Shelby Oaks

11/5/2025

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 t

5/10/2026

So much more than found footage This looed to be just another found footage movie, and didn't have the promise of a "Grave Encounters", for instance. However, the movie switches from the found footage and into a broader horror, and much to its improvement. The casting is solid, the characters are good, the directing works, and while the story is a bit uneven, this is not a bad movie by any stretch.