As far as found footage movies go, this one is unique enough that I feel a strong liking for it. The premise is that a group of friends are renting a Winnebago a riding all over Texas (I believe) to visit the most extreme haunted houses set up for Halloween. They are recording the whole thing and basically looking for something off the charts scary. When they offend a couple of the workers at one haunted house, their camper gets vandalized and they start noticing some of the same performers popping up at different locations. All of this is in service of finding a private invite only spookhouse that is so scary it changes locations every year. And of course, they find it. Fun ensues.
What I dug about this is they filmed inside several real, functioning haunted attractions for the first half of the movie. You almost get a documentary style look at how the houses are run and what sorts of people they attract. For found footage premises, it has one of the stronger hooks I've seen. Of course, by the end you know you are purely in horror movie land but the first person aspect keeps things as fresh and immediate as a real funhouse.
I'm not saying this is groundbreaking horror or anything but they put some effort into the production and I appreciate it. You could do worse than this one.
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