Reminds me of States Evidence.

I've never heard of that, but I will look into it. I was really impressed by this film and suicide pacts are always fun times at the movies! (A little Japanese horror called "Suicide Club" has proven that point for all time. But absolutely nothing about that film was similar to this one.)

I was reminded of a film called Dread (2010). Adapted from a Clive Barker short story of the same name, Dread deals with three college students who set out to make their own documentary for their film class final project. Their subject is people's primal fears, and why they feel this way. Meadowoods also explored this territory, particularly when Ryan was demanding of Kayla in his own aggressive interview, supposedly for a student project, what she was truly afraid of. It was released with the 2010 After Dark Horrorfest.

Unlike Meadowoods, Dread is filmed in the traditional style however, and we only rarely see from the point of view of the student's camera when they conduct their interviews. It's also brimming with some pretty explicit nudity, adult relations, violence, gore and just gross-out grime (think: maggots) while this film obviously had nothing of the sort.

It was still very scary to me, but in a dreamy, fantastical characters, horror movie kind of way. I was interested in the story and the lovely cinematography, overall it was significantly more entertaining as a film. I loved it too.
But it had nothing on the veritable psychological trauma I felt from this.

I was ALSO reminded of a J.T. Petty film called "S&Man" I watched recently, also on Netflix Instant Watch coincidentally. It was a half-real, half-scripted pseudo-documentary about the world of really underground horror a la Toe Tag Pictures' August Underground series. Most of the time Petty just went around interviewing real people like the Toe Tag guys about what they do, and the film is mostly seen from the point of view of the camera he's using to document all of this.

But to make it more of a horor film with a statement and less of a niche documentary, he also comes across this completely unknown amateur "filmmaker" who he thinks may be actually stalking and killing women for his "independent movies" and a good amount of the film's content is Petty and Co. investigating this possibility and trying to make some kind of point about the voyeuristic nature of the horror film in general. This message was kind of lost on me, but I know there are other people who seemed to understand him or at least be genuinely unnerved by the "real snuff filmmaker" plot.

I think it was that character, who documents with his own handheld camera his stalking and killing exploits (which he then sells as an independent film series), that reminded me of our methodical, film-making murder planners in Meadowoods. It meandered along pretty slowly (though in the meandering department, again, nothing I've seen beats Meadowoods) but the real documentary parts were pretty interesting. At least to me as a horror enthusiast who doesn't know that much about that aspect of my interest.