YouTube film critic Chris Stuckmann makes his feature debut with the upcoming Shelby Oaks, a horror movie that was making headlines before the cameras even started rolling. Stuckmann turned to crowd-funding to bring the project to life, you may recall, and Shelby Oaks ended up becoming the highest-funded horror film in the history of Kickstarter with over $1 million.
That allowed Stuckmann to bring the deeply personal horror tale to the screen, and Shelby Oaks was subsequently boarded by Mike Flanagan as Executive Producer and acquired for distribution by the indie horror heavyweights over at NEON. It’s a dream scenario for any filmmaker, and Stuckmann isn’t forgetting the backers who made it all happen.
NEON has released a brand new poster for Shelby Oaks this morning that pays tribute to everyone who supported the film’s original crowd-funding campaign. The names of all 14,720 backers have been incorporated into the background, all of them coming together to form a creepy image. Check out the art below and see if you can spot your own name!
A traditional narrative that incorporates found footage elements, Shelby Oaks hits theaters on October 24.
Can’t wait until then? NEON and Bloody Disgusting are joining forces for a series of free sneak screenings on October 8 in select locations! Here’s everything you need to know.
Shelby Oaks is about missing paranormal investigators, the dark legacy they uncovered, and the far-reaching effects their investigation has as Mia searches for her sister Riley, the lead paranormal investigator, 12 years later. The film’s official synopsis continues…
“As Mia uncovers new and disturbing leads related to Riley’s disappearance, she uncovers evidence of a hidden supernatural evil dating all the way back to her and Riley’s childhood.”
Shelby Oaks has been rated “R” for “violent content/gore, suicide and language.”
NEON previews, “What started as a tale about missing YouTubers eventually transformed into something with deeper, darker implications for its characters, and it wasn’t until post-production, that Stuckmann realized the film was a much more personal project than he had initially conceived. Stuckmann was raised in a faith (Jehovah’s Witness) that practices shunning. At twelve years old, his sister was excommunicated and he was forced to shun her. Cutting off all communication, he was told his sister was ‘spiritually dead.’
“It wasn’t until Stuckmann’s early twenties when he finally escaped the faith, that he reconnected with his sister. It became clear that the story behind Shelby Oaks – about someone’s desperate yearning to find a lost loved one as seemingly insurmountable forces keep them apart – is inspired by his own search for his sister.”
Watch the film’s final official trailer below.
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