The Hat Man: Documented Cases of Pure Evil

For a "Documentary" it's definitely one sided. There isn't more than a couple of minutes given to the argument of sleep paralysis and hallucinations.

The audio is absolutely terrible. Constantly needed to adjust the volume throughout. Also, have my eyes really failed me at 35? The subtitles were minuscule!

I think the sickly icing on the cake was the last woman describing her experiences. Just really forced.

Give this a huge miss and watch 'The Nightmare'

A better choice for looking into "Shadow People" or "Hat Men"

I was born in 1975. Long before IMDB, Youtube, Facebook, the internet, or cable television. I've been seeing this thing since I was a child. It would on rare occasion come to me in the middle of the night and stand in my bedroom doorway. It was a darker than the darkness figure of what looked like a huge man in a trenchcoat or cloak with a hood or hat.

I was always scared damn near to death from it's presence. But on the rare occasion that I would see it, it would always just stand there in my doorway. I would literally be paralyzed with fear. I couldn't move, speak and it would feel like I couldn't breathe and felt like it was going to kill me or waiting for me to die.

When I got my first apartment it moved with me. I'd wake up, paralyzed it be standing there in the doorway. There was nothing I could do, but seeing it was terrifying.

It still comes but I choose not to look. I rearranged my bedroom so I can't see the door from my bed. But I can still feel it when it's there, I still wake up paralyzed and afraid, still helpless to do anything about it.

I don't know what it wants or what it means. It never occured to me that someone else might have seen that thing. I never talked about it until social media. I watched this religious fantasy series on Netflix and a lady had one come to her in the night on the show and I was flabergasted because I didn't know it was an actually phenomenon people all over the world have experienced and there was a name for it. I started googling what I'd see and then all this information came back and I was just blown away. Then I found this documentary and some of the images from other people's account of seeing the same phenomenon.

They call it the "Hat Man" I've researched it further it's actually called a Jinn from ancient times. It always appears in my doorway and it just stands there. It's huge, it fills the doorway it's a dark sillhouette of a man with what sort of looks like a trench coat or cloak and something resembling the shape of a hat. But it looks like something in the darkness that's darker than darkness in the form of a man. I've never seen it waking up during the day always in the middle of the night.

-1 Star for near the end the woman who basically described a scene straight from the Twilight Zone episode 'The Hitchhiker'...

It says it's a documentary but it just seemed contrived to me. It didn't seem very real.

I didn't find a lot of the photo evidence very convincing.

-1 Star for Failing to convince me.

They never mention Ingrid Cold. Just a poor rehash of the same old stuff, whether it be hat man, slender man, the Boogeyman, babadook, or any other of the shadow people they can all be traced back to Ingrid Cold, the original grinning man of West Virginia. I watched this hoping for an original take on an old legend but honestly it was just unbelievable. The supposed eyewitnesses are laughable in their unbelievability. One of the photos is obviously the folds of the guys hoody. The actress claiming she developed red marks on her arms while discussing the hat man is so full of it her breath probably stinks. The filmmakers should make a sacrifice in apology to Ingrid Cold. Only blood will do.

"The Hat Man" documentary is a superbly made movie that presents the shared phenomena of the mysterious entity in a riveting, and spine chilling, way.

A mix of interviews, movie clips, recreations, art and photographs is used to present the material in a captivating manner.

I was genuinely spooked as the end credits rolled. Director Kyle J. Macias has made a memorable film and turned a light on a global mystery.

9 out of 10. I may sleep with the light on, tonight.