There's an everything-all-in-one quality to "Shelby Oaks" that makes it feel less like a compendium of horror's greatest hits than it does a work of indecision.

The debut film from YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Chris Stuckmann — the Ohio native started posting film reviews on the platform in 2009 — throws a lot at viewers, from Satanic rituals to found footage set-ups to witchcraft, hellhounds and good old-fashioned jump scares. The result feels like an homage to other, more realized works rather than a singular vehicle for terror.

It starts off well. An assortment of newsreel clips introduces Riley Brennan (Sarah Durn), a popular YouTuber and host of the ghost-hunting series "Paranormal Paranoids," who goes missing after an investigation into the haunted Ohio town of Shelby Oaks. In this ca

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