"Shelby Oaks" is the professional feature debut of YouTube-based film critic Chris Stuckmann. Film critics making movies of their own can go any number of ways. The best case scenario gives you Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and the rest of the "Cahiers du Cinema" team leading the French New Wave; the worst case scenario gives you the Nostalgia Critic's anniversary movies; and the weirdest case scenario gives you Roger Ebert writing the screenplay for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and other X-rated exploitation films for Russ Meyer.
Stuckmann raised $1.4 million on Kickstarter for this horror film, and his work ethic impressed Mike Flanagan, director of many memorable horror films and series , to the point where Flanagan joined the project as an executive producer. Neon picked up