Anacoreta Wins Festival Honors Ahead of U.S. Digital Release February 24
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Meta Found Footage Thriller Anacoreta Lands on Digital HD February 24
Cabin in the woods.
Single camera.
Friends trying to make a horror movie.
What could possibly go wrong?
Jeremy Schuetze’s found footage feature Anacoreta is officially heading to Digital HD in the United States on February 24, following a festival run that quietly built serious genre credibility. After debuting in Canada, the film now bows stateside via Filmhub, available to rent or own on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Fandango at Home.
And this isn’t just another shaky-cam experiment.
Anacoreta screened at the Heartland International Film Festival, where it took home Best Horror, and at the Manchester Film Festival, where it won Best International Feature — two strong endorsements for a film operating in one of horror’s most saturated subgenres.
The film stars Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor, Lovesick), Jeremy Schuetze (The Man in the High Castle, Jennifer’s Body), co-writer Matt Visser (Fellow Travelers, Woman of the Hour), and Jesse Stanley (Van Helsing). Schuetze and Visser lean directly into found footage DNA — isolation, self-referential filmmaking, blurred reality — with characters playing versions of themselves as they head into the wilderness to shoot an experimental horror movie.
Naturally, the production begins to unravel.
A weekend getaway to an isolated cabin becomes a slow-motion descent into chaos, paranoia, and death. As the “movie within the movie” starts to fracture, the audience is forced to question what is performance, what is manipulation, and what is genuinely hunting them from the shadows.
Found footage as a subgenre has always walked a tightrope between innovation and repetition. From The Blair Witch Project to REC to Creep, the format thrives when filmmakers understand that tension is psychological before it’s visual. Anacoreta appears to embrace that self-awareness, positioning itself as a meta commentary on genre tropes while still delivering the primal fear of isolation in the woods.
Cabin horror works because it strips away modern comfort. Found footage works because it strips away cinematic safety. Combine the two, and you’re left with something raw — something that feels less produced and more discovered.
The real question isn’t whether the group will survive.
It’s whether the camera will keep rolling.
Anacoreta streams on Digital HD February 24 across the US.
Found footage fans, consider this your next descent into the dark.
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