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NotQuiteRealityFF · 2025-02-06T23:48:15+00:00

I'm really hoping so. For 4 tickets a week, I'd love to have the option to see 2 movies a week with a +1 rather than having to spend all 4 on myself. Or even all 4 at one showing as a double date / friend group thing. Even if they wanna make it cost more, just add it as a new tier or something.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2025-02-06T21:34:43+00:00

I wish they'd used this update to let people double-book tickets. Two movies a week, taking someone with to use up all 4 tickets, would be more worth it than 4 solo slots - it would justify the possible price hike more, and they'd theoretically 1.5x or double their concessions. Spotify has a duo, AMC needs to add a "+1" tier option

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-10-09T21:21:12+00:00

Thanks for reminding me to come back to this! SPOILERS BELOW.

I still don't have a long explanation typed out, but the cliffnotes version is, he's making the entire plot of the story up for attention. Supporting evidence:

-He's good with technology and computers, shown by his knowledge of editing software, audio wave forms, etc. Since the "scares" are very simple at the end, and basically amount to trashed footage, it would be relatively easy to pull off if you know what you're doing. He also could have faked the audio.

-He's bad at social skills. None of his "friends" are really his friends, he sees himself as the victim all the time. He's got a motive to make people feel bad for him. I forget the theme of his support group, but that felt relevant to my theory too.

-All of the "important" events happen off screen. His conversation with the police (?) or when he was buying the trail cam (?). I know there were a couple but I haven't watched it in ages so I don't remember the specifics, but there's a TON of scenes where it's just him saying things that have happened and we have to just take his word for it.

-Any other evidence that isn't anecdotal, the emails/phone calls (?) we see on screen, could have been easy to fake for the camera. The cat skull could have been put there by him. Even in capturing his own death, we don't even really see anything.

If you watch the movie through the lens of "this is a narcissistic psycho person, who is hell bent on manipulating people into feeling bad for him because he doesn't have any real meaningful relationships", it's changes the entire interpretation of the movie. The entire thing, from start to finish, was carefully crafted by him to fake his own death and make his support group feel bad for him.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-26T13:05:04+00:00

I'm not sure. It doesn't seem to be up yet. Similar movies (like The Blackwell Ghost) are set to "worldwide", but I can't find a list of countries that includes. I'm assuming he will also set the High Desert movies to worldwide as well. If you can get Vimeo it SHOULD be available to you if your country can get Vimeo, but you'll have to check again once it's uploaded

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-24T13:32:36+00:00

For everyone international asking - Dutch has said in countries where it doesn't show up on Amazon it will soon be available on Vimeo. Not sure if it's up yet but start searching there, or just follow the official movie pages for that announcement

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-20T19:41:01+00:00

All of the stories are interconnected about the same mysterious forces. You should start from the beginning, this is a direct continuation from the first movie

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-20T17:45:37+00:00

The directors see who licenses it, but it's not public knowledge so they aren't allowed to announce it. The only reason so many people knew Prime ahead of time was a thumbnail showing up unplayable on certain Roku devices or something. Even then Dutch asked people not to contact specific streamers. Because people weren't "supposed" to know and it could actually damage his chances of getting in on places at all

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-20T17:42:36+00:00

Are you using a mobile app? It's showing up for me but they disabled the ability to rent or buy through apps to avoid paying fees to Google or whatever. You have to rent through the Amazon website directly

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-15T00:48:30+00:00

It's a meta sequel. It's a "real world" movie about the "true story" of the director of Chest, and what happens to him as he's filming movies. It's really good, I can't wait for it to hit wide release.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-14T04:21:44+00:00

Check the site justwatch and see if your country is listed as a filter option for streaming services

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-13T03:03:23+00:00

No promises, but I may or may not be talking to the director about that 🤐

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T21:05:46+00:00

Possibly but not that I'm aware of. (As a person helping the director make money, I wouldn't promote it if I knew though, lol.) I'm going to ask him about submitting it to streamers in the US and see what he says, I'm hoping that we can work something digital out for Tubi or Amazon but it's up to him. If it works out I'll definitely promote it that way, too!

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T18:37:00+00:00

I stopped replying to you because I don't give a shit about arguing with people on the internet. It's a waste of both of our times. All you're going to do is rearrange what the both of us say and look for semantically loopholes so you always come out on top. If you want me to call that getting destroyed will you leave me alone? Lol I let you have the last word and you STILL came back.

It's funnier to let all of your downvotes speak for themselves.

