Special Report: The Dark Gets In (2026)

The scariest true-crime documentary is the one that stops being true. The Dark Gets In (2026), which premiered at Beyond Fest and heads to FrightFest in the UK, follows a documentary crew interviewing the parents of a teenage girl who vanished from a locked house, until the case turns somewhere far darker than anyone expected. Writer-director Sean Hogan, who made The Devil's Business (2011), shot it so convincingly in streaming-doc style that you may forget it's fiction.

Mike talks with Hogan about a found-footage video-diary idea that sat for years until a pandemic-era chat about true crime gave it a shape, a script used as a roadmap for actors who improvised in character, an open casting call with roughly 6,000 applicants, a young lead who invented material over email, and the childhood monster books that made him a horror lifer.

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