'Shelby Oaks' Review: Unoriginal Horror from a Popular YouTuber

As anyone who has seen The 400 Blows, Blue Collar or Targets can tell you, it’s possible for a film critic to make a successful transition to a film director their first time out. But what the feature directing debuts of François Truffaut, Paul Schrader and Peter Bogdanovich also have in common is that they were the work of critics who took what they learned watching other directors’ films and created something startlingly original. Then there’s YouTuber Chris Stuckmann. For his first time in the director’s chair, Stuckmann combined all he’s learned about moviemaking and extruded Shelby Oaks, a horror film so generic it feels like he was competing in a contest to see how many genre tropes he could stuff into one movie.

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