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Shelby Oaks Summary and Review - Found Footage. Lost Souls

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Part mockumentary, part found footage, and part traditional horror, Shelby Oaks follows Mia, whose sister Riley went missing twelve years earlier while investigating an alleged haunting with her vlogging team. The film opens with clips from Riley’s YouTube channel, The Paranormal Paranoids, where she and her team explore derelict locations, including the now-infamous town of Shelby Oaks. When they vanish during one of their investigations, the footage sets off a disturbing and increasingly frantic search for the truth. A Shocking Event Mia has never stopped searching for her sister, and when she’s interviewed for a new documentary on the subject, the renewed attention reignites her determination to get to the root of the mystery once and for all. After a stranger arrives at her home, a shocking incident leads to the discovery of a Shelby Oaks tape, featuring the last recordings of the Paranormal Paranoids. Mia decides to withhold this from the police (plausibly, in my view) and starts...
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House on Eden Summary and Review - When the Content Becomes the Curse

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Directed and co-written by real-life content creator Kris Collins (KallMeKris) and co-starring her frequent collaborator Celina Myers (CelinaSpookyBoo), House on Eden follows a group of paranormal vloggers chasing the next big scare — only to find themselves in the middle of one. Mixing humour, tension, and creeping dread, the film uses its found-footage format to explore that uneasy space between performance and genuine fear. An Unexpected Detour We meet the team en route to film new content at a cemetery. Unknown to Celina and Jay, Kris has discovered a supposedly haunted house nearby and, since she’s behind the wheel, they realise too late that she’s made a detour. The property’s allure lies in its obscurity — few have heard of it, let alone visited. A quick call to real-life paranormal investigators Sam and Colby confirms that even they don’t know the place, which seals the group’s decision to explore. When they arrive, the house is immaculate yet inexplicably unlocked. They begin...
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Until Dawn Summary and Review - Press Play. Die. Repeat

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Until Dawn (2025) brings the popular horror game to the big screen, and like most game-to-film adaptations, it arrives with plenty of expectations. The story follows a group of friends trapped in a remote mountain lodge, where bad decisions and buried secrets turn deadly. It’s a mix of slasher tension and supernatural chills that tries to recreate the sense of unease and consequence that made the original game so memorable. The question is whether it succeeds — or if something gets lost in translation along the way. A Promising Setup Clover and her four friends set off on a road trip to retrace the steps of Clover’s sister, Mel, who disappeared a year earlier. Along the way, they learn of a remote area where several people have gone missing over the years, and curiosity drives them to investigate. Caught in a brutal storm, they stumble upon an abandoned house and begin to explore. Evidence suggests Mel had been there before — and it’s not long before a masked killer strikes, murdering ...
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Ten Terrifying Treats for Halloween – Your Ultimate Fright Night Watchlist

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There’s nothing quite like a chilly October night—curtains drawn, lights low, and a good old-fashioned scary movie flickering on the screen. It’s the perfect season to tingle the senses and raise a few goosebumps. But what to watch, I hear you ask? Fear not. I’ve put together a specially curated list of ten Halloween-themed films guaranteed to quicken your pulse and make your night go off with a scream. You won’t find Halloween itself here—its place on any October watchlist goes without saying. Expect a mix of the bizarre, absurd, comedic, thought-provoking, and downright terrifying. No rankings, no rules—just pure Halloween viewing pleasure. 1.  Trick 'r Treat A fantastic anthology built around the warning: never disrespect the rules of Halloween. Pumpkin boy Sam is both sinister and strangely endearing, presiding over a series of interlinked stories where characters cross paths in clever ways. Well written, sharply shot, and perfectly cast, the film balances dark humour ...
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V/H/S Halloween Summary and Review - Press Play...if You Dare

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’Tis the season for horror anthologies, and this year the long-running  V/H/S  franchise grabs the blood-drenched Halloween baton with relish and and sprints screaming toward the finish line. The wrap-around story centres on the testing of a sinister new soda, “Diet Phantasma,” which quickly sets a dangerous tone before we’re plunged into a selection of Halloween-themed shorts. From haunted houses and urban legends to trick-or-treating gone horribly wrong, the anthology blends grotesque imagery, gallows humour, and a particularly disturbing entry involving disappearing children.  Tape by Tape “Coochie Coochie Coo” follows two high-school girls who go trick-or-treating one last time and experience increasingly bizarre and grotesque horrors when lured into a house by a local urban-legend figure. “Ut Supra Sic Infra” delivers a Spanish take steeped in Iberian horror atmosphere, centring on the sole survivor of a massacre at a Halloween party in an abandoned mansion...
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Trick 'r Treat Summary and Review - A Halloween Where Tricks Outnumber Treats

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Trick ’r Treat is a 2007 Halloween horror anthology that interlinks four ghoulish tales, each carrying the same moral at its heart: never disrespect the rules of Halloween . Didn’t know there were any? You will by the time the credits roll. On Halloween night, young couple Emma and Henry return home from the festivities. Emma, clearly not a fan of the season, can’t wait to pack it all away. Ignoring her husband’s half-hearted warning, she extinguishes the jack-o’-lantern and starts dismantling their decorations. Unbeknownst to them, someone—or something—is watching. Emma soon learns that cutting Halloween short comes with dire consequences. The Warren Valley Carnival The action then switches to earlier that evening, during the Warren Valley Halloween carnival, following the town’s residents as their stories intertwine. There’s the local school principal whose lesson in gluttony takes a nasty, darkly comic turn; a surly neighbour whose disdain for Halloween doesn’t go unpunished...
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Night of The Reaper Summary and Review - A VHS Nightmare Reborn

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Night of the Reaper is an ’80s-style slasher from director Brandon Christensen that pays homage to the horror staples of that decade, lovingly recreating the era’s look and feel. The retro-styled opening titles only heighten the anticipation but does it work? The Unsolved Murder The film opens in familiar territory: Emily Golding, a babysitter on Halloween night, is alone in the house, being increasingly threatened by an unseen intruder. At first, she assumes it’s the kids playing around, until the tension goes through the gears and the game turns deadly. It's an eerie, unsettling opener that delivers genuine menace. A few years later, Emily's murder remains unsolved, casting a pall over the town. The house where the killing occurred stands empty and unsellable. Rodney Arnold is the local sheriff who is still grieving the loss of his wife in a car crash and struggling to raise his young son, Max — consumed by guilt and obsession with finding the killer. Deena Comes Home Enter...
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