Review of The Final Project (2016) by The All-Seeing I — 11 Jan 2019

For those unfamiliar, "Found Footage" films are as the name implies: films put together on the basis that their fictional characters find or are in the process of using a camera through which the resulting footage drives the storytelling.

With The Final Project, Taylor Ri'chard evokes the glory days of this genre made mainstream following the turn of the millennium (see: The Blair Witch Project). Ri'chard cleverly manipulates the format with point-and-shoot-style camera play as we observe a collection of collegians exploring a haunted house.

The Final Project melds evocations of the supernatural with time-tested horror elements and voyeuristic camera work. The chemistry realized by its characters is also present and accounted for in this indie, which ultimately succeeds at building and holding its push-and-pull tension as it winds us toward its surprising ending.