Neon doubled the budget of 'Shelby Oaks' by Chris Stuckmann to have “greek and violence'

Chris Stuckmannthe youtuber known for horror cinema fans for its platform channel, will debut as a screenwriter and feature film director with the horror project Shelby Oaksacquired by NEON (Aor, The Monkey, Longlegs), for distribution in theaters of the United States in the summer of 2024.

Shelby Oaks es described as a crossing found footage and documentarycon Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter), Brendan Sexton III (Don’t Breathe 2), y Sarah Durn (Where the Crawdads Sing) heading the cast.

The most recent novelties confirm that Neon set the premiere of Shelby Oaks By October 3, 2025in US cinemas.

And not just that.

According to indiewire reports, The horror project underwent three -day reshoots last March, with the purpose of having “GORE AND VIOLENCE.”

The cast and the team were in Cleveland, Ohio, working on a redesigned sound study and inside the prison/royal museum of Shawshank Redemption.

The plot:

“Follow a woman named Mia (Sullivan) while frantically looking for her sister Riley (Durn), who disappeared sinisterly in the last film of her research series, 'Paranormal Paranoids'.”

The production was possible thanks to Stuckman starting a Kickstarter campaign in 2022 to raise funds to carry out the film, managing to collect an amount of $ 1.4 million dollars in less than a month, making it the horror film with more financial funds in the history of Kickstarter.

The support of Executive Producer Mike Flanagan, Stuckmann's mentor for years was also indispensable.

After its projections in Fantasia Fest and Frightfest in 2024, the source explains that Neon injected the project from a “Non -revealed amount of supplementary financing” that allowed Stuckmann “Intensify violence and gore.”

“Estimates from several anonymous sources close to production suggest that funds injection could almost double its original budget.Shelby Oaks He had a second campaign for the collection of ongoing funds through the website of the filmmakers, which ended earlier this month). ”

“We were able to resume the film in a couple of key moments and enhance some particularly bloody elements”Said Stuckmann in a video. “I have no words to describe how unpublished this is for an independent filmmaker.”

Stuckmann produced the feature film with Aaron B. Koontz, Ashleight Snead, and Cameron Burns for Paper Street Pictures. Executive producers include Trevor Macy and Melinda Nishioka of Intrepid Pictures, with Mike Flanagan, Adam F. Goldberg, Paul Holbrook, Sean E. Demott, and Tony Killoough.

The producer, Aaron Koontz, told Indiewire about the Reshoots:

“We sent materials to neon and saw the movie. They loved it, and we were very happy with what we showed in fantasy. But when Neon read the script and reviewed it, they realized that there were scenes that we did not film and moments that we had to moderate because we could not achieve them with the available budget. They said: 'Would you have liked to do that if you could?

The study also made two important hiring: the editor Brett W. Bachman (Companion) for a “new edition and polished,” and the actor Derek Mearsknown for playing Jason Voorhees in the 2009 reboot of Friday the 13thin an unphewed role.

On his collaboration with Neon, the producer said:

“Right now I would sign a contract with Neon to make all Paper Street Pictures films with them forever. In an instant, without even blinking. They are phenomenal. They are not part of the Hollywood machinery. Really. They are oblivious to it. They fulfill what they promise. They are excellent commissioners. They understand the good independent cinema. They understand it.”

So they have it there. The expected Shelby Oaks will debut in American cinemas on October 3. It remains to know who will distribute in our market.