.)
Randomness: The last movie to truly give me the creeps.
Directors: Stefan Avalos & Lance Weiler
Year Made: 1998
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Wavelength Releasing
Synopsis: Presented
as a documentary, and using the footage of the victims to show the
events "as they happened", the tale follows a documentary film-maker's
investigation into the mysterious murders of three would-be television
personalities in the lonely Pine Barrens of New Jersey, and the
purported guilt or innocence of the man later arrested and convicted of
the slayings.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 50%, Audiences – 40%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: I do not understand this movie’s stellar reputation. At all.
Director: Julian Richards
Year Made: 2003
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: Bedford Entertainment / Fangoria
Synopsis: A
serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What
begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through
the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste
for human flesh.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 56%, Audiences – 53%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Director: Daniel Stamm
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: When
he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend
Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a
disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has
contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage
daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before
their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under
the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers
with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary
documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already
blood-drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have
prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to
turn back, Reverend Marcus’ own beliefs are shaken to the core when he
and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it
is too late.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 73%, Audiences – 33%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: James Phillips
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Australia
Studio/Video Label: Amazon DVD-on-demand
Synopsis:
On December 15 2010, a group of friends set out for a day's mountain
bike ride. 4 days later, a search and rescue team retrieved a
helmet-mounted video camera. Last Ride is the complete unedited
79-minute footage of their ordeal.
Current IMDB Rating: 1.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Eric Anthony Pereira
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: August
19th 1993 - Police raid the cabin home of a Mr. Abel Honeycutt based on
a 911 call placed by a hysterical woman who had managed to escape from
what she describes as a "house of horrors". When police arrive at the
cabin, what they discovered on the property defies comprehension. Bones,
blood, cannibalized bodies...Abel, and his now missing children, had
spent decades feeding on hikers, passersby and vacationers who wandered
near his property. Perhaps even more telling and damaging than the
bodies they found, was the evidence retrieved in the Honeycutt basement:
three worn and damaged VHS tapes belonging to a Mr. Paul Muldowney, a
filmmaker who had gone missing in 1987 along with seven other people.
The tapes have recently been made public record.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Directors: Nathan Hynes & Chris Power
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: Canada
Studio/Video Label: Big Bite Entertainment
Synopsis:
Anthony McAlistar is a jovial fellow who just happens to give Hannibal
Lecter a run for his money in the cannibal serial-killer territory.
Introduced preparing his own unsavory type of meal, Anthony regales the
camera with philosophical anecdotes, aware that, as the subject of a
documentary being shot by a pair of young filmmakers, he's the star of
the program. The satire grows more pungent as the story progresses and
the line between comedy and horror becomes thinner, calling into
question not just Anthony's horrific actions but the role the camera
plays in them.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 72%
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Loss of Life
Directors: David Damiata & Michael Matteo Rossi
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin:
Country of Origin:
Studio/Video Label:
Synopsis: On October 31, 2011, in North Hollywood, California, a group of high school friends decided to document their Halloween night out. What they end up documenting is a horrific bloody attack that quickly becomes the worst night of their lives. This film is the compilation of the footage found that night.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Dibakar Banerjee
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: India
Studio/Video Label: Alt. Entertainment
Synopsis: The
film is a satire on the way television news media has been turning into
cheap entertainment, feeding social voyeurism without taking any
significant moral or ideological stance. The movie has three sub-plots
involving honor killings, MMS scandals, and sting operations, which have
become recurring phenomena of TV news in India, reported on in a lurid
language, accompanied by flashing headlines, and dramatic music which
simultaneously sensationalizes and trivializes the very serious issues
involved: caste-ism in nouveau riche India, sexual privacy and blackmail
by media.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Robert Nathan
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: The story centers on Mike, who runs the Lucky Bastard website; Dave, a young fan given a chance to have sex with a porn actress; and Ashley Saint, the porn star who reluctantly agrees to participate in the website’s “have sex with a porn star” contest. In the end, everyone gets more than they bargained for when the seemingly mild-mannered Dave is irrevocably transformed by his experience. When, as Ashley predicted, Dave becomes humiliated, his personality is transformed and he seeks revenge on his tormentors. In this world, where everyone is safe within its borders, an outsider poses the ultimate danger.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Even though it has no studio representation as of yet, it's already been rated NC-17.
Director: Matthew Avant
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Virgil Films and Entertainment
Synopsis:
Two documentary filmmakers accidentally uncover the greatest moon
secret the world has never known, and the powerful organization
determined to keep it that way.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 73%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average – (Read the full review.)
Randomness: A not-so-thinly-veiled attack on Scientology.
Director: Rémy Belvaux & André Bonzel.
