Fantastic Fest Sparks SHELBY OAKS: Behind the Film’s Journey
Watch FANGORIA's interview with NEON's found footage film SHELBY OAKS at Fantastic Fest 2025.
SHELBY OAKS returns to Fantastic Fest — where its haunting journey first began.
From a ringside pitch at Fantastic Fest in 2019 to a record-breaking Kickstarter and a NEON-backed release, SHELBY OAKS has traveled a long, eerie road. In this conversation with FANGORIA, the cast and director Chris Stuckmann recount the film’s origins, its Paranormal Paranoids ARG, and the love-and-loss themes that fuel its found footage horror.
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