When you watch the new trailer for director Chris Lofing‘s upcoming indie horror Stage Fright, you may forget that you’re actually watching what will eventually be a complete movie. The confusion, of course, is derived from the fact that the trailer may take the ‘found footage’ gimmick — which has popped up so frequently in movies as of late, regardless of whether it’s an effective device — and beat it into the ground with all the force of a jackhammer.
That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with what’s going on in the trailer for the spooky thriller, which tells the story of four high schoolers locked in their school’s theater, where a freak accident during a school play claimed a student’s life 25 years earlier. The plot sounds intriguing enough, but the real curiosity of the trailer is the (excessive?) use of news segments and interviews that take the already meta-genre to an entirely new level of abstraction. There’s a movie within a movie, but is that what this movie is about? Confusion!
Check out the trailer below, and let us know in the comments whether you think there may be a bit too much found in this footage.
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