History Film / TheFactsInTheCaseOfMisterHollow

* SecretSocietyGroupPicture: The OccultDetective and his eponymous source correctly presume Hollow's {{Spooky Photograph|s}} depicts a MysteryCult operating in Ontario, but the atypically rustic environs of a wooded campsite, and the jocularity of some of the figures heavily hint not only at its membership, but also its typical practices and methods of worship.

* PenName[=/=]SueDonym: Careful examination of the OccultDetective's other documents reveals that Johnny Hollow is an alias adopted by Johnathon H. Ollow, a writer for The Greater Toronto Gazette.

* BadassPreacher: The Young Priest aiming a shotgun, who, along with the Old Priest, is revealed to be hidden behind the trees, out of the sightline of the cultists.

* GodOfEvil: The MysteryCult worships the Keres, understood to be evil Greco-Roman goddesses in the film. Though not detailed in the film itself, in ClassicalMythology they are the ''daimones'' (AnthropomorphicPersonifications) of violent, painful ''death.''

* EvilGod: The MysteryCult worships the Keres, understood to be evil Greco-Roman goddesses in the film. Though not detailed in the film itself, in ClassicalMythology they are the ''daimones'' (AnthropomorphicPersonifications) of violent, painful ''death.''

In 1933, Johnny Hollow took a photograph of a woman holding a child and three men at a campsite. However, the camera pans around the photograph to reveal that things are not quite right. What is that weird symbol on everybody's wrist? What are they going to burn in that fire? As the movie progresses, the photograph changes, getting progressively more unsettling. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzw8qdXCep8 here]].

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Though it only has a short form and the ParanormalInvestigation horror subgenre in common, the film's title is modeled after Creator/EdgarAllenPoe's FictionalDocument short story "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar."

* DontGoInTheWoods: The woods of northern Ontario are where a SecretSocietyOfSecrets[=/=]MysteryCult get up to the dirty business of worshipping ancient death-goddesses, and its heavily implied that HumanSacrifice is a part of that worship.

* HillybillyHorrors: involves the investigation of a MysteryCult in the woods of northern Ontario, and a [[DontGoInTheWoods camping trip]] that may have gone very, very wrong.

* PhotosLie: PlayedForDrama as the premise of the film. The photo seems relatively innocuous until the camera progresses from showing particular details to showing things no viewer could see with the naked eye. (The contents of a rearview mirror's reflection at an angle not seen in the photo, the presence of figures obscured ''behind'' the trees.) Eventually, elements of the photo begin to change outright, suggesting that the investigator who's researching the photo is beginning to piece together a narrative about the more sinister context in which the photo was taken, as well as hinting that [[spoiler: the photo itself may be possessed.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Considering that the subject of the photo is a SecretCircleOfSecrets, and its observer an OccultDetective, it's left rather ambiguous as to whether the elements of the photo that visibly ''[[CreepyChangingPainting change]]'' or manifest detail beyond what the eye could see are simply symbolic of the investigator's gradual epiphany as they tie events together and notice details they had once ignored, a GlamourFailure on the part of the cultists, or indicators of a potentially lethal PortalPicture.