9 horror documentaries with disturbing themes that you must see.

This compilation of non-fiction works has stories that make your hair stand on end.

It is well known that reality often surpasses fiction, and this is also true in the case of audiovisual works based on the oldest emotion of all: fear.

Just as in the best horror stories, what we should fear is suggested rather than directly taught, the power of horror documentaries and documentaries with unsettling themes is to intuit that somewhere in the world something has happened or is happening that we would only want to approach from the other side of the screen.

The most interesting horror documentaries

Below you will find a selection with several of the most remarkable documentaries of fearworks that cause terror and often do so unintentionally.

1. The Japanese Cannibal (2007)

This documentary tells the story of Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man obsessed with Western women who in the early 1980s, after being rejected by a student of Dutch origin, shot his victim to death, dismembered her and ate various parts of her body. This, which is already creepy in itself, is made worse by the fact that Sagawa was freed from going to prison due to a loophole in the law. Today, he is still at large and openly admits that he is seduced by the idea of eating human flesh.

2. Cropsey (2009)

Documentary about one of the creepiest legends in recent U.S. history. It all started with a legend that the inhabitants of Staten Island created so that children would not go out on the street alone. In this context, someone decided to decided to turn the horror story into realityand small children began to disappear. It is a case of self-fulfilling prophecy with a fatal outcome.

The nightmare (2015)

This documentary is horror not because it explains a specific story, but because the phenomenon it describes makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. It is about sleep paralysis, a disturbance that sometimes occurs and consists of staying in a limbo between nightmare and reality, neither sleeping nor fully awake.

People who experience sleep paralysis if they are immobile, unable to do anything but move their eyes, and often suffer hallucinations that are truly frightening.

4. The Children of Anger (1990)

It is a documentary that shows an example of the extent to which the traumatic experiences lived in childhood can make us think in an aberrant way. It talks about the case of Beth, who transcended to the media as "the psychopathic girl" for wanting to kill her family and even do it to several animals for wanting to kill her family and going so far as to do it to several animals because of a precedent of sexual abuse.

On the other hand, today Beth is a totally rehabilitated woman, which shows that in many occasions the deepest psychological problems can disappear due to the influence of learning.

5. The impostor (2012)

A 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace and, after years and months of searching, they manage to find him and bring him back into their lives. However, something very disturbing happens when the adults in the house realize that their son's habits have changed so much that they question his identity.

6. The bridgewater triangle (2013)

We know that neither ghosts nor monstrous animals with mythical roots really exist, but that doesn't mean we can't get lost in the horror stories they leave in their wake. And the mystery of nature and disturbing territories, added to suggestion, do a lot. In this documentary we talk about a territory in the Massachusetts area that is famous for the amount of the number of sightings of strange creatures that take place there. that take place there.

7. Room 237 (2012)

There are many theories around the movie The Shiningand this one deals with those that have to do with the most iconic room in the hotel: room 237.

8. Beware Slenderman (2016).

One of the most notorious crime documentaries of those produced by HBO.. It deals with a true story related to mental disorders in childhood, and the way in which certain delusions can lead to killing. In this case, the way in which the crime is conveyed has to do with the legend of Slenderman, a creature with the appearance of a faceless man with long arms and legs.

9. The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2010)

In the late 1960s, residents of several Virginia towns began to be frightened by several sightings of a giant moth-like creature that came out at dusk or at night. The stories about the "mothman" only stopped after an accident caused one of the large bridges in the area to collapse.