Camille Sullivan

Sarah Durn

Brendan Sexton III

Robin Bartlett

Michael Beach

Keith David

Anthony Baldasare

Caisey Cole

Charlie Talbert

Sloane Burkett

Brenna Sherman

Derek Mears

Emily Bennett

Lauren Ashley Berry

Eric Francis Melaragni

C.L. Simpson

Phuong Kubacki

Cody Steele

Mason Heidger

Joe Quinn

Mariah Burks

Lina Edwards

Sam Liz

Morgan McLeod

Roger Conners

Andrew Scott Baird

Mike Wendt

Chris Stuckmann

Aaron B. Koontz

Cameron Burns

Ashleigh Snead

Mike Flanagan

Alex Euting

Shawn Talley

Patrick Lawrence

Christopher Hare

Sarah Sharp

Michelle Millette

Kyle Roberts

Michele Sweeney Abrams

Thom Allport

Sara Holden

James Burkholder

Brandon Christensen

Andrew Grush

Taylor Stewart

Brett W. Bachman

David Greathouse

Henri Rapp

Andrew Santin

Samuel Thompson

Schuyler White

Colin Campbell

To Uyen Nguyen

Ben Ellsworth-Feher

James Boisvenue

Shawna-Nova Foley

Sarah A. Royal

Tyler J. Curren

Antonio Grassano

Daniel McFadden

B.T. Rambeau

Justin A. Simpson

Anthony Buckner

Trevor Macy

Melinda Nishioka

Giles Daoust

Catherine Dumonceaux

Adam F. Goldberg

Anthony Killough

Sean E. DeMott

Paul Holbrook

Inderpal Singh

Bob Portal

Mekhi Bradley

Joel Cyr

Angel Djambazov

Jeremy Dunham

Mike Filsaime

Mark Gogolewski

Benjamin Peter Hughes

Constantine Kontos

Chase Lehocky

Andy Minh Nguyen

Ronald A. Reyes

Adam Schmidt

Brent Starheim

David Brown

Thomas Deasey

Bryan Wayne Dull

Shant Hamassian

Christine Jacobs

Ky Lee

Michael M. Murrillo

Tushar Rakheja

Arthur Sevalho

Mohammad Almagweshi

Joel Andrade-Sanchez

Everett Eran Baker

Hunter Barrow

David Guglielmo

Candra Buchanan

Marvin Castro

Nick Clements

Paolo Colella

Robert Crews

Max Dibiase

Garrett Dunne

Michael Dutzer

Kristopher Federico

Aleksandr Fedorchuk

Nick Ford

Jake Goldberger

Zachariah Hanson

Brian Huff

James Jacobs

Matt Krocheski

Gordon Mak

Kyle McDonough

Géza C. Mórocz

Horror

Mystery

Shelby Oaks

Paper Street Pictures

Intrepid Pictures

HLBRK Entertainment

Title Media

United States of America

Belgium

CinemaSerf

I thought this was going to be about a woman called “Shelby Oaks” but instead it’s a petty shameless hybrid of “Blair Witch” meets “The Omen” by way of the Blumhouse cutting room floor - and it isn’t very good. It starts out in sensationalised faux-documentary mode as it explains to us that four folks from one of YouTube’s most successful American paranormal investigation programmes have gone missing in the woods near the abandoned town of Shelby Oaks. Bodies are duly, and rather gruesomely, discovered but not that of “Riley” (Sarah Durn) and her sister “Mia” (Camille Sullivan) is determined to find out just what happened. Scoot on a few years and a strange man arrives at her door clutching a camera tape. Might this give her the clues she needs to set off into the creepy woods and get to the bottom of this mystery? There is one scene is this film where she is sitting, blood-stained, on her sofa at home after a fairly traumatic experience on her doorstep and her husband come to sit beside her. He just says “Are you OK?”. She nods. He goes off into the kitchen and opens a can of beer. That rather sums up the depths of any characterisation here as this lacklustre effort struggles to make any headway for a dreary ninety minutes. What follows is more of an homage to about a dozen other films from this genre, than anything remotely original in itself. The acting is as bad as the dialogue and the ending has all the terror of the more menacing “Ursula” scenes from Disney’s “Little Mermaid” (1989). I saw this all by myself in the cinema, and it’s easy to see why. Perhaps this genre needs to start with better casting and stories and not just rely on creaking trees and spooky audio effects to sell us a story. I wouldn’t bother, sorry.