In July of 2019 Jarno Mahlberg attended to Kino Euphoria Helsinki International Kino Kabaret. The following experience is assembled from his iPhone videos found after the first session.
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This is the first horror documentary that examines haunted places famous on the Internet and by word of mouth. A young female reporter is dispatched to famous haunted places such as the "Hanging Tree," where hangings are repeated, and a hiking trail where a woman in a one-piece dress appears, to physically verify their authenticity.
This is the second horror documentary that examines haunted spots famous on the Internet and by word of mouth. Female reporters are sent to absolutely dangerous spots to verify their authenticity, such as a forest park where all the staff clearly experienced hauntings, and a staircase in a museum where a woman's spirit sits all year round.
This is the third horror documentary that examines haunted spots famous on the Internet and by word of mouth. Reporters are dispatched to spots that are said to be "dangerous," such as a place in the mountains where suicides never cease, a certain dam without a single light, and the most terrifying place of execution in the Kansai region, to verify their authenticity.
This is the fourth horror documentary that examines haunted spots famous on the Internet and by word of mouth. Reporters are dispatched to spots that are said to be "dangerous," such as a famous suicide spot on a precipitous cliff in Wakayama Prefecture and a hotel where people who stay overnight almost always experience unexplained phenomena, to verify their authenticity.
This is the fifth horror documentary that examines haunted spots famous on the Internet and by word of mouth. Reporters are dispatched to spots that are said to be "unsavory," such as Otsuka Danchi in Shiga Prefecture, which is now in ruins, and Shigai no Mori, which is said to have once been a place of execution, to verify their authenticity.
Jimmy Duncan is a film director working on his fourth film but things are not exactly going as planned.
A couple are given a camera and a set of instructions which they must follow or else someone will die.
YouTuber Tomoki Uchikawa, along with his friends Hinako, Souta, and Nanae, head to the former Ishio Village, where there are rumors of people being spirited away, to film a video investigating urban legends. However, their whereabouts remain unknown, and the police discover the rental car they had rented near a tunnel on the outskirts of the village. The video cameras left behind there show shocking images of locked houses, children in armed uniforms, imprisoned adults, and adults being infected by a strange disease, a rotten demon, that occurs on the night of a new moon.
Recovering from the trauma of being kidnapped last Halloween by the Blue Skeleton - a group who take "extreme haunt" to another level - five friends decide they must face their fears in order to move on. Heading back out on the road to visit more haunted house attractions, signs of the Blue Skeleton start appearing again and a new terror begins.
A film archivist revisits the story of Rustin Parr, a hermit thought to have murdered seven children while under the possession of the Blair Witch.
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…
A serial killer trains a protégé until outside forces threaten to break up their sadistic relationship.
A woman gets stuck in a Red Lobster commercial, in Robin Comisar’s horror-comedy that won Best Short at the Overlook Film Festival.
Five petty criminals plan to kidnap a rich girl.
In this found footage comedy, two brothers go on an adventure to find the urban legend known as "Man Chicken." The trip takes a turn for the worst, as the truth begins to reveal itself, the deeper they travel into the forest.
A vlogger's latest upload of her carving a pumpkin for the first time leads to her being carved herself.
The ancient and mysterious Shennongjia has been rumored for a long time that savages appeared and there were more than two hundred witnesses. Eight documentary filmmakers walked into this "virgin land" to find the legendary wild man. The bizarre disappearances and deaths of the members of the expedition give people reason to believe that this area is indeed filled with an unpredictable force.
About a horror filmmaker who embarks on making the ultimate snuff movie. He arms himself with a camera and goes on a killing rampage - no one can stop him.
A strange DVD brought in from a man claiming to be a freelance director.
In December 1995, a four-man team from the public-access program, "Fact or Fiction", braved the New Jersey's desolate Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of the legendary Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. It took the jury ninety minutes to sentence the lone survivor to life in prison. One year later, a filmmaker decides to mount his own investigation...
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
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.
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
When teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders lost without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end, who's really hunting whom?
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.
In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
