With Shelby Oaks, writer/director Chris Stuckmann made the leap from YouTube to theatrical film. But his feature directorial debut, which is now playing in theaters, doesn’t look the same as it did when it played the festival circuit in 2024. Shelby Oaks follows Mia (Camille Sullivan), a woman who has been obsessively searching for her […]
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Even before anyone had seen a frame of Shelby Oaks, critic and YouTuber Chris Stuckmann‘s feature directorial debut, it became one of the most talked-about horror films in the last five years simply because of the sheer weight of support its concept garnered. Stuckmann’s efforts to crowdfund the film set Kickstarter records, early festival buzz […]
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The feature film debut of writer/director Chris Stuckmann has a solid, albeit slightly familiar, premise. In 2008, four YouTubers known for a ghost hunting show called ‘Paranormal Paranoids’ go missing near the deserted town of Shelby Oaks, sparking conspiracy theories and suspicions it’s a hoax to increase the channel’s notoriety. When the bodies of Laura […]
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