Official poster for the horror mockumentary Strange Harvest Occult Murder in the Inland Empire
TRUE-CRIME FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR MOCKUMENTARY
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STRANGE HARVEST

A routine welfare check leads to a gruesome discovery — and the return of a killer thought gone forever.

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About

A routine welfare check in the San Bernardino suburbs leads to a gruesome discovery — a family of three has been bound, bled and posed below a strange symbol written in blood on the ceiling. Detective Joe Kirby and Lexi Taylor recognize the symbol as the calling card of a killer from 15 years earlier who has seemingly returned to continue his murder spree.

It's not long before "Mr. Shiny" begins leaving horrifying new crime scenes in his wake; one victim is trapped in a swimming pool with live leeches while another is ritualistically flayed and displayed in a public park.

It soon becomes evident the case is anything but routine and that the murders, and their perpetrator, may be part of some sinister, otherworldly agenda involving cosmic phenomena and evil forces from beyond.

Some mysteries don't get solved. They just get stranger the longer you look at them.

Detective Joe Kirby
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Strange Harvest (DVD)

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Press & Mentions

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"Ignore the film’s marketing, which seems intent on positioning it as a run-of-the-mill masked maniac movie; this is a fascinating and neatly realised horror riff on the 2020s’ most popular genre."

The Guardian / Catherine Bray

"It’s a grisly piece of work — drawing at least minor inspiration from the New French Extremity movement, of all places — but one that manages to display its cutthroat ambitions with surprising subtlety."

MovieFreak / Sarah Michelle Fetters

"Ortiz pushes the subgenre forward with a heady and unsettling immersion into the realm of true crime with a distinct horror twist."

Bloody Disgusting / Meagan Navarro

"Strange Harvest is a brutal, well-crafted descent into depravity that walks a tightrope between realism and horror fantasy."

Film Threat / Tom Atkinson

"A compelling blend of true-crime documentary aesthetics and foreboding horror, director Stuart Ortiz presents a meticulously crafted low-fi affair chock full of references to adorn its own strange, supernatural lore."

Fish Jelly Films / YouTube

"Stuart Ortiz crafts a phenomenal, disturbing, and creepy pseudo-documentary with ‘Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire’."

Dread Central / Mary Beth McAndrews

"A grizzly serial killer vs cop procedural and an incredibly spot-on spoof of True Crime documentaries."

Nightmare on Film Street / Jonathan DeHaan

"Ortiz’s bone-chilling effort is easily the found footage horror standout of 2025"

Daily Dead / Rocco T. Thompson

"A fascinating and neatly realised horror riff on the 2020s' most popular genre."

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus

"A compelling horror show woven through mockumentary threads."

RogerEbert.com

"Strange Harvest offers plenty of grisly intrigue for genre fans."

Decider (Stream It Verdict)

"A deeply unsettling experience that mimics true-crime docs with eerie precision."

The Daily Beast

"An impressively realistic faux-documentary horror."

JoshAtTheMovies.com

"Like Lake Mungo, but original and confidently crafted."

Rue Morgue

"Perhaps the best pseudo-documentary since Lake Mungo."

Dread Central

"An eerie, convincing recreation of modern true-crime format."

Paste Magazine

"Gruesome, nasty effects and dreadful intrigue keep the tension high."

Movies and Munchies

"This mockumentary blurs fiction and reality with compelling verité style."

The Daily Beast

"A gripping and immersive faux-true-crime thriller."

From the Fourth Row

"A thoroughly engaging horror mockumentary."

Moviejawn

"Worth horror mavens' time with enough variation on genre tropes."

Decider

"Strange Harvest nails the true-crime parody in early moments."

Paste Magazine

"A convincing blend of documentary style and horror tension."

RogerEbert.com

"An unforgettable mockumentary experience for true-crime fans."

JoshAtTheMovies.com

"The film's doc style keeps you immersed, making it feel almost real."

From the Fourth Row

"Mockumentary structure executed in a way that feels familiar and eerie."

Paste Magazine

"Strange Harvest sets itself apart with immersive documentary mimicry."

Decider

"A compelling horror journey that blends mockumentary realism with unsettling imagery."

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