"Found Footage" DIY horror movie about dark electronic music
This is not directly about gothic music, more about genres that are related to it...
but maybe the sound and themes of this movie do fit to this subreddit after all.
(if not, feel free to delete the post).
We did a "found footage" style horror movie with a Doomcore / Doomtechno / Dark Ambient type soundtrack.
The idea is to portray a surreal walk through a forest within the urban city limits of Hamburg, Germany.
This is a forest with quite the history, both negative and positive; dismembered corpses in body bags have been found here and other nasty things, but parties and raves have been held there as well, there is an adjacent LBGTQIA+ cruising area close to a lake, at daytime the forest is a romantic place to chill out at, and at night time it's great for stargazing.
So let's just say there are some strange and peculiar energies going around at this place.
Title of our movie: "Walking in the Doomed Forest of Hamburg"
The movie is split into two parts. The first part was intended to look as if recorded with a phone camera by someone who happens to stumble upon this forest and decides to explore it. The second part looks much more cinematic, less gritty and grainy, and now it feels more like an disembodied, ethereal tour through the very forest.
As the journey goes on, the view of the camera eye becomes more and more distorted and mutated, starts to metamorph and hallucinations seemingly start to enter our view.
Apparitions, portals, flames and fire seem to float by our aimless wanderer.
The horror is purely on a psychological level, though. We didn't want to include any actual monsters, zombies, walking corpses...
It's a trip for the mind, you see?
And it's not just about "horror"... it's more like a visual musing on the idea that the ways and pleasures of "heaven and hell" might be closer to you than you dare to imagine.
A very important part is played by the soundtrack. The rough electronic beats plus the dark and / or soothing ambience bleed into the visions of inferno, cosmos, and paradisiacal places.
In the end, this movie follows a seemingly stripped-down, almost "lofi" approach. There is no true narrative beyond the aimless wandering. There is no interaction, there are no other human beings, there is (almost) no apparent world outside the forest. The forest is an encapsulated labyrinth; ideas, concepts, thoughts, get introduced on a symbolic level.
To some viewers, it might feel more like a visually recorded meditation, than an actual "movie".
But this is intentional. The symbolism, the sparse or blatant visual and audio cues are meant to create a world inside the mind of the viewer, by the viewer, for the viewer.
The movie was done in the course of one year (including production and post-production), and shot "on location" in Hamburg... in a forest (of course).
And we think it's actually the first time someone ever did a "found footage" horror movie that is centered around dark electronic / techno music.
If this description sounds like something you'd enjoy, why not give it a try?
the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOsPRnXbNc
more information: https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-first-found-footage-dark-techno.html
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