J.B. Spins

When the original Blair Witch Project released, it inspired teenaged Matthew Nichols and his friend Jordan Reimer to make their own DIY horr...

In Larkin, Texas, social life largely revolves around the church and the barbecue roadhouse. It is about as red as the meat proprietor Winst...

Emily Wyland should leave family reunions to the Waltons and awkward family documentaries to Sarah Polley. Instead, she drags her camera guy...

Chase Bradner wants to be an indie auteur, but his first movie will be a rip-off of The Blair Witch Project and the “Patterson-Gimlin” foota...

Most of the conspiracy theories involving the CIA are complete nonsense. Sadly, they have proved so bad at keeping their secrets, most of th...

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is famous as one of the locations used for The Shining . Yet, it still regularly hosts weddings, so plans t...

If you know smart people, you write about smart people. If you are familiar with the associates of Jenni Farley, a.k.a. “JWoww” on The Jerse...

Thanks to the collector market, they are making small-batch limited-runs of new VHS tapes again. That is good news for this franchise. In ad...

Unlike his successors, The Tonight Show during the Johnny Carson era really was a show for everyone. He regularly featured jazz musicians,...

Different house, same hell. All the scary stuff happening at the Abaddon Hotel was apparently related to the tragedy that occurred in this R...

People did not overshare in the 1980s, except for characters in indie films, who liked to keep video diaries. You could argue the V/H/S foun...

They are partially inspired by the Mitford Sisters (especially Diana, the one who married Oswald Mosley), but initially their ideologies are...

History students should appreciate found footage horror, because it is told entirely through supposed primary sources—as primary (and often ...

It is a hoax or maybe a hoax of a hoax. There’s too much that doesn’t add up, but it is one of the most convincing found footage films...

How do you make found footage even more annoying? Adding 3D ought to do the trick (and vice versa). Granted, it would be hard to explain...

Vampires are finally getting more media savvy. They will invite a TV news crew into the home of a respected member of their underground c...

It would sort of be like collecting some of the orange carpeting from The Shining or the puzzle box from Hellraiser , except the grave of...

The serial killer now calling himself Aaron (in honor of a recent victim) has always been somewhat prone to New Agey Deepak Chopra psycho...

In the 1970s, consumer 8mm was largely for A-V geeks. Most of them were not aspiring indie filmmakers. Instead, they used the format to d...

This is one area where it is definitely more socially favorable to receive rather than give. Most folks can accept the healthy catharsis ...