Shelby Oaks2025

It’s been a pleasure following Chris Stuckmann’s YouTube channel for so long and now he has made his debut as a director with a horror film. Removing my slight bias towards him, I will have to be honest that this debut is clearly a mixed bag for me. There are strokes of good stuffs and also clearly B-Grade execution/writing. Mystery does get really interesting and Chris has tried to give it kinda “Alan Wake” vibes (Gamers will understand). But I really didn’t like the ending. It was so obvious that someone inexperienced was at the helm as the director, although I really appreciate his attempt. Knowing Chris through his channel, I am damn sure he will improve a lot in the future because I could really see great potential in this debut film that didn’t work for me as a whole unfortunately.  I wondered how it would have been if this was a 100% found footage horror. I enjoyed those found footage scenes more than the usual format.