Seekers (2016) – Michael Effenberger.

Seek and ye shall find (footage!).

Four film-making buddies, along with cameraman Martin plan to capture their 'Geocaching' escapades in a documentary, hoping to locate all the 'caches' hidden deep within remote locations in doable Teutonic Found Footage Horror Seekers. The intrepid German Geocachers vanish without trace, their fates digitally documented on twitchy-cam. At this point the genre should be hereby known as Familiar Footage, especially since director Effenberger adheres so dogmatically to the expected schematic norms. I maintain a fondness for German-speaking Indie horror, and the said Found Footage is only ever as credible as the spooksome quality of fear footage captured herein. In Seekers favour, the youthful protagonists prove affable enough, and I greatly enjoy films that feature train journeys, and the vast magisterial splendour of the forest ably provides for an appealing, naturally atmospheric backdrop. The shock tropes do take a wee while to percolate, but the director's winning choice of location proves to be a suitably eerie canvas to frantically unleash his formalised terror tactics. For me, Seekers is a watchable Found Footage oner, but my positive take may, perhaps, not mirror the general consensus.