This has a terrifically scary final image and a neat attempt to subvert some of the easy found footage tropes by making its characters such excited participants in the "fear, friendship, art" process by being SOV horror filmmakers and amateur "ghost hunters." The appeal of this is I guess supposed to be that it has very naturalistically blended the real lives of its makers with its fictional haunted house scenario but to be honest I found these people (maybe hypocritically, as a fellow horror nerd who appreciated their t-shirts and posters) incredibly grating, and the ratio of legit horror setpieces to hanging out with them being loud and annoying about anticipating horror setpieces that weren't coming anytime soon to be a bit deadly. The sense of escalating/evolving danger and friend group dynamics under pressure never gets anywhere even close to approaching Blair Witch (an unavoidable comparison it forces you to make), and for the lo-fi meta microbudget formal experimentation... idk I guess the hellmouth and loud noise was cool but I really don't see what I'm supposed to be getting out of this that I didn't already get out of something like Murder Death Koreatown.

Further discussion on ep 347 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS, as part of our TIFF24 coverage.