mockumentary

Just over 25 years since The Blair Witch Project rendered found footage horror the microbudget subgenre du jour, it is another co-directed banger, Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall’s Man Finds Tape, that reminds us just how effective this formula can be in the right hands. The titular ‘tape’ that the ‘man’ has found brings with it key questions which are at the heart of the movie: Why did the footage go missing? What secrets about the past does it hold, and how will that impact the present? Perfectly straddling the real and the supernatural and built around increasingly hard to answer questions about what is real and what isn’t, Man Finds Tape cleverly employs a mockumentary framework to formally reflect this thematic essence.