Found-footage is a great cheap way to make a horror film. If you’re ambitious enough, you can even add your own little twists to make it iconic or even unique. But when you introduce a convoluted plot with unnecessary details during the first 20 minutes used to distract the audience from the fact that it will lead nowhere, not even a bunch of late jump-scares can save it from being entertaining. In the case of Holes In The Sky: The Sean Miller Story, there’s something boring, something dull and something interesting about it.

It starts as a documentary made out of footage taken in 2020 during the investigation of the abnormal reappearance of Sean Miller (Sean Ed), a regular person that seems to have been abducted in 2013 and returned a while after by visitors from the sky. After his arrival, weird things that fall between paranormal and supernatural begin to happen around Sean’s home and strange figures appear to him to disturb his peace. After some years, a group of investigators decide to contact him to see if anything new has happened but, what seems to have been calm for a while has now awaken to relive Sean’s nightmares and bring new victims into the circle.

Holes In The Sky: The Sean Miller Story takes the cheap route by reusing and reimagining planes and ideas from other found-footage films. It’s not a bad idea when the plan is to use them to your advantage while adding an innovative spin. But, when it’s only used as inspiration to give tone and life to the story, this turns the project into a set of clichés for which the audience could lose interest in after a few minutes— and if the first two acts lead nowhere, they’re probably already completely gone to watch something else.

However, the high quality of the production on such a low budget is admirable— from the special effects to the graphics used to give it that essence of a documentary made by some production house. The story is a bit creative by taking advantage of merging two subgenres into one, even though it’s been done before but makes it work in its favor to tell a story that might fright some of its viewers.

Holes In The Sky: The Sean Miller Story is a mockumentary/found-footage independent film that brings nothing new to the subgenre but it has some eerie ideas that brings good scares that could traumatize a new generation that hasn’t seen The Fourth Kind.

6 OUT OF 10 CALLS