‘Reality meets Legend’
The Canadoo is a 2016 American horror film co-produced, edited and directed by Raymond Wood (The Millbrook Summoning) from a screenplay by Chris Piner (The Millbrook Summoning). The Darkwood Pictures production stars Tyler Buckingham, Alina Lia and Dréy Wigfall.
Plot:
When five fame-hungry millennials are chosen to be contestants on a reality survival TV show, it appears they have been given a chance at celebrity stardom. However, when a mixture of strange discoveries, unexplained occurrences, and mysterious disappearances plague the group, they begin to turn on one another, wondering if they are actually on a game show or if someone playing a game of their own…
Review:
“The Canadoo takes a lot of time to get anywhere near a horror film. The majority of the film is spent giving the characters conversational moments, rather than building tension amongst them and the wilderness. For a non-horror film, this would be entirely fine, but when the movie has less than thirty minutes left, you begin wondering why the “scares” amount to a handful of rustlings in the bushes around the group’s camp.” Horrorriley.com
Cast and characters:
- Tyler Buckingham … Shawn – Burnt Offering; The Walking Dead TV series; The Vampire Diaries TV series
- Alina Lia … Ashley
- Dréy Wigfall … Derrick
- Ali White [as Ali Roberts] … Taylor – The Sluagh; The Ghostbusters: A Web Series
- Teddy Cole … Adam
- Brook Todd … Old Man
Filming locations:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Production:
The Canadoo was completed in September of 2016. It was shown at the American Film Market (AFM) in November 2016.