Year Made: 1992
Country of Origin: France
Studio/Video Label: Criterion
Synopsis:
In this dark satire, a film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless
killer as he goes about his daily routines. But complications set in
when the film crew loses their abjectness and begin lending a hand.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 75%, Audiences – 89%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Randomness: Probably the coolest Criterion art yet.
Director: Scott Phillips
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Monterey Video
Synopsis:
In a sleepy and uneventful small town, three college students, bored
and desperate to make their mark, plot a savage and merciless murder.
Electing to keep a video journal to memorialize their bizarre pact, they
plot in secret, devising a homemade death chamber that will allow them
to see, hear, feel, and linger over their intended victim's torment and
final moments of life. Then, chosen at random, a fellow student becomes
this victim when she is to receive perhaps the most brutal and
horrifying of all fates. The default leader of this macabre trio directs
the physical and psychological terror, even as contention and hostility
within the group threatens to jeopardize their twisted plan,
culminating in a violent and chilling conclusion.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 13%
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Michael K. Goi
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Anchor Bay
Synopsis:
On January 14th, 2007, 14-year-old Megan Stewart disappeared. Three
weeks later, her 13-year-old best friend Amy Herman also vanished.
Assembled from video chats, webcam footage, home videos and news
reports, this is what happened in the days immediately before, and
after, Megan went missing.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 40%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Bryan Bertino (?)
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: A couple are given a camera and a set of instructions which they must follow or else someone will die.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Being produced by Jason Blum et al. of Blumhouse productions.
Randomness: Being produced by Jason Blum et al. of Blumhouse productions.
Director: Erik Estenberg
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: Japan (in English)
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: Erin
and sister Sarah travel to Japan to do interviews about global warming.
However, on the 1st day of said interviews Tokyo suffers a horrendous
earthquake and as they take cover, they soon discover the rumbling is
caused by something quite different. The video shown documents their
desperate attempt to escape while filming the events befalling them as
it happens. What follows is their shaky hand-held footage that appears
to have been recovered and presumably posted posthumously for all to see
on the Internet.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Marc Evans
Year Made: 2002
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Universal
Synopsis: Five
young people apply to live in an isolated house together for six months
whilst their every move is filmed by numerous cameras. Each has their
reason for wanting to be there - fame, money, adventure. The prize - $1
million. The rules - if one person leaves, everyone loses. It becomes
the ultimate morality test. When Danny's beloved grandfather dies, does
his greed overcome his love? When the skittish Emma finds blood on her
pillow, why does she still stay behind? And what dark secret does the
house harbor that leaves them feeling as though they're being watched by
more than just a million pairs of eyes?
Current IMDB Rating: 5.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 53%, Audiences – 39%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Features a pre-stardom Bradley Cooper.
Director: Nicolas Smith
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Freestyle Digital
Synopsis: On
the eve of the annual Scarecrow Festival, two St. Charles police
officers search for a return killer the same night four teenagers go
missing on Munger Road.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Daniel Stamm
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: MPI Home Video
Synopsis:
Film student Gilbert has a novel idea for his final thesis project:
find someone who wants to kill him/herself and follow them through the
final days of their life. Gilbert posts a message on the internet
looking for a suitable subject, and after interviewing a handful of
people with various reasons for taking their life, he chooses a British
expatriate who is slowly dying of an inoperable brain tumor. Assured
that his subject will actually commit suicide on film, Gilbert believes
he has found the perfect candidate to explore the nature of the act
objectively. But as filming goes on, it soon becomes apparent that the
creative process is impacting the man's road towards death, and before
long Gilbert and his crew become more involved than they ever wanted to
be.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 83%, Audiences – 64%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent – (Read the full review.)
Director: Paul Jay (?)
Year Made: N/A
Country of Origin: ?
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: The film is an attempt at documenting a filmmaker's (Paul Jay) ill-fated attempt to make the next big thing.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Well then...
Randomness: Well then...
Director: Richard Parry
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: 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?
Current IMDB Rating: 3.5
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Stars Monsters' Scoot McNairy.
Randomness: Stars Monsters' Scoot McNairy.
Director: Lv Jianmin
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: China
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America.
Synopsis: A pseudo-record Guoneishoubu horror film, about male
and female B, 32 villas in the encountering the story of supernatural
events, with DV capture the way, guide the viewer deeper into the film,
where to explore the truth behind the story. That person is a ghost, or
phantom? DV gift to the film’s horror film atmosphere and hit the
horrors of human hearts. (Auto-translated to English, naturally.)
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
Year Made: 2005
Country of Origin: Japan
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America.
Synopsis:
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal
incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the
"kagutaba."
Current IMDB Rating: 7.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Contains some creepy images, but it’s too slow – and Tinfoil Man takes you right out of the movie.
