'The Unfolding' (2016) – Eugene McGing.
A young telegenic couple fatefully visit a historically haunted house eerily situated in deepest, darkest Dartmoor, and fairly swiftly into their overnight stay in this creepily dilapidated domicile, this low budget found footage farrago goes full Blumhouse with murderously wayward cutlery, gratuitous usage of hectic infrared footage, cold spots, ghostly midnight gutturals, irksomely jittery photography, anguished spirits, and a dotty, spook-wrangling medium, all guaranteeing that there are no haunted house clichés unutilized, and no Jump-scares un-jumped in 'The Unfolding'. While avid FF freaks might get a cheap frisson out of this noisome nocturnal nonentity, I found it derivative, contrived, persistently shrill, and demonstratively lacking in the requisite skewed imagination to generate any tangible shocks; sadly, this was just another Found Footage quickie overwrought with boorish Blumhouse cliché.
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