Straight out of West Virginia University, comes a new found footage horror movie called Project Butterfly: Flatwoods. From director Samuel Felinton, a student at the West Virginia University, along with his fellow students in this student-led production, Project Butterfly: Flatwoods is, as mentioned, a found footage horror film set during the lunar eclipse of 2004, in Flatwoods, West Virginia, and follows three students who are filming a school project centered around an investigation that eventually leads them to a government bunker connected to cryptid experimentation. The further the students dig, the more they uncover the terrifying truths of this bunker, and are soon hunted by various entities such as Indrid Cold and the Flatwoods Monster…
Felinton, the aforementioned director of the project, is a student at West Virginia and is a West Virginia native through and through, hailing from Huntington, West Virginia. Felinton has quite a few films already under his belt, which is enormously impressive considering he is still in college and is barely in his twenties. Felinton’s previous work includes The Death of Film, an animated film using the assistance of AI that explores the slow erosion of analog art forms, and which is technically the second-longest film ever made at 856 hours long (!). You read that right, my jaw was also on the floor for that one. Just in case you were wondering, that’s a movie that’s runtime is roughly 36 days.
Felinton and his classmates who worked on that project reportedly donated the funds made from the film to charity, specifically the Animation Guild, which is a really cool thing. Felinton’s other credits include As the Sunflower Whispers, which is a documentary about Ukrainian refugees and the human cost of displacement, Camera Roll, another found footage horror movie, and Worlds Beneath our Hands, another experimental documentary celebrating the art of scenic painting. Among other works, Felinton has already notched a bunch of projects up on his filmography, and with the release of his latest, Project Butterfly: Flatwoods coming soon, I’d imagine he’s not slowing down anytime soon…
Go check out Project Butterfly: Flatwoods on Halloween night and show some support for our next generation of filmmakers. Not only is Flatwoods an incredibly cool premise for a found footage film, as it reminds me a little bit of Renny Harlin’s Devil’s Pass, which has a similar premise, but Felinton has been putting in the work, and I for one am excited to follow him along throughout his career…
See Project Butterfly: Flatwoods on Halloween Night!
