FILM · 2024 · BELGIUM
Shelby Oaks
12 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
12 Interesting Facts About Shelby Oaks
Interesting Facts (11)
- #001
The prison scenes were shot at the Ohio State Reformatory (also known as the Mansfield Reformatory) in Mansfield, Ohio. This historic prison closed in 1990 and has served as a location for many film and television productions, most famously The Shawshank Redemption (1994). The prison gates Mia approaches are not the prison's real gates but a set piece built for Air Force One (1997) that still stands on the prison grounds. The prison is considered haunted by many and offers historical and ghost tours to the public.
- #002
Chris Stuckmann's directorial debut.
- #003
One of the film's promotional posters secretly contains the names of everyone who contributed to the film. More than 14,000 people were involved in the making of the film, including through crowdfunding.
- #004
Emily Bennett, who plays the director of the film-within-the-film, is herself an accomplished director and screenwriter. In 2020, the year the film was shot, her screenplay Kept (written with her husband Justin Brooks) was selected for a list of the best unproduced films to be considered for production after the COVID pandemic.
- #005
Michael Beach worked on this film for two days.
- #006
Keith David worked on this film for only one day.
- #007
The interior of the cabin was a set built specifically for the film.
- #008
The baby, named Atticus Newell, was found through Facebook.
- #009
Chris Stuckmann first came up with the idea about missing YouTubers in 2016.
- #010
Chris Stuckmann finished the first day of shooting five hours early.
- #011
The Paranormal Paranoids segments were shot in 2020 and 2021.
Easter Eggs & References (1)
- #012
Norma calls the baby a "cambion." A cambion is the child of a demon. In its first usage, the term referred to the offspring of two demons using semen stolen from human men, and the baby was usually left in a human's care to cause mischief. In the late 1800s, "cambion" also came to cover half-demons born from the union of a human and a demon.
Sources & editorial notes
Reference databases
- IMDb
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