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: Japan
Studio/Video Label: Creative Axa Company Ltd.
Synopsis: 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Norio Tsuruta
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: Japan
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis: Ghost
stories are just urban myths, or so Mirai and Haruna thought when they
hosted a paranormal video event on their pop culture talk show. But when
a tragic suicide from decades ago inexplicably appears on their
powered-down television, the girls must complete a demonological ritual
to bring peace to this mystery.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Oren Peli
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis: After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.4
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 82%, Audiences – 57%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: Tod Williams
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis:
After experiencing what they think is a series of "break-ins," a family
sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the
events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 59%, Audiences – 50%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Randomness: My personal favorite of the first three films.
Director: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis: In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity that resides in their home.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 68%, Audiences – 54%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Paranormal Activity 4
Director: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis: (Spoilers
for previous films.) The film takes place five years after Paranormal
Activity 2, which ended with Katie kidnapping Hunter. Now, Katie and
Hunter (now called 'Robbie') have moved into a new house and their
neighbors, Alice and her mother, begin experiencing paranormal events
taking place in their home. Cameras have been set up in Alice and
Katie's homes, it appears Alice is using a laptop webcam and Katie is
using a baby monitor. (Wiki.)
Current IMDB Rating: 4.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics - 28%; Audiences - 50%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average. A cool final two minutes does not make up for a DOA previous 88.
Year Made: 2013
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Paramount
Synopsis: Some
random family finds a reason to have cameras running in every room of
the house 24/7 until Katie shows up and demons them to death.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Just getting it ready...
Randomness: Just getting it ready...
Director: Toshikazu Nagae.
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Japan
Studio/Video Label: Presidio Corporation
Synopsis: The
Yamano family lives in a remote area of Tokyo, Japan. With their father
away on business, 19-year-old Koichi is left to look after his
wheelchair-bound sister, Haruka, who has returned to Japan early after
surviving a car accident whilst traveling in America. Soon after
Haruka’s return from the States, strange and unexplainable things start
to happen in the Yamano home. As the incidents continue to grow
increasingly stranger and more severe, Koichi persuades his sister to
set up a video camera to try and capture them on film. What Koichi
discovers is beyond anything he could have ever imagined, and as the
situations intensify, a terrible fact is revealed.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average
Randomness: The official Japanese sequel!
Director: Michael Bartlett & Kevin Gates
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Director statement: "I grew up in an area of Bedfordshire in the UK
rich in legends of witchcraft and knew of a local ruin that had a
history of black magic and the occult and always thought it had
potential for a film. So I started doing some research. It wasn't long
before an approach to the film was established. Something that contained
a Zombie Diaries flavour, but which mixed it with a real legend and
true accounts of Aleister Crowley-esque goings on up at an isolated
ruined church. Clophill is a sleepy Bedfordshire village and was a
famous occult landmark in the 1960s and 1970s. Even today you get scores
of teenagers going up there to scare themselves every night. And I was
surprised that no one had done a serious film on the place before. So I
assembled a small crew and several real witnesses to events up there of
both witchcraft and ghostly sightings. We spent a long weekend up at Clophill - interviewing locals,
witnesses, and experts and conducting experiments at night, setting up
cameras, Ouija boards, ghost boxes, all manner of bizarre contraptions
to see if there really was anything to the legend. Within that
framework, I also wrote in a dark story of the occult and paranormal,
which Mike and I directed. So what you're seeing is a real mix of fact
and fiction."
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Directors: Ryuichi Asano & Teruo Ito
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Japan
Studio/Video Label: Amazon DVD-on-demand
Synopsis: Visiting
her native Japan with her American boyfriend Darren, Reiko is
disappointed to see him spend most of his time filming local
stereotypes. Already upset, Reiko draws the line when Darren walks into a
forbidden cave, which, according to local beliefs, enshrines Shinto
gods since the dawn of time. From then, Reiko and Darren start
witnessing strange things happening around them, some of which they
manage to catch on camera. Will they have time to understand what is
upon them before it is too late?
Current IMDB Rating: 3.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Shane Van Dyke
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Asylum
Synopsis: Prepare
to see what is allegedly the "actual footage" of the supernatural
events leading up to the 2008 murder of Samantha Finley. Released
against the wishes of the authorities, this DVD proves that nothing
human caused Samantha's death.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 31%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Below Average
Director: Matthew Bolton
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Media Blasters
Synopsis: The
infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred
within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with
cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the
existence of the paranormal. Thrills turn into nightmares as members of
the group go missing without a sound, cell phones mysteriously vanish,
corridors turn into mazes, walls appear where doors once stood,
flashlights fail and something or someone begins toying with the group.
Days later, when five of the six friends turn up missing, the lone
survivor must go through the recovered footage in order to clear his
name and find out what happened to his friends.
