In the internet age, urban legends like Slenderman and the Backrooms speak to larger cultural fears, while ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) and creepypastas encourage a communal sort of lore-building.

Screengrab of “True Haunting” on Netflix. The docuseries contains reenactments of hauntings that interviewees describe. Photo courtesy of @halo_post_production on Instagram If you’re looking for ...

Valerie Veatch’s blistering “Ghost in the Machine” is a radical, necessary Molotov cocktail of a documentary that’s being thrown right into the heart of our nonsense, nightmarish world of overinflated ...

The famous 1970s British haunting that inspired horror blockbuster The Conjuring 2 gets a four-part series that uses the actual audio recordings made on the scene—lip-synced by actors on a ...

To be fair, Herzog turns every movie he makes into a rumination on dreams.

Though I don’t want to call Werner Herzog a nature documentarian, the acclaimed and highly influential filmmaker has crafted what I consider some of the most transformative and evocative nature films ...

The scene at this year's Sundance Film Festival Getty Images When the Oscar nominations were announced last week there was much to celebrate for the Sundance Film Festival documentary programmers. The ...

ABINGDON, Va. – The documentary “Some Say This Place is Haunted,” by director Jerry Sword, will not open in Abingdon tonight. The documentary was slated to show twice at the Abingdon Cinemall, at 7 ...

Miranda Adama is a writer, variety streamer, and all-around creative who loves violence on screen and what it says about pop culture. She's the host of Be Seeing You: A John Wick Podcast and has been ...

Meanwhile, The Devil on Trial explores the bizarre case that inspired the third Conjuring movie, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, in which a man tried to use “I was possessed” as a legal ...