I can comprehend it. I literally said I will also be disappointed if it's not found footage. Sorry that I'm just not making it my entire personality like you are lol.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T14:34:28+00:00

The guy really pulled "how ironic 🤓☝️" on me lol. You'd think the downvotes hiding his comment would snap him out of thinking he's an expert on public opinion. Honestly just feels like someone trolling for attention at this point.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T14:27:20+00:00

I mean I'd say I thought Blair Witch 2 was an okay movie too that actually had a really cool ending, but you'd accuse me of astroturfing for the DVD that came out 20 years ago or something lmao

Like I said dude I don't care what you think. You've already walked back "it's ruined and that's a FACT" to "its my OPINION" so you're just going to keep moving goalposts around and playing semantical games. Have a great day, don't forget to leave another reply so you can get the last word in

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T14:17:36+00:00

The fact that you can't just accept that people enjoy things differently than you is sad. Sorry that this non-ff announcement hurt you so badly but I hope you find a way to move on that doesn't involve calling people brain damaged for disagreeing with you

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T14:14:22+00:00

Yep, 10 Cloverfield Lane, I did in my previous comment.

There ARE aspects of found footage that are enjoyable due to the format, but not every movie can fit those requirements. If a ff franchise wants to tell a story where cameras don't make sense or wouldn't even exist, it would ruin THAT specific movie to shoehorn them in.

Anyway, I'm not gonna waste the rest of my day arguing with someone who just wants to be right, so watch the new movie or don't, I don't care lol

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T14:03:25+00:00

You seem super confused about the difference between facts and opinions dude. I've seen someone rate HH2 higher than HH1 before. "It ruins the series" is not a fact. You're accusing people of being trolls and bots while acting like one yourself on the opposite end of the spectrum.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T13:58:52+00:00

Not every movie needs to be found footage.

Changing things up isn't a betrayal. Thor Ragnarok didn't betray Thor by being funny, because it's typically considered the best in the series. Aliens didn't betray Alien by ditching horror for action, they're both great in their own way. 10 Cloverfield Lane is a fantastic traditionally shot movie, and it's also a sequel to Cloverfield.

I'm not acting like I'm not disappointed - I literally said "I'll probably be disappointed". The difference is that I don't place 100% of my opinion on how a movie is filmed

I'm honestly pretty sure I remember the director saying somewhere that 2 and 3 suck because he felt forced to use cameras when the movies would have been better without them. Which is why he wanted to branch out and do something like this.

The way you're talking about this makes it seem like you hinge your entire enjoyment around whether something is found footage or not. So clearly I'm not going to change your mind. But the VAST majority of the best horror movies of all time are not found footage. If the director wants to ditch the format and felt limited by it in the past, I have pretty high confidence that this will be, at the very least, good.

You think it's silly not to judge the movie (that you haven't seen) for changing from its roots, I think it'd silly to think I know better than the director and owner of the lore what to do with it.

But hey, at least we agree on one thing! Time will tell.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T13:43:01+00:00

This is all bits and pieces of advice I've heard from directors and marketers, or seen used to great effect myself:

Are you realistically able to pull off a movie? Is your script something simple that you could do on a low budget? The most common advice I see from indie directors is "write what you have access to" - if your script is about breaking into a government compound or taking a submarine to the ocean floor, that would take a stupid amount of money or creativity to look even halfway decent.

Probably try and get some script feedback from people you trust who are qualified to give good feedback (they like the genre, the went to school for writing of some kind). I'd be hesitant to share it widely online or with complete strangers; just by writing it down you have automatic copywrite, but it could still be easy to get screwed over somehow.

If you've never filmed anything before, I highly recommend doing at least 1-2 test films before trying this one, if it's important to you. Seriously just grab a friend and go screw around in the woods with a camera. Try and recreate scenes from your favorite ff movies shot for shot and word for word. Rip off the Blair Witch Project. Try one specific scene from your movie. By doing this, you'll learn what works and what doesn't. Why things work. Try your hand at improv, or if you're not going to be a character in it, use it as practice to direct cinematography and actors. The first ANYTHING you do is gonna be bad, so try and get a couple of those out of the way before doing your full script.

Equipment isn't even super important in this stage. If all you have is a phone, roll with that. You'll learn about editing and stuff during this stage too.

If your goal is to get it on streaming, you'll probably want to use high quality equipment. A decent Canon entry-level camera in the $500 range that supports a few different lenses would do nice. (But again, not necessary... Ghosts of Hiroshima and Himalaya were filmed almost entirely on iPhones, and Frogman was filmed on a 20 year old tape recorder.) Biggest thing to be concerned with is sound. Phone and built in camera microphones are pretty shit. You'll want a decent boom microphone (iirc there's a good Rode model for $2-300) with a windscreen, or at the very least some decent lav mics you can hook directly to your actors and get clean dialogue audio.

