Shelby Oaks (2024): A Love Letter to Found Footage That Can’t Quite Deliver
There’s something both admirable and slightly painful about Shelby Oaks. Chris Stuckmann spent years on YouTube explaining exactly what makes horror work — the atmosphere, the dread, the craft of withholding. He knows the genre intimately. And then he made a film that demonstrates, with some uncomfortable clarity, that knowing what makes something great and being able to do it yourself are t...[Read More]
Ending, Symbols & The Grove — Late Night with the Devil Explained
Man, this film stays with you. I watched Late Night with the Devil expecting a solid found footage horror. What I got instead was a puzzle — one that kept revealing new layers the more I thought about it. The ending alone sent me down a two-hour research spiral. The Grove. The deal. Madeleine hidden in the frames. The skeleton. What Jack actually stabbed. This article is everything I found. The fu...[Read More]
Movies Like Backrooms (2026): 11 Films That Share Its Liminal Dread
I have a theory about liminal horror. The reason it works — the reason a photograph of an empty corridor can make your skin crawl in a way that a masked killer simply can’t — is that it doesn’t invent a threat. It reveals one that was already there. The wrongness of a space you can’t escape. The particular dread of a place that looks almost right but isn’t. The fluorescent ...[Read More]
Backrooms (2026): A24’s Most Unsettling Horror Film of the Year
Some horror films arrive with decades of mythology behind them. Backrooms arrives with something more modern and arguably more potent: an internet legend, a teenager with a camera, and 190 million YouTube views. Directed by Kane Parsons — known online as Kane Pixels, who was just 16 when he began uploading his Backrooms found footage series in January 2022 — and produced by A24 alongside James Wan...[Read More]
In Darkness We Fall / La Cueva (2014): Almost Worth Your Time
Spain has a strong track record in horror. REC is a masterclass. The Others is a classic. Even Rec 2 holds up. So when I came across a Spanish found footage film set on the sun-drenched island of Formentera and filmed entirely in a real cave system, I was genuinely excited. A cave. Real locations. Spanish horror DNA. What could go wrong? In Darkness We Fall — original title La Cueva, directed by A...[Read More]