Untitled 10.29.mp4 (2023) is a found-footage horror short created as part of the Fall 48 Film Festival in Moscow, Idaho, where filmmakers are given just 48 hours to conceptualize, write, shoot, and complete a film around a certain topic and genre. The film follows a group of high school friends who decide to spend the night inside a town cinema rumored to be haunted, armed only with curiosity and a camera to document the experience. What begins as a playful attempt to explore the cinema after hours transforms into something far more unsettling as the group pushes further into the theater’s darkened cellar. Through handheld footage and fragmented conversation the group begins to come to terms with an energy that is malignant beyond all reason. 

The film leans into the raw immediacy that defines the found footage genre. Spontaneous reactions splitter the rhythm of friendship transforms a center for entertainment into a prison of echoing darkness. And as the night unfolds before the camera’s perspective, curiosity turns to terror as the group begins to understand why the rumors have long plagued the property.

At its heart, Untitled 10.29.mp4 captures the spirit of young filmmakers experimenting with storytelling under tight creative constraints. The 48-hour format lends the project an organic, almost documentary-like quality, where spontaneity and collaboration become central to the film’s identity. The atmosphere builds through sound, expression, and the unspoken fear of what lies at the bounds of the darkness. 

Film Comparisons : [The Blair Witch Project (1999)] x [Creep (2014)] x [Paranormal Activity (2007)]