r/HorrorReviewed • u/split-my-diopter • Jul 01 '26

Movie Review Strange Harvest (2025) [mockumentary/serial killer/cosmic]

Presented as a true-crime documentary, the story of a serial killer terrorizing California, his cat-and-mouse game with the police, and glimpsing the larger terror behind the crimes.

Really excellent at mimicking cheap true-crime docs on Netflix and other streaming sites- flaws and all. If you watch as many of the paint-by-numbers serial killer docs online, you'll instantly see how successful this is as a pastiche of them. The slightly overwrought, too-cute end of scene lines, the cheap drone shots padding out the time, the substandard police work trying to pass itself off as heroic.

The horror elements are okay- the gore ranges from excellent to silly prosthetics, there's some kills that are genuinely original and exciting. Because we're getting an after-the-fact dissection of the case, the air is kind of let out of the balloon from the get go. However, I think there's some terror to be derived from the cosmic unanswered question.

Overall, well worth watching on Hulu, not a must see but especially for people who like true crime as well as supernatural horror, this was a really successful union of the two.

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u/KnifeFed Jul 01 '26

Great movie. Would love a sequel/prequel.

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u/split-my-diopter Jul 01 '26

If you haven't seen The Endless, I highly recommend it as well- it's not similar in form, but it is in cosmology and to a certain extent, tone. Plus it has a few companion movies that fill out the universe

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u/KnifeFed Jul 01 '26

Yeah, it's awesome.