INTERVIEW: ‘Shelby Oaks’ Star Sarah Durn Unpacks Playing Riley Brennan In Chris Stuckmann’s Horror Film

INTERVIEW: ‘Shelby Oaks’ Star Sarah Durn Unpacks Playing Riley Brennan In Chris Stuckmann’s Horror Film

Sarah Durn discusses her role as Riley Brennan in Shelby Oaks, Chris Stuckmann’s Kickstarter-backed horror film.

Shelby Oaks review – Successfully branching out

Horror is probably the genre that puts filmgoers’ patience to the ultimate test. This is due to its wide quality spectrum. When a horror movie is bad, it can be hilariously or catastrophically bad. Good horror can either be great or just plain good, with originality, fear factor, and/or execution sustaining that watchability. Shelby Oaks is best described as “baby’s first good horror”. While it’s nothing revolutionary in storytelling, and boasts…

Shelby Oaks Review: A Blair Witch Project That Misses The Mark

A found footage movie in 2025? Shelby Oaks attempts to elicit the same scares as those that came before it but it ends up missing the mark with a lackluster script and an evil entity that gets way too much screen time to be frightening.  Shelby Oaks Review In 1999, The Blair Witch Project put the found footage genre on the map. Everyone was talking about it and being from the DC area, I knew the details that inspired it which made it slightly mo…