The pleasures of online sleuthing lie in the chase. True-crime enthusiasts, believers in ghosts and apparitions, haunted house hunters — these are all people who pride themselves on being able to peer into corners that traditional law enforcement cannot reach. Found footage films have historically benefited from this, too, where audiences find themselves immersed in evidence of the unexplainable.

Shelby Oaks , a loose continuation of the popular YouTube series of the fictional "Paranormal Paranoids," is unusually skittish about its own premise and its format. After a decently haunting and well-set-up pre-credits act, writer-director Chris Stuckmann abandons the found footage for a sleek thriller — an approach that sinks further and further into the hellish pits of somnambulant horror

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