Off the Beaten Path

Watch Movie

Off the Beaten Path

"Some things are best left forgotten!"

2004

1h 4m

4.0(4 votes)

Horror

Overview

Four thrill seekers making a short film about an abandoned backwoods property in Gateway, Minnesota, unleash an evil legend that should have been left forgotten.

Where to Watch

Rent

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

The people behind it

Cast & crew

7 featured cast members

Starring

Todd Hanson

Chuck Stevens

Jessie Welsch

Brenda Jacobs

Tommy Thompson

Randy Bodine

Carrie Sizemore

Dina Duncan

Chris Prew

Local Jogger

Glenn Wagy

Local Old Man

Julie Miller

Woman in the Woods

Creative team

Directed by: Jason Stephenson
Written by: Jason Stephenson
Produced by: Jason Stephenson
Jon Warner

Similar Movies

2025

Vampire In Training (V.I.T.)

An aspiring filmmaker accidentally hires a vampire actress, leading to him being bitten and having to learn how to navigate life as a vampire.

Movie

4.5

2014

Chasing the Devil

The mysterious suicide of a man's sister prompts him to enlist paranormal investigators to look into her death.

Movie

3.8

2014

Spirit in the Woods

Fate of five local college students who went missing in the infamous Spiritual Woods is finally unraveled as previously unreleased footage is made public.

Movie

5.0

2021

Stay

In the city that never sleeps, Olivia is taking the modeling world by storm. A cover girl in the making, Olivia is booking big clients and bringing her YouTube audience along for the ride. With newly earned cash, she moves into a fashionable loft apartment. Its glossy facade, however, conceals a sinister secret born years before. Suddenly overwrought, her tenuous grip on reality begins to slip away. Beautiful, yet increasingly unstable, Olivia makes a shocking choice that leads to a battle for her soul.

Movie

5.4

2012

The Slender Man

Five college students go out into the nearby woods to have one last fling before graduation. Plans change when they start to find strange notes and are stalked by a mysterious faceless man.

Movie

2019

Tez 13. Gece

Gamze moved to a student with psychological problems called Narin at the suggestion of her boyfriend Emre and she is studying in the field of clinical psychology. Gaye chooses Narin as the subject of her school's thesis and starts to shoot the sessions with the camera. Looking at the camera records, Gaye was only able to shoot 13 nights. There has been no news from Gaye since.

Movie

2016

Baserca

In Spring 2010, a group of eight young people disappeared in the valley of Baserca, a province of Lleida. The news caused a local uproar and the authorities investigated the case with discretion. With no clues to the culprits, they decide to seek help from the media. Five months later, the program “L’Empremta” will air the chilling facts in a documentary. It’s time the legend became reality, but with a chilling argument that differs significantly from the original legend.

Movie

6.3

2017

Phoenix Forgotten

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

Movie

7.0

2016

U.F.O.

U.F.O. is an amazing experience filmed by a team of four people who went to a Robledo de Chavelas forest to shoot a documentary about UFOs. Their cameras caught something terrifying.

Movie

2025

Home Videos

Two young sisters, Charliegh and Kemper, discover a mysterious box of five VHS tapes while their mother is asleep. As they watch, the tapes reveal chilling stories: paranormal enthusiasts encounter a terrifying creature; a police deputy and cameraman face a masked killer; a Christmas party turns deadly; a news anchor’s descent into terror; and two deer hunters’ horrific demise. Each segment intertwines with the next into a complex and terrifying story that slowly unfolds until the boundary between the videos and reality blur. Especially as Charliegh finds that her night may be as horrifying as the tapes she’s been watching.

Movie

6.3

2022

From.Beyond

A kaleidoscopic vision portraying mankind’s first meeting with alien life, told through faux archival footage combined with practical FX, miniatures and old school in-camera trickery.

Movie

2026

God's Glove

A city-weary biology teacher sets out to reconnect with nature... and gets exactly what he wants.

Movie

6.0

2017

UK18

A documentary film-maker suspects she is being brainwashed by a secret government organisation.

Movie

6.5

2023

Human Hibachi: The Beginning

A brutal look at how Jin and the Human Hibachi movies got their start in Japan.

Movie

4.5

2013

Beckoning the Butcher

Beckoning the Butcher explores the night Chris Shaw and his four friends summoned a spirit into their holiday house - then disappeared forever.

Movie

3.7

2013

Stripped

Four friends head to Vegas for a 21st birthday in hopes of finding adventure, debauchery and memories that will last them a lifetime.

Movie

5.0

2023

CASSETTE

A young man invites his friend over to watch some VHS tapes, but the contents of the tapes are more disturbing than he thought.

Movie

4.5

2017

Bad Ben 2: Steelmanville Road

Rachael Harris and her husband Matt move into their new home, only to experience a barrage of paranormal, and increasingly aggressive, activity.

Movie

6.0

2025

I'm Haunted 5

The cast and crew of the I'm Haunted movie series discover that the evil entity Cyr from their films is no longer just a character - it has crossed into reality to haunt them for real.

Movie

5.0

2025

I'm Haunted 4

In an effort to escape his past and sober up, a man hides away at a remote property, unknowingly checking into the Glass family's haunted house from I'm Haunted 3.

Movie

Recommended Movies

7.7

1998

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

After going their separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to investigate the ghost of Moonscar the pirate on a haunted bayou island, but it turns out the swashbuckler's spirit isn't the only creepy character on the island. The sleuths also meet up with cat creatures and zombies... and it looks like for the first time in their lives, these ghouls might actually be real.

Movie

6.5

1949

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.

Movie

5.9

2014

Alien Abduction

A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.

Movie

6.2

1958

The Blob

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

Movie

6.2

1999

Curse of the Blair Witch

A mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.

Movie

6.0

2012

The Conspiracy

A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.

Movie

5.9

1972

Gargoyles

After receiving word about a mysterious carcass/skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter decide to remove it from the burial grounds for further study. Once they do so, they, as well as the town, are besieged by a colony of gargoyles living in some nearby caverns.

Movie

7.5

1960

Peeping Tom

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Movie

6.9

1972

The Night Stalker

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.

Movie

7.5

1933

The Invisible Man

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

Movie

6.5

1955

Tarantula

A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.

Movie

6.0

2020

Cranston Academy: Monster Zone

An intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.

Movie

6.1

2021

Nightbooks

Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

Movie

6.8

1959

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Movie

6.8

2006

The Wailer

On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.

Movie

6.6

2023

Unseen

Sam receives a call from Emily, a near blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. Can she survive using Sam as her eyes via video call?

Movie

6.9

1990

The Witches

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

Movie

6.2

2008

Mostly Ghostly

Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him transform from a social nobody to the most popular kid in school.

Movie

7.0

1957

Night of the Demon

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.

Movie

6.9

1962

Carnival of Souls

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

Movie