Stranded in the suburbs, student filmmaker Chloe begins to make a documentary about her family's troubled past. Whilst filming, she and best friend Ed, witness an hysterical girl appearing to escape from a neighbour's house, only to be quickly dragged back inside again. Is she a recovering drug addict like the neighbours say? Or is she really in danger from those who claim to be caring for her?
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Seeds of dread are planted early on in this and you can feel then flowering throughout, till a third act where they’re fully flourished and the dread is unavoidable. A slow burn, and although likeable characters are a rarity in found-footage horrors, thanks to solid character-building (for once characters who don’t make obscene and idiotic decisions!!!) and performances, I was rooting for our main two, who go through a entirely harrowing and torturous ordeal to get to the bottom of their ominous neighbour’s sinister late-night conduct.
More of a foreboding disturbing mood-horror than out and out scary, with it’s grounded realism set pretty much all in a street in England adding a chill to the obliviousness of these neighbours potentially…
I enjoyed this far more than I was expecting considering I'm not big into cult stuff. It had some unsettling moments and was a rare horror where I actually liked the characters. Not the best but a solid little found footage horror.
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Day 15: Faerie rings and other things 🌲
(folk horror)
Channels that folk horror spirit and wears its influences on its sleeve. Slow burn, sufficiently sinister British found footage. Flower power, babes ✌🏻
“Yea, I took your apples bitch! And I ate them, haha!”
I love a good found footage and I love a good folk horror, and Webcast is both for the price of one. Save for the literal final minute abruptly raising more questions to undercut a perfectly good ending, I was very impressed and completely gripped by Paul McGhie’s directed/written/edited/DOP’d feature debut.
A student filmmaker is making a documentary with her boyfriend about her aunt’s mysterious disappearance years ago. One night while shooting, a bloodied woman runs screaming out of a neighbor’s house and is quickly pulled back inside, said to be a recovering addict. But the odd happenings only mount until Chloe and Ed find themselves in a hole of dark secrets and unnatural dread too deep to escape. Well-plotted…
What a smasher of a found footage.
I got frightened.
Chloe and Ed got in way too deep, and the people they messed with scared the hell out of me.
Keep your possessions as tightly to you as you can in this neighbourhood. I mean her sickness ew.
Loads of moments. The underground labyrinth, the piercing screaming, don't even with their naked bodies, and even more don't even with their flower masks.
Absolutely recommend.
It's so nice when you put on a found footage film and it's actually a real movie. There's a real script, real actors and real talent in front and behind the camera.
It was a great relief when I realized about ten minutes in, that this was going to tell a story. Not people dicking around for and hour, then getting scared and killed for the last half hour. There was real intrigue and character development. And though it's a little too obviously Hereditary inspired, I have a weakness for movies about witches, conspiracies and the found footage format, so I quite dug it.
The movie definitely has it's flaws, but it's well worth watching for any horror fan. But they really should have put a bit more thought into the bland title.
Surprising little found footage gem that I just heard about, and luckily found available to stream on Prime. A college student, Chloe, reconnects with a friend, Ed, to make a documentary about her aunt who went missing over 30 years ago. While filming one night, they are attacked by a young woman who had come out screaming from the neighbor's house. Chloe and Ed become convinced that the woman is being held against her will. The mystery of the girl next door doesn't mean an abandonment of solving the mystery of Chloe's missing aunt, though. As they investigate further, things get very creepy - and dangerous.
Love the folk horror element here. It's nice to watch a found footage movie that's not a knock off of other movies. The story went in unexpected directions, the lead actors were believable, and there were some great scary moments. Definitely recommend!
An unexpected folk horror I found lurking in the hidden recesses of Amazon prime. It's nice to see a folk revival in recent years and Webcast adopts its own fresh spin on the sub-genre. Good likable characters with an intriguing plot. The ending is nightmarish and slightly bat shit crazy and I'm living for it. The generic name does this film such a disservice and undoubtedly many people won't give it a second look as a result. It definitely deserves more than just a little over 200 (at the time of writing this) views!
This film spurred me to go on a little folk horror hype for the last few days and I'm having the best time.
And the third part of my “evil online cabals” triple feature with The Den and Unfriended: Dark Web. However this turned out to have little to do with them at all, a mistake of mine from the title and the little I knew about it. This is a British found footage effort about a woman named named Chloe (Samantha Redford) who enlists her best friend Ed’s (Joseph Tremain) help in creating a documentary about her family - specifically the disappearance of her aunt years before. But while they are working on that, a girl comes running out of their neighbors’ house begging for help. The neighbors and local doctor subdue her and explain that she is their niece and a…
hi welcome to my cult we’re called the Rainbow Flower Gang,
pussy so bomb you forgive the narcing and the assault
As a loyal disciple of Mike Simpson's Horror Film musings over at his site, his annual list of British genre movies always piques my interest, with a raft of things that have been released under the radar.
First up is WEBCAST, a decent and original found footage film - a genre of which I'm a persistent devotee. Its success lies primarily in the likability and realism of both Jospeh Tremain and Samantha Redford, our lead couple, Ed and Chloe, who suspect their neighbours are involved in the abduction of a teenage girl.
It probably won't terrify you, and nor will leave your fingernails bitten down to the nub, but as a low budget slice of of homegrown ingenuinty, it's both compelling and enjoyable.
If you're in the UK and an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can stream this as part of your package.