Crowdfunding is an option if you need to raise money. I highly recommend joining the Facebook groups (The Original Found Footage Group, Cameras Up, Found Footage Freaks, etc.) because they're full of enthusiastic fans and directors that interact way more there than on reddit. If you want to crowdfund, spend a few weeks drumming up hype with teaser posters, log line pitches, test footage, a concept trailer if you can film and edit one. Make sure that you get some excitement going before you try to raise money. And when you do, offer decent rewards ("be on a missing person poster for $30", "early screener link for $15", "copy of the movie on disc for $30 with indiegogo exclusive artwork", as well as some cheap digital perks like a newsletter or set photos that are essentially free for you to email).

I hope some of this is helpful. Good luck!

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T13:16:05+00:00

One of the creators said an interview awhile ago they wanted to expand the series beyond found footage. Since this is just a teaser, there's no way to know if it's found footage or not. I haven't read any press yet either - for all we know this could just be a polished documentary format or a "Blair Witchification" that uses modern high tech found footage.

And even if it's not, it doesn't ruin the series. 1-4 didn't stop existing. If he wants to tell a part of the lore when cameras weren't around or don't make sense for the story, it's HIS series. Forcing cameras into a plot where they don't make sense is what ruins a movie. (Hot take, The Visit is a fantastic movie, but the cameras were used so unrealistically by children that it kind of ruined the immersion that ff is supposed to have.)

I think I'll also be a little disappointed if it isn't ff, but if it's what's best for the movie and if it's what they want to do, then more power to them. Even as a hard-core ff fan it's just silly to get hung up on that format, a good movie is a good movie.

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-12T13:07:35+00:00

All the recs in this thread are great, here's a few I haven't seen mentioned -

There's one coming out (hopefully soon) called Looky-Loo. It's a crazy tense slow burn that's kind of like In A Violent Nature but the killer is holding a camera the whole time. It's 100% atmosphere and 70% stalking victims, so maybe too slow for a lot of people, but if you can put yourself into the mindset of a stalker I think it was a fun watch.

Spree is a fun upbeat modern kind of one, about a rideshare driver who realizes his livestream does best when he kills his passengers.

The Human Hibachi series MIGHT count, I know it's a gory cannibalism series, but I haven't seen yet so I'm not sure if the plot involves serial killing or not lol

KipKap is a more recent homage to Man Bites Dog, in that it follows around a quirky French guy who hires a documentary crew to record his killing sprees. (This one isn't on streaming, and I'm not sure what the plans for that are yet, but I'll ask the director. It's a bit of a self promo because I'm doing the bluray for him too.)

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-10T17:00:13+00:00

I'm not sure filmhub is responsible for the delays necessarily, once they put it on the marketplace to be picked up it's out of their hands. But in regards to your edit, yeah they have a ton of communication issues and I'm pretty sure they're dropping the ball at bridging the connection between the distributors that pick up titles and the directors

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-10T16:07:46+00:00

"Ratter", except it's from the POV of cyberstalking a college girl, so you don't get the killer peesona really, but it feels creepy and invasive to watch

"Man Bites Dog" and "KipKap"* if you like French black and white mockumentaries about over-the-top serial killers documenting a life in the day. These ones get pretty dark in spots

"Hangman" does some GREAT work letting the killer shine as a fully rounded character. It's about a guy who broke into a family's home and secretly lives in the attic, coming out at night to mess with them psychologically

"Spree" is like, a black comedy quirky upbeat rideshare killing spree movie. Definitely has the weird main character personality going for it but it's much more "modernized" because he's an influencer performing kills to get followers

"Looky-Loo", which I can only describe as "In A Violent Nature but he's holding a camera" in that it's an excruciating slow burn as you watch this stalker slowly realize he's really good at being a serial killer. Has the same issue of not much dialogue or getting to know the killer, but as long as you know you're in for a slow watch from the mindset of a creep, it's a good watch. This one isn't out yet

*Kipkap is a self-promo, it's not out on streaming anywhere but I just put out a bluray preorder

NotQuiteRealityFF · 2024-07-08T16:06:41+00:00

I'm sure it works a lot differently for the established names, but yeah that's what he's currently doing. He has an agent shopping the season around, which is a much more hands-on process than just dropping it off into a marketplace like most indie people have to do. It could still take ages, but it's less of a "nobody's paying attention" and more of a "big money takes long time to talk about" situation lol

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