Fantastic Fest Review: What Happened to Dorothy Bell?

Found footage horror is a chill burn, not a run through the woods

Found footage horror and urban legends are kin. Both rely on the idea that there’s veracity to a clearly ridiculous spooky tale, simply by virtue of the simplicity of the retelling. In found footage, it’s the roughness of unedited footage, whereas urban legends don’t need a sparkling narrative because they’re from a friend of a friend of a cousin.so coolly fascinating is that it melds the two, and adds a more sinister binding.

Found footage has often been inaccurately described as a way to make a small budget go a long way, but that may well be the case here. With a tiny cast and a couple of locations , Villaneuva only drops in a couple of jump scares to play into horror tropes. They may be the weakest elements – a couple will get garner gasps from the audience, while one or two are weakened by rough CGI - but even they do not detract from this mournful descent into hell.

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