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Jeremy (Jeremy Schuetze), a struggling filmmaker, invites his girlfriend Antonia (Antonia Thomas) and his best friend Matt (Matt Visser) and Matt's girlfriend Jesse (Jesse Stanley) to his (deceased) grandfather's cabin deep in the woods for a bit of partying - oh, and to shoot a movie, which is why he brings a camera man (Ben Gulliver) and a sound fuy (Alonso Lizano Arellano) along for the ride. At first, he claims it's just a documentary about Antonia, an up-and-coming young actress, but secretly he wants to turn this trip into a horror movie, which is why he starts playing sick pranks on the others, like hiding a dead cat in the freezer. Thing is, eventually things spiral out of control when Jesse starts sleepwalking, speaking in strange tongues and eventually suffering a seizure. But things come to a head when Jeremy insists on a hike to a haunted crypt deep in the woods, and his schemes of manipulation get the friends into actual danger ...

Now I've never been and will never be the biggest fan of the found footage approach, as it all too often feels more like a short cut than an actual creative choice. However, Anacoreta properly embeds the technique into the narrative as it is about an obsessive filmmaker actually making a found footage film. And sure, the film would have profited from more cinematic editing and camerawork, but on the other hand it's nicely structured, doesn't rely on improvised dialogue (a letdown of many a found footage film) and the performances are all solid. So in all, this has turned out to be a really nice genre ride for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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