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When it comes to the supernatural, a one-on-one experience is the only way to convince someone that something is real. We’ve all grown up watching movies where evil spirits haunt a family and while most of us would like to believe that they are fantasies, it is pretty real for the one’s experiencing it. Thus, what Shanon Alexander does with his documentary “It’s Coming” is something truly audacious. Much like his previous effort, he puts himself in on the experience, allowing us to follow along. The result is an occasionally unnerving tête-à-tête with the supernatural.

Choosing New York City as his focal point again; possibly because he is more comfortable filming and finding stories that he is somehow a part of, Alexander’s “It’s Coming” came to existence when he traced one of the legit cases out of the many requests for exorcism that local churches used to get.

Directed by Stuart Stone, “Don’t F**k with Ghosts” follows Stuart Stone and Adam Rodness, a filmmaking duo commissioned to work on a movie about ghosts. In the film, the duo plays fictional versions of themselves, who initially try to get their pitch about the Bigfoot creature commissioned. Not long ago, the Zellner brothers brought up “Sasquatch Sunset,” about the same subject. While this Sundance release uses a fictional narrative about Bigfoot, Stone & Rodness (their versions) wants to make an explorative documentary about these believed-to-be-real creatures. Their financiers don’t see potential in this pitch. So, instead, they want the duo to make a movie about ghosts.

With Halloween being a major festival, not just for religious but capitalistic reasons, it’s not a surprising expectation for investors to put their money on the safest, potentially lucrative bet. I mean, who will watch another movie about the Sasquatch, right? People may...

Don’t F**k With Ghosts. It’s the #1 rule every ghost hunter knows, and the first rule every ghost hunter breaks. In the painfully delightfully Canadian mockumentary Don’t F**k With Ghosts, filmmakers Stuart Stone and Adam Rodness (playing fictional versions of themselves) set out to find indisputable proof of the existence of the ghosts. Their quest takes them out of their comfort zone, and out of the Toronto film industry. To get this project off the ground, and to embed themselves in an environment that fosters ghostly activity, Stu and Adam are forced to travel to a cold, unforgiving land of pain and suffering…..Winnipeg, Manitoba...