Mike Dorsey is a television producer, editor, and documentary filmmaker, with a passion for true crime, history, and exploring the unknown. He made the crime documentary "Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders" in 2015 with retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, which ultimately helped lead to an arrest for the murder of Tupac Shakur in 2023. In 2018, Mike was a co-producer on the Josh Duhamel-starring scripted crime series "Unsolved" for NBCUniversal, now on Netflix, inspired by his Murder Rap documentary. The following year, he was a producer and editor of the hit paranormal documentary, "Demon House," with Ghost Adventures' Zak Bagans, and the follow-up special for Travel Channel, "Demon House: The Lost Footage." As a television producer, he was the showrunner for 2022's hit series "Ghost Adventures: House Calls" on Discovery+. From 2020-21, he was a producer on the automotive-themed crime and mystery series "Auto/Biography" and "Auto/Biography: Cold Cases" on Discovery's Motor Trend network. He also edited shows for Tidal from 2018-2020, including the popular "Car Test with Elliott Wilson" interview series. As a documentary filmmaker, his other films include the Manson docu "The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter," which BuzzFeed readers named the 4th-scariest documentary ever made; the WWII documentary "Lost Airmen of Buchenwald," which aired on networks in the US and around the world; and "The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat" about mid-century modern architecture. In his spare time, Mike produces and co-hosts the popular "Dearly Departed Podcast" on Hollywood history with friend and historian Scott Michaels. He holds a degree in Marketing from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and grew up in Southern California and southwest Colorado.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Corona, California, USA
- Producer, editor, director and writer, also actor
- 8 on MovieCove
What are Mike Dorsey's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 4
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 0 · Intense 4
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 3
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Mike Dorsey's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
- discovery+
Subscription and free streaming for Mike Dorsey's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
8 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
Demon House(2019)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Hillbilly Blood(2013)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Career shape
Across their 8 MovieCove titles from 2011 to 2025.
How do Mike Dorsey's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 79th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 88th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 8 titles are Divisive.
- Divisive3
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed3
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Mike Dorsey work with?
People who share at least 2 of Mike Dorsey's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Zak Bagans shares the most, 4.
Writers
- Zak BagansShared titles: Hunting Bundy: Chase for the Devil (2025), Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022), Demon House (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Zak Bagans
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Joseph TaglieriShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022), Demon House (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Joseph Taglieri
- Justin BrooksShared titles: Hunting Bundy: Chase for the Devil (2025), Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Justin Brooks
- Lauren E. MurphyShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Lauren E. Murphy
- Michael MouracadeShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Mouracade
Producers
- Andrea D'AlessioShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Andrea D'Alessio
- Casey DaleShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Casey Dale
- Christine ShulerShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Christine Shuler
- Erika AudieShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Erika Audie
Mixed roles
- Carla Beth SmithShared titles: Destinations of the Damned with Zak Bagans (2024), Ghost Adventures: House Calls (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Carla Beth Smith