Fresh off its stellar box office for Osgood Perkins horror Longlegs, Neon has acquired worldwide rights to the upcoming documentary-found footage crossover Shelby Oaks, written and directed by filmmaker and YouTube creator Chris Stuckmann.
Stuckmann’s debut film will have its world premiere at Fantasia Festival on Saturday.
Launched from a 2022 Kickstarter campaign which raised $1.39M for the film in under a month – the most-funded horror film ever on Kickstarter – Shelby Oaks follows Mia (Sullivan) as she frantically searches for her sister Riley (Durn), who ominously disappeared in the last tape of her investigative series, ‘Paranormal Paranoids’.
The film stars Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2) and Sarah Durn (Where the Crawdads Sing). Producers are Stuckmann, Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleigh Snead, and Cameron Burns for Paper Street Pictures.
Executive producers are Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka for Intrepid Pictures with Mike Flanagan, Adam F. Goldberg, Paul Holbrook, Sean E. DeMott and Tony Killough. Neon will release the film theatrically in the U.S. and handle international sales.
The deal was negotiated by Neon’s Vice President of Acquisitions & Production Jason Wald with Paper Street Pictures’ CEO Aaron B. Koontz on behalf of the filmmakers.
NEON most recently acquired the North American rights to Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, U.S. rights to Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey starring Theo James, and the worldwide rights to Osgood Perkins’ Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland. They also nabbed North American rights to Julia Ducournau’s Alpha and The Unknown from Arthur Harari.
Neon’s horror film Longlegs released in theaters last weekend to a historic $22M opening.