Current IMDB Rating: 2.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Kevin Hicks
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Buy the DVD from CreateSpace (so you KNOW it’s good).
Synopsis: Fourteen
months after the death of his wife, Marcus Gates and his two daughters
begin experiencing strange occurrences around their home. Convinced that
it is his wife trying to communicate with him, Marcus sets out to prove
that the afterlife exists in this found-footage supernatural thriller.
Current IMDB Rating: 1.4
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Wan Hasliza
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Malaysia
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: A
team of ghost hunters investigates an old palace where the crew of a TV
series previously encountered some paranormal phenomena.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Andrey Iskanov
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: Russia
Studio/Video Label: Unearthed Films
Synopsis: The
true history of Japanese Unit 731, from its beginnings in the 1930s to
its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of
many of the Japanese doctors from Unit 731. The facts are told, and
previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to these
events, former doctor and military translator, Anatoly Protasov. Part
documentary and part feature, the story is shown from the perspective of
a young Japanese nurse who witnessed many of horrors, and a young
Japanese officer who is torn between his sincere convictions that he is
serving the greater purpose, and the deep sympathy he feels for an
imprisoned Russian girl. His life is a living hell as he's compelled to
carry out atrocious experiments on the other prisoners, using them as
guinea pigs in this shocking tale of mankind's barbarity.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Polarizing
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Anthony Spadaccini
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: R Squared Films
Synopsis: A
suicidal teenage boy is befriended by a sadistic serial killer, who
vows to set him free of his drug-addicted family. The third and most
horrifying chapter in the Head Case series, an experimental horror film that depicts a journey into an adolescent's surrealistic nightmare.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: MGM (though currently unreleased)
Synopsis: 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 47%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: MGM
snapped this up for distro years ago, but then filed for bankruptcy.
The studio is back and producing films again, though the fate of The Poughkeepsie Tapes is still unknown.
Director: Benjamin Wilkins
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: After
killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial,
Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers
that she wasn't mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real
life zombie.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Matty Beckerman
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: While driving to a campsite in the Brown Mountains of North Carolina, the Morris family's GPS malfunctions and they are lead to a remote tunnel surrounded by abandoned vehicles. The father is abducted, leaving his traumatized wife and children to flee and seek refuge in a nearby cabin. They are horrified to learn that strange lights in the nearby mountains have been linked to alien abduction and human sacrifice for centuries. When their attempts to alert the authorities are intercepted by the deadly extraterrestrial threat, the surviving members of the family find themselves under siege. A brutal and bloody attack unfolds as we witness the horror through the lens of the youngest child's video camera
Current IMDB Rating:N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Produced by Lawrence Bender (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction).
Randomness: Produced by Lawrence Bender (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction).
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Year Made: 2008
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Screen Gems
Synopsis: A
television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building
quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus that
turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 59%, Audiences – 46%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: It’s like a clone of a good movie, but dumber!
Director: Ekta Kapoor
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: India
Studio/Video Label: Balaji Telefilms
Synopsis: Out
to relax and have fun at a farmhouse while videotaping their
lovemaking, a couple experiences horror at the hands of an unknown
entity.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Sexytime!
Director: Fritz Manger
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Ais
Synopsis: Following
the discovery of the murder of two twin girls in their family's barn, a
former reality TV-star is dispatched by a TV-news station to uncover
the mystery behind their gruesome deaths.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Valeri Milev
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis:
It's been 5 years since the outbreak that wiped out 85% of the world's
population, but the war between Re-Animates (Re-Ans) and Humans wages
on. Most of the major cities are still uninhabitable. Within the few
surviving cities, the Re-Ans have been segregated into "zones" and are
policed by the R-Division of the QUASI S.W.A.T. Unit who hunt to re-kill
the Re-Ans in the hope of quelling a second outbreak.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Love that poster.
Directosr: Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: Spain
Studio/Video Label: Sony
Synopsis: A
television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark
apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something
terrifying.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 96%, Audiences – 78%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Directors: Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: Spain
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia
Synopsis:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a
dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something
terrifying.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 69%, Audiences – 59%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Randomness: There are two more films in the [REC] series in production, but both will be shot traditionally.
Director: ?
