Stephen Cognetti directs Gore Abrams, Alice Bahlke and Danny Bellini in this found footage horror where a group of entrepreneurs organise a scare event in a genuinely demonic hotel.

They use the shaky camera to hide the lurking evil not cheap or uninspired filmmaking here. Quite a decent mockumentary horror with a complex lore, effective jump scares and one stand out creepy sequence involving a demon crawling under the covers at you. The nondescript characters are very annoying and if there is one sub genre of horror I have little patience for it is the found footage cul-de-sac.

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Perfect Double Bill: Lake Mungo (2008)

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