10 Best Horror Movies Told In Real Time

10. All Hallow’s Eve

Released in 2013, Frankenstein Vs The Mummy director Damian Leone’s nasty 2013 anthology horror All Hallow's Eve garnered the director enough notice in the indie horror community to spawn a spin-off, the gruesome 2016 slasher pastiche Terrifier.

Where that later, darker flick doesn't quite manage to fit its story into real time (though it does come close), All Hallow's Eve does indeed take place in real time thanks to a nifty framing device featuring an ill-fated babysitter watching each short as a tattered VHS.

When the poor teen comes across a set of battered old cassette tapes she does what any responsible guardian would and begins watching them in the company of the the children in her care despite having no idea what the tapes contain. The majority of this uneven but scrappy flick's action is taken up by the contents of these tapes, spooky snuff films which may or may not be repurposed short films from Leone's back catalogue.

With the babysitter's exploits book-ending this film's narrative action, this one takes place over the course of a tight (less than ninety) minutes, and unlike its genuinely creepy antagonist, Leone's film doesn't outstay its welcome.