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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like WNUF Halloween Special, this convincing broadcast-nightmare uses live-TV framing, escalating on-air unease, and period broadcasting texture to make its supernatural horror feel uncannily authentic.
02
Why this pick
Its faux-documentary investigation and public-access-TV texture create the same pleasure of piecing together a supposedly recovered media artifact while an amateur paranormal expedition turns increasingly ominous.
03
Why this pick
For the specifically 1980s Halloween-programming flavor, this offers glossy suburban occult comedy with a mischievous, escalating supernatural tone and an enjoyably heightened broadcast-era sensibility.
04
Why this pick
This meta faux-documentary follows filmmakers investigating an unsettling tape, echoing WNUF's affection for degraded media, local-access aesthetics, and the blurred boundary between paranormal lore and showmanship.
05
Why this pick
Structured as a breaking-news television special, it creates tension through anchors, eyewitness coverage, and simulated broadcast realism—the same format-first immersion that makes WNUF so distinctive.
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01 / THE STORY
The film presents itself as an off-air recording of television station WNUF's Halloween special that aired on October 31, 1987. The movie's main plot centers upon Frank Stewart (Paul Fahrenkopf), a television reporter that has decided to broadcast himself live as he and four other people (including the cameraman) investigate the Webber House, the site of the brutal murder of a husband and wife. Donald Webber, the suspected murderer and the couple's son, claims that he was commanded to murder his parents by demonic entities that he accidentally summoned using a Ouija board. Since that day, the house has been reported to be haunted and an anonymous police officer testifies that he and other fellow police officers have witnessed paranormal activity at the house. Frank initially treats the broadcast as a novelty, even going so far as to dismiss the concerns of paranormal investigators Louis and Claire Berger (Brian St. August and Helenmary Ball), as Claire immediately states that the house contains a menacing presence and that they are in danger as long as they are in the house. He tries to dissuade fears by bringing in Father Joseph Matheson (Robert Long II), who Frank claims is versed in Exorcism in the Catholic Church, despite the priest's assertion that he only has a perfunctory knowledge of the rites and has never actually performed an exorcism.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Gavin Gordon
