Chris Stuckmann’s long-anticipated Shelby Oaks has finally arrived, and it’s a confident, atmospheric feature debut that announces a major new voice in horror filmmaking.
Produced with the support of genre veteran Mike Flanagan, the film transcends its YouTube origins to become a chilling meditation on trauma, guilt, and the lingering power of unfinished stories.
While imperfect in pacing and structure, Shelby Oaks is a haunting and often deeply emotional supernatural mystery that rewards patient viewers with layered storytelling, eerie visuals, and a surprisingly poignant human core.
Stuckmann’s film expands upon the online mythos of the “Paranormal Paranoids,” a fictional ghost-hunting YouTube group whose found footage investigations captivated internet horror fans.
Author's summary: A haunting horror debut with atmospheric feature.