Year Made: Announced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Independent
studio Entertainment One (eOne) has joined forces with the dynamic and
innovative team of Paul WS Anderson and Jeremy Bolt to develop a new
one-hour psychological thriller series for television. In this "found
footage" series, a young documentarian searches for evidence of the
supernatural. His first case concerns the mysterious last days of two
teenagers and a serial killer, known as the Mirror Mask Killer, who uses
various forms of psychological torment to exact bloody vengeance on its
victims. “The Reel” combines supernatural shocks in a case-per-week format that leads viewers through a season-long mystery.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Danny Draven
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Full Moon Entertainment
Synopsis: Reel Evil follows struggling filmmakers Kennedy, Cory and James, who finally catch the break they are looking for when they are hired to shoot a behind-the-scenes documentary for a major studio production. But their dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when they explore the legendary haunted location and find something far worse than anything Hollywood could create. Terror becomes reality for the filmmakers as they uncover the malevolent secrets of the hospital and the sinister doctor who once ran it.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Alessio Liguori
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Italy
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis: After
a strange sighting, four friends decide to move in the near woodlands
to investigate. Soon their weekend becomes a nightmare and a race for
survival.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Brandon Landers
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Amazon DVD-on-Demand
Synopsis: Four
college students at Ohio University set out to make a documentary
proving that spirits and the paranormal are not real. In order to do
this, they plan to film their investigation of an old lunatic asylum in
Athens, OH. Their investigation proves more than they could have
anticipated.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 0%
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Three cheers for another 0% rating!
Director: Anthony Spadaccini
Year Made: 2009
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Fleet Street Films
Synopsis: This sequel to Spadaccini's 2007 horror film, Head Case,
continues the story of Claymont, Delaware serial killer Wayne
Montgomery, who films his crimes. The plot details the beginning of
Wayne's vaunting task of grooming a successor, until outside influences
threaten to destroy their sadistic relationship.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra et al.
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: ABC
Synopsis: "The River" follows the story of wildlife expert and TV personality
Emmet Cole. Emmet set course around the world with his wife, Tess, and
son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular
shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his
family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to
find him.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.8
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: J.T. Petty
Year Made: 2006
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia
Synopsis: When
cult-favorite horror filmmaker J.T. Petty ventures into the dark world
of underground horror, things don't go exactly as planned. As he begins
to examine the classic comparison between filmmaking and voyeurism
within the horror genre, he uncovers a collective of filmmakers,
deviants, and self-professed possible murderers.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 80%, Audiences – 45%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Director: Miguel Alejandro Gomez
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Costa Rica
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis:
The story of a documentary crew who visit the site of a supposedly
haunted hospital building and find exactly what they're looking for.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Tony Fox
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Digital download only
Synopsis:
In the fall of 2009, a group of college students ventured into the
backwoods of Louisiana to find an abandoned school. A place with a
history of violent deaths going back seventy years or more, before the
school was even built. For a class project, they filmed the school to
find evidence of the paranormal. To hunt for ghosts. They found what
they were looking for. And now the school in the woods is going to teach
them a lesson in fear. As the characters relationships begin to break
down, we're never really sure if it's simple human nature or if "the
school" is driving them to self-destruction with an inevitable...
Current IMDB Rating: 5.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Woo Ming Jin
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: Malaysia
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: A
group of friends unwittingly get mixed up in animist magic and
superstitions that are common in the rural parts of the country. Their
cameras capture their experiences.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Another project where the director’s name is withheld so you’ll think what you’re seeing is real.
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: Canada
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: 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.
Current IMDB Rating: 9.6 (?)
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Severed Foot…age. Get it?
Director: Kôji Shiraishi
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Japan
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis:
Horror mockumentary about a school haunted by a wish-granting ghost
that drags people off into hell if it deems their wish to be impure.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Tedi Sarafian
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: King's
Ransom Winery is one of the most haunted places in America, with a long
history of bizarre suicides. Six ghost hunters have been given the rare
opportunity to conduct a paranormal investigation. What they discover
terrifies them
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: From the writer/director of Tank Girl!
Director: Sevé Schelenz
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Sleep Apnea Productions Inc
Synopsis:
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.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: Anthony Daniel
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Dream Comet Studios
Synopsis: On June 18th, 2013, Dream Comet Studios bought a couple of used filming equipment from a local auction. The documentary footage found later on some of the cameras was truly horrifying, and very disturbing. After researching more about the event, Dream Comet Studios found much more material and edited all of the footage together to show you the truth of what really happened to the five missing college students that disappeared in the area of Spiritual Woods in May 2013.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Chris Lofing
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: 25
years after the tragic death of small town high school drama student
Charlie Grimille, four teens get locked inside the theater in which he
died. Witness the only obtained evidence from the most haunting unsolved
case in the Midwest.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Ron Bonk
Year Made: 2001
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Sub Rosa Studios
Synopsis: This tape is intended for FBI officials only. Possession by
non-authorized personnel is prohibited. Red File 66-095: Strawberry
Estates For Authorized Eyes Only In Nov. of 1999 Jonathan P. Laurel a
professor at Syracuse University in NY, lead an expedition into the
Smith Garrett Building located in Eaton, NY Three days later the
expedition disappeared without a trace The research was being documented
by an independently hired videogapher named Jason Knowles. His
recordings of the expedition, contained within, are all that remains...
