On Halloween, 2020, Jesse and Jacob Warner (Braydan Wade and Jacob) disappeared while they were in the middle of a social media live stream. Project Eerie is the found footage film that purports to be that live stream.

Directed and written by Ricky Umberger (The Fear Footage, The Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape and The Fear Footage: 3AM), this film is debuting at The GenreBlast Film Festival. Unlike so many found footage films that are either about the supernatural or just slasher with a different POV, Project Eerie is the story of a top secret project of the same name and the United States government’s PEI division.

On the tape, there’s a tied-up Kevin Wickers (Austin Greene), the most wanted man in America who killed his wife Alice and daughter on a camping trip or so the media would like the world to believe. Instead, they were buzzed by a UFO and in a lost 90-seconds, an ultrasonic weapon caused his Alice to kill their daughter and attack him before she fell off a cliff. Two men, Wes (Jacob Waeyaert) and Jesse (Braydan Wade) are interrogating him when the Emergency Broadcast System warns all of America that a space station has lost power and fallen and an astronaut is on the loose. The entire country is told to shelter in place during this emergency.

I’ve seen a lot of found footage but I’ve never seen one where an astronaut shows up just walking through the woods. That’s absolutely incredible, you know?

There’s also an Amish farm and…you knew it was coming…a Ouija board. Throw in the normal screaming of someone’s name as the camera gets shaky and close with some Men In Black and you get a big mystery in Dundalk, Maryland.

As always, I’m not the biggest fan of shakycam found footage, but if you are, I think you’ll probably enjoy this. The astronaut is, again, an inspired touch.

Project Eerie was watched as part of The GenreBlast Film Festival which is from August 31 to September 3. All screenings for GenreBlast are held at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, Virginia. Passes are on sale through The Alamo Drafthouse Winchester. Learn more at the official site.