SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — What happens when one of YouTube’s most respected film critics decides to step behind the camera? You get “Shelby Oaks”, a haunting hybrid of found footage, mockumentary, ...

“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 ...

Chris Stuckmann enters the feature film landscape with a story already worthy of its own documentary. Best known for his deeply analytical movie criticism on YouTube, where his audience quietly ...

Finally, this Halloween, Chris Stuckmann‘s hybrid found footage nightmare, Shelby Oaks, is hitting theaters, courtesy of NEON and a few hundred backers who helped make the film’s Kickstarter campaign ...

“I think, more than anything, there’s a film called Lake Mungo. It’s an Australian film directed by Joel Anderson,” Stuckmann explained. “It’s presented as a documentary. It’s fictional, but it’s one ...

The YouTuber's Kickstarter-funded debut feature delivers some creepy moments, but mostly feels baldly derivative of prior, better horror efforts. Stuckmann began posting film reviews on YouTube in ...

A James Newton Howard score swells as the Hess family squares off for the final time against an extraterrestrial threat. Joaquin Phoenix pulls a baseball bat from the wall and takes a deep breath.

Discover What’s Streaming On: The buzz around Shelby Oaks (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) stems from its unusual origin. Director Chris Stuckmann was a ground-floor YouTuber ...

A 2025 psychological horror film directed and co-written by Chris Stuckmann will arrive on Hulu next month. The movie was largely crowdfunded and was later picked up by Neon for international release.