This "movie" is about an hour long so it barely qualifies as a feature (back in the day, it would be a fine running length, and that day was in the 1930s). The movie stars a young producer of zombie films who has decided to go into documentary film making by tackling ghosts as his first subject. I genuinely forget the guys name and I think it is by design we might never learn it. Anyway, the director is very excited by a video he has found on youtube about a ghost trashing a hotel room. He goes so far as to get in touch with the guy who posted it to youtube and asks if it is real, to which the youtuber says, "Of course!" And then years or just months pass with no further activity until he finds some footage in an online ghost forum that he believes is real. He tracks down that poster and the guy invites him to film in his house. The director and his wife go visit the house and are invited to stay there for a weekend and film as much as they want.
The whole hook of the movie is that it is real. Beyond even the Blair Witch Project marketing, this movie is posted as a documentary on Amazon and the guy making it goes out of his way to profess everything is real. The main problem I have, and I think the key to the whole thing is that the first video he gets excited about (the hotel ghost) has already been debunked as a fake video. With the foundation exposed as false, I am pretty safe in saying the rest of the movie built on it is just as false. Still, the unnamed filmmaker does a great job blurring the lines and making you think it could be real. Part of you, as a horror fan, wants it to be. But alas...not yet, my friends.
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