Current IMDB Rating: 3.4
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Ted Nicolauo
Year Made: 2000
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: As
of June 2000, experts had documented two hundred twenty five haunted
houses in the United States. Almost half can be found... in St.
Francisville, Louisiana. Deep in the heart of the south, at the end of a
long, dark road, stands a very old house... shrouded in mystery and
veiled in secrets. When the door opens, you will be sent back by the
stench of death. On dark stormy nights, you can hear a young girl
screaming in the courtyard. You always heard the rumors, but you never
knew if they were true. Now, four strangers will spend an entire night
in that very house. What you will hear is true. What you will see is
real. What you will feel is absolute terror.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A%, Audiences – 49%
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible
Randomness: A Fangoria
interview with the director features his complete admission that he was
trying to ride the coat tails of the just-then recently released Blair Witch Project.
It’s really a shame the movie was such a misfire, because the legend of
Madame LaLaurie, on whom this movie’s mythology is based, is very
interesting, dark, and begging for a proper dramatization.
Director: J.M.R. Luna
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Inception Media Group
Synopsis: Four friends head to Vegas for a 21st birthday in hopes of finding adventure, debauchery and memories that will last them a lifetime. Cameron, the scandalous one of the group decides to record the whole trip, determined to not forget the fiasco. A girlfriend of theirs begs for a ride, convincing them she will disappear as soon as they arrive. When they get to Vegas the guys devise an amazing plan for the night, but things take a turn for the worst when they call strippers that have them travel to a remote location. Little do they know, the strippers work for an organ trafficker. The guys fight for their lives, but eventually get Stripped.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible. (Read the review.)
Directors: Lee Alliston & Scott Bates
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased on North America
Synopsis: In
February 2008 Police find several videotapes at scene of a brutal
crime. The parents of the murdered victims have given their consent to
show you… the tapes.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Just Terrible
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: André Øvredal
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Norway
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia
Synopsis: A
group of students investigate a series of mysterious bear killings, but
learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start
to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll
hunter.
Current IMDB Rating: 7.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 82%, Audiences – 72%
General Reputation: Excellent
TEOS Review/Opinion: Excellent
Randomness: An American remake has been announced…because why not? America!
Director: Carlo Ledesma
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: Australia
Studio/Video Label: House Lights Media
Synopsis: An
investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of
abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a
journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the
story is hunting them.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 54%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average – (Read the full review.)
Randomness: Was shot, completed, and released entirely for free via torrent to the Internet. A DVD release later followed.
Directors: Seth Bardin & Robert Cooley
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis:
In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a
ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their
experience on video. The film's content deals with the question, 'What
happened to the alien bodies that were recovered from the 1947 Roswell
incident?' It not only asks this question, but also answers it with
captured images that will shock and horrify the viewing audience in such
a profound way that one will need to carefully reassess their beliefs
in extraterrestrial life. This multiple-award winning feature film is a
must see for all sci-fi and horror fans as well as anyone who is on the
fence about whether or not aliens actually exist.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Director: Shaun Troke
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: A
filmmaker, his girlfriend, his female colleague, and their rich
producer are to spend a weekend making a documentary within an isolated
haunted cottage in Wales. While a developing love-triangle creates
tension between the foursome, they soon have to begin fighting for their
survival against the dangerous supernatural forces inside the
cottage...
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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General Reputation: N/A
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Director: Matty Beckerman
Year Made: Announced
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: The
movie will follow the Johnsons on a road trip to Florida where they
land in the middle of a hurricane. They decide to take cover in North
Carolina with relatives – only on the way their navigation goes wonky.
They end up in the deep backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains where
they come face to face with malevolent alien creatures. The film will be
the shocking final footage of the Johnson family vacation...
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: Producer Matty Beckerman's directorial debut (Hostel, 2003’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
Directors:
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez,
Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, & Adam
Wingard
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia
Synopsis: When
a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a
rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of
nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn't going to be as easy as
they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a
hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS
tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly
endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 77%, Audiences – N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average (First and last entries are great – the others...not.)
Randomness: The first ever found footage anthology film.
Directors: Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard, Edúardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Huw Evans, Jason Eisener
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia
Synopsis: Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into
his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes.
In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there
may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Directors: Todd Lincoln, Nacho Vigalondo, Marcel Samiento, Gregg Bishop, and Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead.
Year Made: ?
