Inside 'Shelby Oaks': How Mike Flanagan teamed with a YouTube critic-turned-director

‘Shelby Oaks’ Director Chris Stuckmann on That Horrific Ending, Shooting on 2000s Camcorders and His YouTube Origins

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the ending of “Shelby Oaks,” now playing in theaters. So, who took Riley Brennan? Director Chris Stuckmann makes his directorial debut with Neon’s horror “Shelby Oaks,” which follows the disappearance of a YouTuber and amateur ghost hunter Riley Brennan (Sarah Durn). Having started his career as a film […]

How ‘Shelby Oaks’ Director Chris Stuckmann Made the Jump From YouTuber to Big Screen Filmmaker

“Shelby Oaks,” a new horror movie that Neon is releasing this weekend, pairs traditional narrative elements with the grainy, found footage aesthetic of, say, “Paranormal Activity” or “The Blair Witch Project.” The movie follows a woman (Camille Sullivan) who is searching for her younger sister (Sarah Durn), a semi-famous YouTube personality known for investigating paranormal phenomena, who has mysteriously vanished. It serves as a throwback to t…

Inside 'Shelby Oaks': How Mike Flanagan teamed with a YouTube critic-turned-director

Director Chris Stuckmann and executive producer Mike Flanagan on how they met and made movie magic. Neon Camille Sullivan as Mia in 'Shelby Oaks'Chris Stuckmann, one of the most popular movie reviewers on YouTube, finds himself on the other side of the critical line. Having shared his snackable film critiques for close to two decades with an audience of 2.03 million subscribers, it's now his own cinematic work that's under the microscope. Shelby…

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Shelby Oaks Combines Scares And Intrigue

I’m old enough to remember when the original “found footage” movie The Blair Witch Project came out back in 1999.  This was back when social media didn’t exist and a large part of the world was still using dial-up internet.  There was a big media push at the time to some how convince people that the movie, and the found footage film it contained was real.  While that seems laughable now (and was even laughable at the time) there were still those