20 Scariest Horror Movies Of The 2020s (So Far)

4. Strange Harvest

Mockumentaries are incredibly difficult to make scary because, with audiences being as media-savvy as they are nowadays, most of them simply lack internal plausibility - there are too many telltale signs we're watching something fake, causing us to be unconsciously pulled out of the film's world.

But 2024's Strange Harvest is an extremely well-wrought faux-doc about the hunt for a serial killer by the name of Mr. Shiny, and it's clear from early on that filmmaker Stuart Ortiz has extensively studied the stylistic tropes of modern true crime docs.

From moment to moment what we're seeing feels staggeringly real, even though we know it isn't, due to both the film's technical construction and the plausibility of its performances.

Couple this with a genuinely transfixing serial killer hunt and a number of bewilderingly queasy sequences, and you've got the recipe for what's probably the single best horror mockumentary since the legendary Lake Mungo. Believe the hype.