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Magnolia
Synopsis: V/H/S Viral will focus on “fame-obsessed teens who unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: Vincent Lannoo
Year Made: 2010
Country of Origin: Belgium
Studio/Video Label: IFC Films
Synopsis: Belgium's
vampire community invites a documentary crew to film one of their
families: husband, wife, and two teen children – Georges, Bertha,
Sampson, and Grace. The teens have problems: Sampson wants to sleep with
the community leader's wife (the only sexual taboo) and Grace wears
pink and wants to be human. The family eats (they keep a young woman for
snacks, and the police drop off immigrants for them), visits their
community school, chats with a coffin maker, goes to parties, and looks
down their nose at a childless vampire couple who live in their
basement. We learn of the vampire code, forced exile in Canada, and the
fate of the Sampson and Grace.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.2
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 52%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Director: Mark Nelvedine
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: A tape is leaked from the Vatican that displays an exorcism that goes horribly wrong.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
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General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: At one point, James Marsh, director of the remarkable (and real) documentary Man on Wire, was attached, which was an interesting choice. But now he's been replaced by one of the guys responsible for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which is...not.
Director: Alexander Williams
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.K. / Poland
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: We
were warned in an ancient Mayan prophecy that the 21st December 2012
would be the beginning of the end, but not how and where this new era
would unveil itself. Until now.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Welcome to the Jungle
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: Two
young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find
Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared
in 1961.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 33%
General Reputation: Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Randomness: Not sure why director Hensleigh’s feathers got ruffled when his film was described as a remake of Cannibal Holocaust…because it basically is.
Wer
Director: William Brent Bell
Year Made: In Production
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: A
defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with
the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
Randomness: From the co-writer/director of The Devil Inside.
The Whispering Dead
Director: Jeffrey Pierson
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased
Synopsis: In
2008 a cast and crew set out to shoot a pilot for a paranormal reality
show. During the first night vague apparitions became violent hauntings.
One by one they lost their lives. The Whispering Dead is a diary of the
final tortured moments of real people in an unthinkable situation.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.0
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Wicksboro Incident
Director: Richard Lowry
Year Made: 2003
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Vanguard Cinema
Synopsis: In
1953 the entire population of Wicksboro, Texas vanishes. Forty five
years later a witness comes out of hiding to tell the story.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 38%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Average
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Another search for Bigfoot. "Bleeding Cool has talked to people involved and says that this particular found-footage film mixes satire and suspense, and 'is apparently rather driven by exploring the idea of bearing witness.' The report also says that multiple characters in the film claim to have seen the mysterious beast and that their different accounts provide a source of conflict. Evidently that turns into an opportunity to make 'some observations on faith and religion.' There’s a bit more detail — the film was shot in a very short amount of time, and mostly in sequence, with some parts right where the infamous Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film was captured in California — but no real indication of play or anything else."
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Year Made: 1997
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Madacy Records
Synopsis: Experience the terror of a destructive asteroid impact firsthand in this startlingly realistic faux news broadcast. The unthinkable has happened, and it's not long before television news cameras across the globe bring images of death and destruction to the evening news. With advanced news technology that allows for the kind of extensive coverage never before possible, viewers will be riveted by this startling piece of speculative science fiction that may be a bit too realistic for more sensitive viewers.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.9
Willow Creek
Director: Bobcat GoldthwaitYear Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Another search for Bigfoot. "Bleeding Cool has talked to people involved and says that this particular found-footage film mixes satire and suspense, and 'is apparently rather driven by exploring the idea of bearing witness.' The report also says that multiple characters in the film claim to have seen the mysterious beast and that their different accounts provide a source of conflict. Evidently that turns into an opportunity to make 'some observations on faith and religion.' There’s a bit more detail — the film was shot in a very short amount of time, and mostly in sequence, with some parts right where the infamous Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film was captured in California — but no real indication of play or anything else."
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: Had it not been for Bobcat's previous two wonderful movies, I would have written this off instantly. For now I will remain cautiously intrigued.
Without Warning
Director: Robet IscoveYear Made: 1997
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Madacy Records
Synopsis: Experience the terror of a destructive asteroid impact firsthand in this startlingly realistic faux news broadcast. The unthinkable has happened, and it's not long before television news cameras across the globe bring images of death and destruction to the evening news. With advanced news technology that allows for the kind of extensive coverage never before possible, viewers will be riveted by this startling piece of speculative science fiction that may be a bit too realistic for more sensitive viewers.
Current IMDB Rating: 6.9
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 61%
General Reputation: Above Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: Above Average
Director: Christian Cisneros
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S. / Belize
Studio/Video Label: N/A
Synopsis: Mauro Bosque was an adventurer, a survivalist, but most of all he was a dreamer. Driven throughout his life by the stories told to him as a child by his grandmother, Mauro spent his days exploring some of the most dangerous places in the world and sharing those adventures on his Internet based reality show, “HOMBRE Y TIERRA”. In January of 2005 he began his greatest adventure yet, exploring the dense forests of Belize to search for a series of legendary caves which he believes were once home to a clan of historic Mayan warriors. His journey to find a way across the river leads him directly into the territory of an ancient beast who does not want Mauro encroaching his boundaries. Mauro knows something is now tracking him and as the darkness closes in around him he becomes increasingly wary of who or what is out there waiting. This is the terrifying story of a man searching for a dream, only to find his greatest nightmare.
