Paranormal Activity gave me chills.
The Blair Witch Project left me uneasy.
Combine the best of both, and you have the compelling, frightening found footage film, Holes in the Sky: The Sean Miller Story.  

Ash Hamilton opens the full feature introduction as an interviewee, discussing his history in filmmaking and what lead him to follow the media-neglected account of Sean Miller, a mid-western local who disappeared for 4 days in 2013. Was it an alien abduction? Another undisclosed phenomenon? What exactly happened to Sean Miller?

After chasing this unsolved case for several years, Ash and his small team (wife, Chanell and cameraman, Brett) finally load up their gear and head off into the outskirts of Springfield, IL to meet and document all the supernatural activity going on at Sean and Stacey Miller’s home, for the next 5 days. As skepticism settles in (especially with Brett who needs to “see in order to believe”) a jovial Sean appears to greet the doc crew and explain that his wife, Stacey, is still ambiguous about opening their lives to a stranger’s squad of interest.  

Once that fog of uncertainty lifts, Ash immediately notes his challenges through three attempts of filming sequences, all met with sound and image interference in addition to random lighting outages. Creepy, yes. Common…yes, but only in the Miller household. Sean’s anguish begins to emerge as he reluctantly tries to answer Ash’s questions with true transparency. However, the interruptions escalate with forceful knocking at the doors and shadow figures running through the darkness.

Over the next 5 days, more shocking appearances take form in the night, awakening screams cause the crew to scramble with unmitigated panic and eventually, it leads to direct effects on the team who came to observe and record. Each day that passes only escalates into more frightening experiences which eventually leads to Sean’s regression therapy in order to uncover what actually happened during his 4 day disappearance back in 2013. Similar to The Fourth Kind, his hypnosis session detonates into unequivocal terror which sends the entire household into complete fear. Combined with the inevitable 911 call on their final day, this entire encounter progresses into pandemonium as the horror takes shape and…well…it takes something else.  

This is clearly a place that requires more investigating, but at the same time…makes you want to bolt fast and far away from the madness. As concluded by Chanell, “My biggest regret is that we should have left earlier.”  

With a budget of ONLY $700 and a skeletal crew of talented unknown actors, Holes in the Sky delivers and hits every note of being so believable that you may even shed a tear at the end.