Everybody Dies by the End (2022)

This film is another Warped first for me as I hadn’t seen a mockumentary before. The portmanteau, coined in the 60s, was popularized by director Rob Reiner in the 90s as he described the film This is Spinal Tap. I dove into the delightful Everybody Dies by the End for an engaging, critical look through […]

Danny. Legend. God. (2020)

The mockumentary standard was probably set by Man Bites Dog in the early Nineties, and since then the basic format has changed very little. Surprisingly little, perhaps. There’s the renegade subject (usually a man) who forms a dangerous relationship with the film crew, then the loss of control over the creative project itself and an […]

15 Things You Didn’t Know About Bigfoot (2019)

Brian Emond is, or was, a ‘content producer’ from Brooklyn who always badly wanted to rise up through the ranks to real journalism. And, as he tells us early on, journalists are always looking for their exclusive – but don’t always end up telling the story they expected to tell. It’s a premise which guides […]

Strawberry Flavored Plastic (2018)

The ‘mockumentary’ format has been used to interesting effect over the years; note that I said ‘mockumentary’ rather than ‘found footage’, a sub-genre which usually conjures more questions than it can ever answer. There are some important distinctions between the two. Strawberry Flavored Plastic dodges the most typical question asked during found footage, which is […]