Current IMDB Rating: N/A
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: In case it's not clear, this one's about Bigfoot.
Director: Michael Bartlett & Kevin Gates
Year Made: 2007
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: Set
in England during a worldwide viral infection, this documentary-style
frightfest records the rise of the undead from the video cameras of
several survivor groups. As each struggles against the flesh-eating
hordes, an even more horrifying fate lurks among them.
Current IMDB Rating: 4.1
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – N/A, Audiences – 23%
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Zombie Diaries 2: World of the Dead
Director: Michael Bartlett& Kevin Gates
Year Made: 2011
Country of Origin: U.K.
Studio/Video Label: The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films
Synopsis: Three
months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the
world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead.
In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge
at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and
brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received
from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in
Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers
an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving
handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to
uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them
across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead
are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious
sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a
desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human
race.
Current IMDB Rating: 3.7
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: Critics – 0%, Audiences – 20%
General Reputation: Below Average
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
The Zombinator
Director: Sergio Myers
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: U.S.
Studio/Video Label: Inception Media Group
Synopsis: While filming a documentary in a small, Ohio town, a group of college students come face to face with the undead, turning the class project into a horrific nightmare. Behind the zombie takeover is an evil corporation intent on lowering the town’s population and a mercenary working for the company, the Colonel has exposed the locals to an infectious serum. Now, their only hope of survival is the Zombinator, a former soldier-turned-zombie killer, who must protect them from the Colonel and fend off the walking dead … But can one man save them all?
Current IMDB Rating: 5.3
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: ?
TEOS Review/Opinion: Just Terrible.
?: A Question Mark
Director: Yash Dave & Allyson Patel
Year Made: 2012
Country of Origin: India
Studio/Video Label: Unreleased in North America
Synopsis: Seven friends visit a place to shoot their final year project, but never return. A few days later, their camera is found.
Current IMDB Rating: 5.6
Current Rotten Tomatoes Rating: N/A
General Reputation: N/A
TEOS Review/Opinion: N/A
If
I've missed any titles of which you are aware, shoot over an e-mail. If you're a filmmaker whose film is presented here and
you'd like The End of Summer to review, please get in touch.
Great site dude! Found heaps of pov movies here i hadn't seen! Cheers.
ReplyDeleteNice to find this list.
ReplyDeleteSome that I didn't find here:
- Afflicted (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309961/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- Banshee Chapter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011276/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- The Black Water Vampire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2853182/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- The Borderlands (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2781832/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- Devil's Due (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2752758/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- Devil's Pass (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905040/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- Dominium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3247678/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- Europa Report (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- The Jungle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2444092/?ref_=rvi_tt)
- The Possession of Michael King (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2282016/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
- Sxtape (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2041331/?ref_=kw_li_tt)
Superb site!
ReplyDeleteI love found footage movies and always wanted to build list/resources in 1 place.
Your list is excellent starting point to do this.
I'm sure I've seen some movies which is not listed here, but currently I cannot remember anything besides this:
The Atticus Institute (2015) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280916/
^ saw it already and it was good!
If/when I will remember/find stuff I've seen and not listed here, I will make another comment here.
Regards,
CR-95,
from Latvia
Thank you for taking the time to comment. This list is woefully out of date - I honestly couldn't keep up with all the announcements of found footage films anymore. Thanks for the tip on The Atticus Institute, but you're about two days too late - I pre-ordered it over the weekend!
DeleteThanks for reply. Hmm, maybe you could at least put only short entries about new movies then (only title and perhaps imdb link)? That would greatly help me to find them.
DeleteActually I didn't even know SO much found footage films exists. Now I'm trying to find those I havent seen already (based on this list) and watching like 1-2 films per day.
I totally understand time consuming nature of things like this. Since I am sort of movie fanatic myself and I do have vast collection of various films my dream is to create my personal semi-private database of all stuff I have. But its only a dream. I totally dont have time to do it now :(
Regards,
CR-95
from Latvia
I wouldn't go too crazy in trying to hunt all of them down. Many of them have nothing more than Facebook pages, which leads me to believe they are ideas or concepts for films that never took off for whatever reasons - probably lack of financing.
DeleteFantastic list! I thought I'd watched them all until coming across this list of lesser known FF.
ReplyDelete