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Hidden deep within the dense forests of Northern Ireland lies a realm of mystery and terror. Glenarma’s tangled maze of twisting paths and shadowy trees conceals dangers that would test even the bravest souls. It is here that five college students and two teachers vanished one fateful spring, captured forever on video that would later shock the world.

On a bright March day in 2020, film student Jimmy set out to document the daily life of his friend Gordy. But little did they know that following their lecturers into Glenarma’s dark depths would lead them into a nightmare beyond imagining. Along with friends Eleanor and Clare, the group ventured into the woods, seeking laughter and adventure. Instead, they found horrors that still haunt the night. Masked figures lurked amid the trees, and rituals unspeakable corrupted the forest glades.

Piecing together the recovered footage, authorities sought to solve the mystery...

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For his debut film, Night Shoot, writer/director/actor Taylor Katsanis mixes things up a little by taking a plot that dates back to the original found footage film Cannibal Holocaust, a group of filmmakers finds they’ve gotten themselves into a situation they may not be able to get out of, and filming it conventionally. With found footage still making good use of the plot in films like The Glenarma Tapes, can Night Shoot compete?

Park Ranger Howard is flipping through the radio stations on his way to work. He probably should have stopped and listened to the newscaster talking about the mass escape of psychiatric patients from a local institution. Instead, he and the two rangers sent to look for...

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There’s been a lot of good found-footage films coming out recently, such as Tahoe Joe 2 and Woods Witch. Now there’s The Glenarma Tapes, an Irish film that begins by telling us that seven people went missing in the woods around Glenarma one night in 2020. One was later found near death and in a coma. Two years later, the police found the footage we’re about to see…

The footage starts innocently enough, as we watch Gordy (Warren McCook; Hope Street) go through his day as a student at Mid Ulster College of Art. His friend Jimmy is making a day-in-the-life type film for his class project. He’s certainly an interesting subject, going from making insightful comments about Romeo and Juliet to...

A group of teens wander into the woods, never to be found again in Irish found footage freakout The Glenarma Tapes. A new trailer teases some of the horrors ahead for the ill-fated bunch.

Dark Sky Films releases The Glenarma Tapes on VOD and Digital on April 2, 2024.

Watch the new trailer below.

The film’s official synopsis: “In Spring 2020 five students and two faculty members from the Mid Ulster College of Art went missing in a forest on the north coast of Ireland. What happened on the day they disappeared has remained a mystery – until now. Over two years after the disappearance, a police operation on a house outside Belfast uncovered footage of the students’ final movements, as their journey into the forest saw them bear witness to something they should never have seen. The Glenarma Tapes present that footage to the public for the first time.”

The found footage horror movie stars Warren McCook,...

"You don't know what you're dealing with." Dark Sky Films has debuted the official US trailer for an indie horror film titled The Glenarma Tapes, a found footage horror mystery. Obviously paying tribute to and following in the footsteps of The Blair Witch Project, this is also about a group of people who go into a forest and end up missing. In Spring 2020 when five students and two faculty from the Mid Ulster College of Art go missing in a forest on the north coast of Ireland. What happened on the day when they disappeared has remained a mystery - until now. The main cast includes Warren McCook, Sophie Hill, Ryan Early, and Emily Lamey. This first premiered at FrightFest London in the UK last year, and will be out on VOD in the US this spring. Some kind of crazy violent cult hiding out in this dark forest, it looks like?...

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It’s Halloween night in 1998, TV veteran Gerry Burns and children’s TV presenter Michelle Kelly along with radio DJ Declan broadcasting live from the attic of an allegedly haunted house. They’re joined by the home’s owner Sarah, her daughter Rose,...