Fantasia! I will forever remember this night. Thank you so much to everyone who came to see our film. Watching it with a passionate, enthusiastic crowd was one of the most surreal, out-of-body experiences of my life. On to FrightFest!

got me at the mockumentary intro, lost me at the third act

Crazy how this manages to be every horror movie ever

Finally got to see why Chris Stuckmann stopped criticising anything and won’t shut up about how hard it is to make movies.

the black mold all over those walls...jk rowling girl that's you in 10 years

congrats to Chris Stuckmann for somehow crowdfunding millions of dollars to make what is basically, and I mean this as affectionately as possible, Alan Wake fan fiction

considering the fact that i'm a sucker for found footage subgenre, i genuinely adored the first 20 minutes of this & i firmly believe that this movie would've been sooo much better had the entire thing been in a faux documentary format.

unfortunately, i wasn't as engaged when it switched to the traditional filming style but the whole thing had a late 2000s/early 2010s horror feel to it which i'm obsessed with, so it's not a complete failure in my eyes!

B-movie blender of horror tropes done with style and energy. Nothing extraordinary, but a fun time at the movies, a few great suspense sequences, and a great opening sequence. There's a pretty bold formal decision made after the first 30 mins that got me excited for what ended up being a dumb jump-scare fest. I personally found the unpretentious style-over-substance quality refreshing in the face of trauma-obsessed "elevated" horror. Just a solid time at the movies. 

Some more thoughts on Stuckmann and the broader discourse about "youtuber movies":
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Woof… (literally and critically)

This is so hard to rate, because I admire everything about Chris Stuckmann. He’s inspired me every step of the way in my journey as a movie lover and content creator. I actually published my book with the same publisher as he did years ago! So I envy his success and I only hope I’m in this spot in 7-8 years myself. 

That said, it’s spooky. It’s scary. It’s pretty effective. And I see that Chris loves horror movies - almost to a fault at times. I see a lot of other movies in this - Lake Mungo, The Taking of Deborah Logan, Hereditary - it is a bit of a love letter to recent horror classics, but it does do its own thing too!

For a first time effort, this is very solid. Good on you Chris!

My sister could just stay missing because there’s no way in HELL I’m doing all of that rambunctious bs for her…