Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)

Eli (Brendon Huor) is fleeing through the woods with Jamie (Mickey Facchinello), who is recording. Jamie suddenly disappears, and Eli searches for him, but instead finds the Operator (Doug Jones), a tall, faceless creature in a suit. The Operator attacks Jamie before the footage ends.

Milo (Chris Marquette), Sara (Alexandra Breckenridge), and Charlie (Jake McDorman), are the members of a news reporting team. The three are tasked with investigating the disappearance of a man named Dan (Michael Bunin). Milo analyzes a series of Mini-DVR tapes filmed by Dan, discovering the presence of the Operator within them. A power outage occurs, and Milo discovers the Operator Symbol (⦻) engraved into his neck when the power returns. The Operator follows Milo home, and he goes to Sara's house but is forced to leave by her and Charlie. Milo decides to sleep in his car.

The following day, Milo returns home and finds Charlie in an upstairs bedroom. Charlie angrily confronts Milo about filmed footage that he has of Sara. Sara comes in and is disgusted by what she sees, and Milo begins to panic. Charlie refuses to let him touch a camera, and Milo then tells him to grab the camera and look around. Through the camera, Charlie sees the closet door flying open, and the Operator rushing towards him. Charlie drops the camera, and all three flee from the house.

The three go on the run, trying to escape the Operator and find out what happened to Dan and his family. Eventually, they learn that Dan used his money to purchase a new home, which had been burned down. They locate a storm shelter with a working camera feed, which reveals that Dan killed his daughter Tara (Morgan Bastin) before being killed himself by his wife Rose (Alexandra Holden), who then burned the house down.

They contact Rose, now locked up in an asylum, who informs them that she believes the Operator came into their life because Dan became interested in it. When she sees the Operator Symbol on Sara's arm, she attacks her. The crew are forced to leave while medical staff restrain Rose. They decide to make a last stand against the Operator in a cabin. After setting the whole place up with cameras, Milo notices that the camera picked up a detail he missed at the hospital: Rose's mark was gone.

The crew is then attacked by the Operator. Milo hangs himself, believing that if he dies, Charlie and Sara will be safe. The Operator seemingly leaves after Milo dies, but Milo's dead body suddenly rises from the ground like a zombie. It grabs a pipe and beats Charlie to death before catching and killing Sara. Milo then falls to the floor with pale eyes. Moments later, the Operator appears, and his movements seemingly loop. He then vanishes, and Milo's eyes return to normal.

The film ends with Dan and Rose leaving a sale, where Dan has purchased a camera with a "college project tape" inside, presumably a tape from the student film-within-a-film of the original Marble Hornets webseries.