Heather Lee Mannick

May contain spoilers. Has no one else regarded this as a parody?Before clicking play, I expected indie sub par quality, the acting to be terrible and to turn it off way before I did. Creepy, yes I’ll give you that. But only because the plot revolves around topics conditioned to make us uncomfortable. Horrific, nah. The Interviews, map point demos and “recaps” have this awkward, quirky humour aspect to them. Interviewees‘ dialogue sounds like a bunch of teenagers playing detective, which seemed intentional and hilarious. Before one of the murder scenes, the dude brings his girl beer.... and ice cream. LOL you guys!! This is comedy! The map demos pinned severed cartoon body parts on the map to show where the remains were scattered. Haha, like what!? While I think a parody about these subjects is in incredibly poor taste, and ultimately why I turned it off. I couldn’t stop laughing as the killer is screaming at his victim in a sort of brink of tears, whiney, choked up about to cry voice- it made me cringe for the pathetic excuse of a man character. (Sorry idk how to say that PC. I mean no offense to anyone.) I expected to eventually hear the killer retort with “I’m not stupid, you’re stupid. I’m taking my toys and going home.” Even though I maybe made it 15 Min before shutting it down, if parody was in fact the goal here.... the acting was really well done. 5 stars for concept creativity. I actually had to check whether this was a real documentary or not a few min in. The music sayyys movie, but the cinematography was borderline documentary at first. Once we got to the scene of the investigator walking down a ridiculously long length of tapes on display, moving around in a jerky awkward way, my conclusion that this film was in fact, a parody, was confirmed. Unfortunately, I wish it leaned more dramatically towards Horror/Thriller OR Comedy. It felt a little indecisive stylistically.