Halloween Picks:The WNUF Halloween Special

It’s another Halloween season and WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS!!!

That’s right, If you were watching last season We began a new Format for HauntShooter where I have been fortunate to have my friends along my side and naturally as always my longtime (and Suffering) producer Anjanette is by my side and we are also joined by Bri in this new venture that we are going on.  

                                                  

I am very happy with the direction that I am going in this business venture and I am pleased for the results.

Along with Hatch and Craven’s Slaughterhouse we have shot The Dark Path Haunt as well as The Texas Scaregrounds and we are traveling to shoot other Haunts and Events to come this season.

I also have a passion for my Ipad and I have been able to check out some flicks around the net for the upcoming Halloween flicks.

While I concluded my Halloween pick series I plan on continuing in giving all of you anything I see that I think that you may like. There are movies being made everyday and many of them are destined to become classics.

Now many of you know that I am a massive fan of the Found Footage genre and most of it’s films and there are many different types and then this film is in a different class all together.

The WNUF Halloween special has been out for a couple of years but I have only just now been able to check it out.  

Now this flick is a guilty pleasure for me as I had heard the hype on the internet with many of my movie blogging brethren singing the praises of the originality of the flick and I have to agree with them.

Now this is not a Found Footage flick it takes the form of a recorded event on Halloween night that we are being showcased by an unknown presenter. This presenter is frequently fastforwards this special through commercials and news packages that they aren’t interested in.

The flick at first show a Halloween night newscast where the anchors feature stories related to Halloween during the satanic panic of the late 1980s. All the while the anchors are promoting the following Halloween special which is conducting a séance at a local haunted house.

Well as you can guess things go array for the broadcast.

Shot on video and made to look like an old vhs recording the film also features recreations of small time commercials that were frequent at the time and are clearly the subject of parody and add to the comedy of the film but is often used to break the tension going on in the film and sometimes I have to wonder if this is a good thing.

There are a few predictable twists but it is still worth a look for the originality of it’s direction.

5 Dead Bodies

0 Breasts

3 Beasts

1 Dead Cat

Cheesy Commercials

Bad news anchors

2 Stars

Check it out.