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.ask (2024) director Chris Vander Kaay
@ckvanderkaay.bsky.social
Filmmaker, author, former screenwriting professor, current PONTYPOOL fan.
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I made a feature film for less than $250, and it is now available through POV Horror!

It’s called .ask, it’s a found footage movie, and I made it as inspiration/proof of concept for hopeful filmmakers. Learn more here:

povhorror.com/details/U202...
No one does big, controversial ideas better than Spike Lee, and BAMBOOZLED is no exception!
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A hilarious, violent modern Little Red Riding Hood?! Sign me up for FREEWAY!
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today’s #foundfootage reaction is for a short film called THE PARK. Or as I like to call it “Mosh Pit Revisited”:

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Found Footage Reaction- The Park (2024 horror movie)
YouTube video by Chris Vander Kaay
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November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Terrifying and thrilling, based on a true story, and ALL SHOT IN ONE TAKE! It’s PVC-1.
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Kaiju Haiku.

Five syllables, then seven syllables, then total destruction.
a statue of a monster is standing on top of a building in a city
Alt: Godzilla stands in the wreckage of a city
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November 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Is it a #horrormovie or a comedy or WHAT? I don’t know, but BUTT BOY is definitely one of my insane movie recommendations.
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Did I gather every VAMPIRE #foundfootage trailer in one video for all my FF fan friends? Of course I did!

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FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR TRAILERS- Vampires
YouTube video by Chris Vander Kaay
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November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I was six pages into Kurt Vonnegut’s BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS when I paused long enough to buy Cat’s Cradle & a book of his short stories blind.

Vonnegut has been the most influential writer of any kind & any medium on me. Humanist, absurd, kind, erudite. Can’t measure up to his work but always try.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A #horrormovie set on Halloween with slashers that AREN’T Michael Myers? They’re a bunch of HELLIONS!
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Looking for #foundfootage movies with CLOWNS in them? I gathered all the trailers for Clown Found Footage in this video, and I bet there are some you haven’t seen!

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FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR TRAILERS- Clowns
YouTube video by Chris Vander Kaay
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November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s a science fiction martial arts musical and I couldn’t love it any more: SIX-STRING SAMURAI!
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Without Shutter Island or Inception, this ranking got messy, but I’ve done worse. And so has Leonardo DiCaprio.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
A #horrormovie baked after a punk band that is funny and surprisingly sweet, check out UNCLE PECKERHEAD!
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
GENIUS: The AI bubble can’t burst, too many people like it and want it.

ME: Remember 2008? Way more people need homes than need AI, and that shit still tanked.
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Is this #horrormovie one of Samuel L. Jackson’s best performances?
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
RAVENOUS combines cannibalism, westerns, and comedy, and it’s a blast!
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ryan Philippe has only directed one #horrormovie and it’s called CATCH HELL.
November 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Heartbroken to report one of the originators of found footage filmmaking, Peter Watkins, just passed away.

From Punishment Park to The Gladiators, his work gave power & credibility to a genre we love. This is a huge loss. Watch a found footage film in his honor:
www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
RIDICULOUSNESS was cancelled after 14 SEASONS! As the show on TV with arguably the lowest cost for production of nearly anything, it begs the question: do any companies want to make anything anymore?
a woman with her mouth wide open says i 'm sorry i just do n't get it
Alt: a woman with her mouth wide open says i 'm sorry i just don't get it
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October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reality TV and Newscast found footage! The season 1 finale of FOUND FOOTAGE FINDS is now on YouTube, talking about the best found footage films using reality TV & newscasts as their stylistic framing.

Check out recommendations and filmmaker interviews on the episode here:
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Found Footage Finds, Ep. 5- Reality TV & Newscasts (2025)
YouTube video by Chris Vander Kaay
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October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
He’s more than just Silent Bob—he made a great religious siege #horrormovie with a LOT of familiar faces.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Why do people treat AI like they treat kids writing their first book report?

What it creates is clearly awful, but still they smile & nod & pat it on the back & show it to the other parents with “pride.”

Treat it like the rushed, sloppy, error-ridden high school essay it is and flunk that fucker.
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We won’t be getting a classic #JusticeLeague in the new #DCU, but maybe we’re getting something equally cool…
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Has James Gunn already secretly introduced #Brainiac into the #DCU? I have a theory…
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The Lowdown. Blue Moon. Black Phone 2.

Ethan Hawke is having an absolutely stellar 2026.
a man is smiling while sitting in a chair in a dark room
Alt: Ethan Hawke is smiling and nodding while sitting in a chair in a dark room
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October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM