an update!

For those of you who are unaware,

I am no longer doing written reviews on TO OBSCURITY AND BEYOND. The original intention of this website was to keep record of and review obscure low-budget movies. It is a super fun hobby, and it's a hobby that I have wanted to do for years prior to starting it. But, as of the date of this post, I've been running this blog for the better part of three years and haven't made as many posts as I wish I could have.

When I started working on this site I was starting college and, unsurprisingly, I was inundated with work and didn't have very much time to watch and write about movies. I am now in my junior year of college and, thanks to my flexible schedule, I have more time to write reviews. But sitting down and simply writing the reviews started becoming a chore, especially considering how very few people actually sit down to read these things. I am thankful for the people who have read them, and maybe I'm just biased due to my passion for video-making, but I feel like most people are generally more interested in video reviews. If done well, video reviews are an excellent way to properly invest the viewer, as I have the opportunity to use footage and photos for rhetorical and contextual purposes. If done especially well, video reviews can have high rewatchability, and this personally sounds more appealing in the grand scheme of things.

So instead of continuing to do written reviews, I have rebranded TO OBSCURITY AND BEYOND as a video review series on my personal YouTube page. But I won't be abandoning this blog, in fact I will continue to post each new video to the blog, as well as post updates and continuing to update things like the List of Films Reviewed (by country). After all, one personal goal in this project is to review at least one low-budget or underground movie from every country. Some countries may be extremely difficult or borderline impossible to get films from, but, of course, that won't stop me!

Anyone who happens to check out this website on their own terms can expect the next few posts to embed the YouTube videos, along with brief descriptions of each. But in any case, to anyone who is reading, I would like to thank you for supporting my little project over these past few years. I greatly appreciate you, and I look forward to continuing to entertain you all! <3

-Love, Mikaela Bellamy