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The Dark Tapes (2016)
4K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Style:
dark, anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, mockumentary, cyber, cerebral, dark fairy tale ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal, ghost, paranormal activity, evil force, experiment, panic, brutality, danger, peril, demon, food, eye, cruelty, dark secret, investigation, violence, death, murder, evil, fear, darkness, fright, evil being, killing ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s
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Most similar movies to The Dark Tapes
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, mockumentary, suspenseful and scary films with plots about found footage, camera, fright, fear, talking to the camera, looking at the camera and panic mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Dark Tapes: Hell House LLC (2015), The Entity (2015), The Amityville Haunting (2011), Evil Things (2009), Phoenix Forgotten (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Style:
dark, spooky, mockumentary, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, halloween, dark secret, supernatural, mysterious death, abandoned hotel, basement, hanging, investigation, tragic event, night ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Peru
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
THE RING goes ‘found footage’ Peruvian in a terrific example of the continually igniting South American new horror wave. A group of media students embark on a documentary project covering ‘Reaction Videos’ - filming people watching intense ...
Style:
dark, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, crying ...
Plot:
found footage, danger, supernatural power, dark secret, tragic event, death, creature, killing, evil, curse, ghost, scared ...
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in ...
Style:
mockumentary, dark, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, paranormal activity, violence, investigation, murder, evil, research, corpse, darkness, blood, fear ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This movie is a 'found-footage' film about the Benson family who move in to the infamous house where the DeFeo family were murdered in the 1970s over 30 years earlier. Things start happening to anyone who visits this house, and whoever ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, dark, mockbuster ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, mysterious death, danger, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, violence, ghost, paranormal activity, family in danger, supernatural, husband wife relationship, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by ...
Style:
serious, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, woods, stalking, missing person, danger, violence, murder, group of friends, trap, loss of control, fear, mysterious death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Style:
disturbing, dark, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, ufo, alien abduction, fear, alien, dark secret, desperation, missing person, friendship, food, investigation, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 2017, year 1997
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story of a reality T.V. crew of paranormal researchers who journey to Colorado's San Luis Valley in order to investigate the unexplained phenomena of cattle mutilations. Over the course of their three day investigation they find much more ...
Style:
psychotronic, dark, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, alien, survival horror, fear, danger, friend, death, murder, violence, investigation, group of friends, obscurity ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A local reporter and her assembled TV crew go into a school haunted by a horrific past. The team spends the night locked inside the building, capturing any and everything they find.
Style:
dark, psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, secret, reporter, investigation, evil spirit, danger, dark secret, supernatural power, fear ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
S.P.I is entering its third season as the most watched Paranormal Hunting program with its Halloween premiere. The team is investigating a haunted garage/basement on secluded property and prepping to create some soaring ratings with scary content. ...
Style:
dark, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, fear, danger, group of friends, paranormal, evil being, paranormal phenomena, killing, blood, murder, violence, investigation ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to ...
Style:
mockumentary, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, serial killer, supernatural, haunted house, investigation, danger, paranormal activity, killer clown, frame up, murder, darkness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Twenty-three year old, Thomas Finley was arrested for the murder of his nineteen-year old sister, Samantha, as well as the murder of fifty-two year old, Edgar Lauren, a Professor and paranormal investigator.In the early morning hours, Police were ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, dark ...
Plot:
found footage, ghost, paranormal, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, evil, paranormal activity, supernatural power, murder, psychic, woman in danger, supernatural horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The cameras filming a TV pilot capture the brutal killings of a home renovation crew.
Style:
dark, rough, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, murder, house, investigation, police detective, brutality, sadism, basement, killing, serial killer, obscurity, death ...
Similarity:
45%
939
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two skeptic researchers investigate a mother's claim that an unknown presence may be trying to communicate with her 7-year-old daughter.
Style:
dark, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, evil, paranormal phenomena, investigation, danger, paranormal activity, ghost, fear, girl, house, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
A group of students decide to base their media assignment on a local railway museum myth. However, when they trespass the premises after hours, they soon learn that some myths are more than stories.
Style:
dark, psychotronic, disturbing, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
found footage, paranormal, evil spirit, museum, ghost, paranormal phenomena, killing, friend, murder, evil force, evil, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
45%
554
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two men went searching for ghosts, but they found themselves instead...
Style:
dark, light, scary, bleak, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, time travel, investigation, danger, time traveler, alternate reality, weapons, back in time, dog, panic, murder, violence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
My name is Rebecca. When I left for college my ex John thought web cams would help us keep in touch. It does however it also leads us to a dark secret when we meet and cam with Vera Madeline, an on-line psychic, who initiates a deadly reign of ...
Style:
suspense, dark, enigmatic, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, occult, dark secret, ghost, investigation, dark past, violence, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, halloween, secret ...
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
Style:
dark, mockumentary, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, forest, danger, evil, fear, murder, violence, investigation, blood, panic, death, apocalypse ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In March 1963, a black mass was held at a ruined church in Clophill, Bedfordshire by a coven of dark witches. Tombs were looted, animals sacrificed and human bones arranged during a macabre ceremony. Further defilements continued at Clophill in the ...
Style:
dark, scary, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
found footage, witch, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, danger, mysterious death, paranormal activity, church, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, escapades, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.
Style:
bleak, suspense, suspenseful, light, spooky ...
Plot:
disappearance, found footage, peril, danger, unconsciousness, risk, confusion, cruelty, evil alien, alien invasion, jeopardy, woods ...
Similarity:
43%
17K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Six eager students strike out to explore and record live footage of supernatural activity at an abandoned plantation, but one unsettled spirit gives them more than they asked for.
Style:
mockumentary, dark, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, travel, ghost, woods, forest, student, fear, scared, panic, paranormal activity, supernatural, haunting ...
Similarity:
41%
616K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot:
ufo, mysterious disappearance, deadly creature, missing person, found footage, farm, ghost child, investigation, danger, paranormal phenomena, alien monster, food ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. ...
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, creepy ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, amateur detective, danger, murder, family vacation, country house, investigation, urban legend, ghost, haunted by the past, holiday horror ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic ...
Style:
mockumentary, suspenseful, demonic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, possession, possessed girl, demonic possession, kids in trouble, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, intervention, hopes, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
A film maker travels to explore an abandoned secluded youth home "Pohjola Manor" located in Northern Finland surrounded by ghost stories.
Style:
dark, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, dark secret, investigation, danger, evil, abandoned building, revelation, mysterious man, mystery killer, secret, night, violence ...
Similarity:
40%
19K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Style:
scary, tense, serious, satanic, frightening ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
found footage, curse, occult, demon, investigation, slow burn, folklore, fear, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, journalist, danger ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Story:
The contents of a memory card are presented in the exact order in which they were found. Beginning with a simple camping trip and ending in a bloodbath years later, the mystery of these video clips have never been solved.
Style:
dark, psychotronic, bleak, scary, independent film ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, supernatural power, fear, violence, ghost, supernatural, danger, evil, darkness, camping, friend ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young couple accept an offer for $2 million to stay in a haunted house for a week. Based on real footage and events.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, found footage, fear, husband wife relationship, married couple, ghost, paranormal activity, panic, house, danger, darkness, paranormal ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, fear, paranormal activity, panic, ghost, found footage, demon, supernatural horror, evil force, demonic possession, couples ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
america, los angeles, california, usa, san diego california
Similarity:
40%
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