There’s been a surge in recent years of horror directors tackling social media influencer culture and #chadgetstheaxe is the newest attempt and succeeds largely because of its dedication to the authenticity of recreating the live stream experience through it’s personalities, chat integration and slick editing. Opening with one influencer, Steve Spice, showing his followers (dubbed “The Spice Squad”) an abandoned […]
Invoking Yell was a hit at the sixth annual Unnamed Footage Festival this year in San Francisco, and is currently making the festival rounds. Director Patricio Valladares was kind enough to sit down with us to answer some questions about the film and discuss his love of metal, as well as other projects he’s been working on. So put on […]
“I would equate it to like organs inside a body, you need all the organs to match together to pump whatever goo is inside your body like pee, and blood.” These are the colorful words Alfred Costella (Vinny Curran, Resolution) uses to describe what a film is, in terms of working parts, when asked by a talk show host (Bill […]
Patricio Valladares’ Invoking Yell, which screened as part of the sixth annual Unnamed Footage Festival’s lineup, takes us back to the 1990s and the then burgeoning black metal scene. Across Europe, the black metal scene had church burnings, murders, and suicides. Valladares brings his own spin on scene drama to Chile and the self-described “depressive suicidal black metal band”, Invoking […]
Cleverly dropping viewers into the film within the film, Timothée Hochet and Lucas Pastor’s debut feature Stéphane opens mid-scene as an up and coming director named Timothée (Bastien Garcia delivering a perfectly nuanced debut feature performance) shoots his latest action-packed, espionage short. He and his actors are interrupted by a peculiar man named Stéphane (Lucas Pastor himself, unrecognizable under makeup) […]
Scott Slone’s decade-plus-long endeavor Malibu Horror Story opens by revealing a team of young paranormal researchers in a remote Malibu Canyon cave who are recording the pilot episode of their web series. They’re preparing for the inaugural EVP session and in the process describe their roster of standard spirit hunting tech, including the spirit box they’ll use to communicate with […]
A brief disclaimer momentarily flashes across the screen revealing the origin of the film’s footage to be a collector who purchased a box of 8mm and 16mm film dating back to 1967 from a deceased estate, before dropping viewers right into the first reel of director Derick Muller’s debut film Wesens. The first ten or so minutes all take place […]
The Zand Order directed by Sarah Goras Peterson follows a mother searching for answers related to her daughter’s death. She believes a cult was responsible for her daughter’s death, however the police had their doubts and previously closed the investigation. The film follows Yessica (the camera specialist) and Vex (the tracker/guide) who were hired by Morgan (the mother), to help […]
“Based on reports of extraterrestrial encounters” is the first thing you see when starting Patrick Donnelly’s 2022 found footage sci-fi film “The Alien Report” and it’s a message that attempts to root this story within reality. Pentagon footage, abduction reports and questions of the aliens intentions with humanity quickly set the stage for the story to kickstart with the narrator […]
A series of pictures and general information about the victims accompanied by a horrific recording of a 911 call set the stage for the grim events that will unfold across Robbie Banfitch’s The Outwaters before temporarily thrusting the viewer into the personal lives of these travelers via memory cards recovered from their camera. Through displaying personal moments between the characters […]