Paranormal Investigators

“Hey, you got your homicidal devil worshippers in my found footage horror film!” “Hey, you got your shaky-cam scares in my Satanic Panic documentary.” If this creepy mash-up sounds like your kind of movie madness, then The Devil’s Well from writer/director Kurtis Spieler is waiting for you to explore it’s murky depths, if you dare. With the rise of Blumhouse Pictures horror franchises like Sinister, Insidious and Annabelle, it seems like the Paranormal Activity style of found footage films that made the company profitable has been banished to the cornfield. But Wide Eye releasing is going back to the well, if you’ll forgive the pun, to see if mixing the faux documentary style made famous by The Blair Witch Project with a Rosemary’s Baby demon darkness can send a tingle up our collective spines. While the poster for The Devil’s Well will most likely cause flashbacks to Naomi Watts in The Ring, there’s no haunted video tapes here, just good old fashioned unsolved mysteries and local legends. The basics of the film’s