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Summary
- Malibu Horror Story is a found footage thriller directed by Scott Slone, featuring a unique structure and incorporating different perspectives and timelines.
- The film follows a team of paranormal investigators exploring the unresolved disappearance of four high school boys, uncovering a terrifying ancient curse.
- Audiences have responded positively to the film, with favorable reactions from film festivals, praising the unique structure, pacing, and creature work.
Malibu Horror Story could just be your new favorite found footage thriller. The project is an upcoming horror film written, directed, and produced by Scott Slone, who made the film as part of a ten-year journey involving 30 different cameras and multiple codecs. It’s a found footage movie, a genre of film that was spawned by The Blair Witch Project way back in 1999, and which people at one point thought was real, before exploding in popularity with the Paranormal Activity franchise. Check out the newly released trailer for Malibu Horror Story below:
Here’s a plot summary, courtesy of Bloody Disgusting:
“Malibu Horror Story follows a team of amateur paranormal investigators as they delve into a 10 year old unresolved case, the disappearance of four popular high school boys on graduation night. While exploring a sacred cave in the hills of Malibu California, the team encounters chilling paranormal occurrences. As they analyze footage from the missing teens’ camera, they make a terrifying discovery involving an ancient curse which forces them to confront their own worst fears and unravel the sinister truth behind the boys’ vanishing.”
The film stars Dylan Sprayberry, Robert Bailey Jr., Valentina de Angelis, and Rebecca Forsythe with a supporting cast consisting of Tommy Cramer, Veno Miller, Jacob Hughes, and Hector Gomez Jr. The film’s cast also includes two creature actors whose work you might be familiar with. There’s “Twisty” Troy James, who leant his contortionist abilities to the role of The Jangly Man in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. There’s also Douglas Tait, who played the Black Shuck in Annabelle Comes Home.
What Makes Malibu Horror Story Different?
Slone, a found footage fan, drew inspiration from Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield when crafting his own take on the found footage genre. Because he wanted to try to do something different from what audiences may be used to, Slone has played around with the format and structure of Malibu Horror Story. As part of that, Slone has incorporated many different perspectives into the film, some of which take place at a completely different time. As Slone explains it…
“Our story is told through different perspectives, timelines, and layers of media that were compiled over several years. The goal was to incorporate all of those elements and place them inside of a conventional horror movie structure that would not only appeal to found footage enthusiasts but to a broader horror audience as well.”
Audiences so far have responded favorably to Malibu Horror Story based on the reactions from various film festivals. In her review of the film for Panic Fest, Meagan Navarro wrote that “Slone’s unique structural approach, zippy pacing, and creature work push the needle forward slightly in found footage’s evolution.”
According to producer Andrew Williams, the filmmakers are very happy with the positive reception that Malibu Horror Story has gotten thus far.
“We are thrilled with the positive reception from fans and critics during our film festival run this past year, and the success has demonstrated that this is a horror movie made to be experienced in theaters, and we couldn’t be happier that we finally found the right partner with Iconic Events Releasing to help us bring it to the big screen.”
Malibu Horror Story will have a limited theatrical run October 20 thanks to Iconic Events Releasing.
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