Savageland, a docuhorror

Has anyone else seen this? I found it thanks to a reddit thread and I'm a tad obsessed with it at the moment. I left me with a sense of dread yet there's no tropes page on it here or even a wikipedia article on it and I'm dying to drink in every bit of info on it that I can.

What's it about,a summary would be nice

It's about an entire town in Arizona that got slaughtered in one night, save for a single survivor who becomes the prime suspect. The story of what actually happened is mainly told through creepy Polaroid photos that the survivor/suspect took and there's no jumpscares whatsoever.

Is it an actual documentary or what's called a fakedoc or found footage?

It's a mockumentary! It technically falls under found footage, but it's framed as an actual documentary.

Having just watched the film a couple of days ago, well... it is one creepy film. It is a Mockumentary with an emphasis on the documentary part. The feel of the film is very much that of a documentary and for the first half, you could probably fool someone into thinking that the film is real. The first half is spent telling what all happened as far as the government and first trial showed. This half isn't really scary and is honestly pretty relaxing. It is the second half where the horror part of the film comes in and it definitely comes in.

As other people have said, the film doesn't really do jump scares as much as it shows pictures of what the sole survivor took on that night. The pictures however are done well enough that it really doesn't make that much of a difference. The film itself doesn't state what exactly happened, but the most likely explanations are either zombies or some sort of demonic possessions/resurrections gone very wrong. The people who show up in the pictures are hideously distorted and creepy and at least one or two is explicitly stated by the survivor to have died and come back. In fact, if you have a good eye, you can actually spot one or two people who show up alive in earlier pics come back in later pics as dead people. The format for the second half is a mixture of the pictures, an interview with Salazar (the survivor of the attack), and a border patrol host doing a walk through of Salazar's run through town that night. There is also a rather sad subplot about Salazar and this one family he was good friends that made me tear up (Especially in regards to Dana's fate and the obvious mental damage seeing that did to Salazar.) One nasty little detail that I didn't see anyone online actually mention in an interview is that if you look at the shirt of one of the... things in her pictures, it matches up to Ron Templeton in his pics. I'll leave it up to you to speculate from there. The ending's a little weak and they never actually explain what exactly happened. Amusingly, pretty much every character in the film gets it wrong about what exactly happened with the government and sheriff blaming Salazar and the reporter blaming the KKK.

Overall, its a really well done film and I would definitely recommend that you check it out if you like your horror very much about dread and letting your imagination do most of the work with creepy imagery. It is available on Amazon Prime and iTunes, but not on places like HBO or Hulu. I will say that you absolutely should not watch it in the dark if you normally don't watch horror. It will probably scare you like it did me.

Ah, so sort of like Trollhunters then.

A bit like that except that Savageland is really, really committed to being like a documentary. You could probably put this on by someone unaware and they would probably end believing that you are watching a real documentary. It is part of why the pictures are so creepy. The slow burn lets you imagine more and more of what's happened and well... the stated details are rather extreme (It is an entire town dead after all.) They have a picture of an autopsy report of a couple of people, no blood or anything like that within. In fact, they look just like normal people... except for the markings of where and what damage has been done to them and I read the paused frame of it. They're talking severed limbs, nearly chopped in half and skinned corpses, missing body parts... it is made very clear that whatever it is that did kill everyone definitely did not do it cleanly and it is of course used as evidence against Salazar due to him, in the eyes of the sheriff, being a potential member of a Mexican gang as well as the locals being rather racist against him.