Movies like The Dark Area

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The Dark Area (2000)
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The Dark Area (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Five friends get lost in the woods. Soon one by one gets killed by a mysterious person...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, slasher, independent film
Plot: found footage, murder, woods, teenager, forest, night, lost in the woods, mass hysteria, screaming, camera, handheld camera, in the woods, video camera

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Most similar movies to The Dark Area

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary and scary films with plots about found footage, camera, forest, woods, murder, danger and violence mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Dark Area: Trhauma (1980), Tape_13 (2014), The Ghost from Hovrino (2012), Evil Things (2009), Secret of Slenderman 3 (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Trhauma (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
Style: slasher
Plot: serial killer, erotica, woods, murder, house, abrupt ending, killing an animal, necrophilia, murder mystery, villa, lego, female nudity ...
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100%
 3.4
 297
Tape_13 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Young lovers Ann and Gero are travelling through Europe when their car breaks down in the Eifel mountains. Vinzent and Franz invite them to spend a carefree weekend partying in a remote holiday cabin. But after a playful ‘séance’ their initial ...
Style: slasher
Plot: found footage, paranormal phenomena, forest, night, travel, young lovers, ouija, ouija board, multiculturalism, lost, camera, handheld camera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Ghost from Hovrino (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: November 11, 2011 -- four men with a video camera went to Hovrino's forest to make a movie about a ghost. Kirill Alex -- 1981 year of birth. Roman Mirniy -- 1981 year of birth. Anton Vaganov -- 1981 year of birth. Artem Varanov -- 1990 year ...
Style: enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, forest, supernatural, on the road, no survivors, friendship between men, ghost, excavation, four friends, occult, evil being, handgun ...
Time: year 2011
Place: russia
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33%
 4.2
 2K
Evil Things (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 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: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, stalking, danger, woods, missing person, murder, violence, group of friends, survival, trap, fear, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Secret of Slenderman 3 (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 64 min.
Story: As the protagonist is haunted by nightmares caused by the events of first two movies, he decides to kill Slender Man to end the nightmare once and for all.
Style: experimental, underground film, mockumentary, independent film, amateur film
Plot: found footage, amateur, forest, nightmare, urban legend, woods
Time: year 2016
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.5
 48
Raakavedos (2016)
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, suspense, bleak, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, dark secret, investigation, revelation, abandoned building, danger, evil, secret, mysterious man, mystery killer, night, basement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.0
 5K
Atrocious (2010)
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: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, danger, murder, family vacation, country house, investigation, urban legend, ghost, haunted by the past, amateur detective, dark past ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.9
 422
Bodom (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 65 min.
Story: For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.
Style: serious, scary, surprise ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, stalking, danger, friends, twists and turns, woods, unsolved mystery, abandoned house, cabin in the woods, lake, deadly, cabin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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June 9 (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, rough, depressing ...
Plot: found footage, prank, rebellious youth, terror, stalker, fear, urban legend, ritual, creepy kid, high school, clown, gypsy ...
Time: 20th century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
School of Horror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Aspiring filmmaker Rocky Horror (Robert Baldassari) devises a dangerous plan to create a surefire terror hit when he lures several film school classmates to a haunted tavern, hoping to capture footage of them being attacked by a legendary monster. ...
Style: suspense, independent film, surprise ending
Plot: murder, found footage, cannibal, blood, tavern, film school, gore
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.6
 55
Unaired (2010)
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, paranormal, group of friends, danger, paranormal phenomena, evil being, blood, violence, murder, investigation, night ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Hunting the Legend (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 2008, a deer hunter was taken by something in the Alabama woods. Only his rifle, blood and a 16" footprint were left behind... Five years later, his son seeks revenge.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: bigfoot, found footage, woods, vengeance, danger, dangerous animal, legends and myths, sasquatch, murder, creature, monster, death of father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 2.2
 617
Cannibal Diner (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A group of models find themselves trapped in a factory inhabited by a cannibalistic degenerated family.
Style: slasher, bleak, rough, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: cannibalism, monster, woods, backwoods, cannibal, youth, danger, gory, best friend, factory, serial killer, fashion model ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.0
 49K
Blair Witch (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: found footage, supernatural, forest, lost in the woods, witch, woods, fear, chase, death, runaway, camping, friendship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.6
 1K
Apocalyptic (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
Style: mockumentary, dark, suspense, suspenseful, scary
Plot: found footage, fear, danger, evil, murder, violence, death, forest, fright, panic, investigation, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.2
 21K
The Gallows (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.
Style: slasher, suspense, dark, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, found footage, supernatural, dead teenager, murder, youth, violence, revenge, haunted house, tragedy, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: year 1993, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Secret of Slenderman (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 64 min.
Story: After their bus broke down two friends, Sergey and Oksana, go into the woods, where they plan to reside in the cabin of Sergey's friend. Suddenly a monster starts to haunt them. A monster, which goes by the name of Slender Man...
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, creepypasta ...
Plot: found footage, monster, ghost, missing person, road trip, uncover truth, tourist, police, house, woods, haunting, urban legend ...
Time: year 2013
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Found Footage (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
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: psychotronic, dark, bleak, scary, independent film ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural power, missing person, danger, supernatural, ghost, violence, fear, evil, darkness, forest, panic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Burningmoore Incident (2010)
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, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: found footage, murder, house, investigation, police detective, sadism, brutality, basement, serial killer, killing, homicide, obscurity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Madison County (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, woods, uncover truth, danger, redneck, masked killer, murder, violence, animal mask, pig killer, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Severed Footage (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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.
Style: dark, disturbing, scary
Plot: found footage, mystery killer, darkness, panic, investigation, risk, violence, running, student, escape attempt, twists and turns, woods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012)
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, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, murder, investigation, violence, haunted house, darkness, blood, fear, death, research, corpse ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Death Cast (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Six young and hopeful actors land roles in an experimental horror film shooting on a remote location. Their performances will be captured without any crew present in a single, uninterrupted take by cameras and drones positioned around the set. As ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, forest, murder, homicidal maniac, masked killer, actor, murderer, killings, fame, star
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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A Night in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, road movie ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, woods, danger, survival, camping, supernatural, death, panic, legend, night, twists and turns, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
8213: Gacy House (2010)
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, serial killer, ghost, supernatural, danger, investigation, haunted house, frame up, murder, paranormal activity, killer clown, spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
They're Watching (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.
Style: scary, horror comedy, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: found footage, witch, murder, home renovation, painting, funeral, night, american abroad, killing an animal, solitude, coven, witchcraft ...
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Haunted Hospital: Heilstatten (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Group of Youtubers enter an abandoned surgery ward for 24-hour challenge, hoping to go viral. They will soon learn that they're not welcome.
Style: bleak, suspense, scary, rough, splatter ...
Plot: found footage, abandoned hospital, abandoned building, paranormal activity, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, survival, survival horror, group of friends, trap, trapped, human experiment, deathtrap ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a ...
Style: mockumentary, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, bigfoot, woods, sasquatch, evil, deadly creature, danger, survival, supernatural, legends and myths, imaginary, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.9
 2K
Crowsnest (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot: found footage, on the road, murder, survival, isolation, buddies, confined, danger, friendship, wilderness, cannibalism, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Last Broadcast (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect ...
Style: mockumentary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, danger, murder, forest, uncover truth, supernatural, amateur detective, ghost, obsessive quest, satellite, psycho, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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