Mockumentaries

'Ello

So, I was looking through my ”Awesome stuff” playlist on YouTube, which consists of a few mockumentaries I watched a year or two ago. In short a mockumentary is a movie, television show or the like in which fictional events are shown and presented as a documentary. It is said to be mostly used for comedic or historic shows, but in the last couple of years they have become very popular in the horror genre.
Which, to me, makes totally sense, since the documentary styled movies which are presenting nothing but pure scary fiction, suddenly seems way more realistic to the point where you might question the fact that it really is nothing but fiction.

Well, as I was saying, I found some mockumentaries and skipped through one of them to check out the cool and scary parts that I remembered was in it, and as perfect as it could be, an annotation was added by the makers of the film, mentioning their other films. Thank god it is summer, because I just had to check out some of the other videos by the same people – and if it was winter, it had been really dark out, and that would only end one way: me shitting bricks! Sorry for the language!

Now it’s probably time to mention the actual name of the film makers. They are called EnterViral on YouTube, and the movies I just watched is called Covet and The Asylum, and was posted on YouTube in 2012.

Up till now, I have watched three of their movies, all of them lasting about 45 minutes, so they are not that long, but it is time enough to give you a few scares! And they are quite enjoyable, so unless you literally die from watching horror movies (yes, I’m thinking of you Becca) then watch these short mockumentaries.

The three movies from EnterViral that I’ve watched so far are:

The Rake (November 2011)

Basically this movie revolves around three guys who as stupid as it sounds (yes, I’m being subjective) decides that it’s an oh so great idea to go camping in some unknown woods, without bringing anything that would make it possible to communicate with the world – on purpose. First of all, woods are scary at night just being, you know, woods, but as the title insinuates, there is something else in the woods which makes life miserable for the three guys. The Rake lives in those woods, and you do not want to meet the Rake. I can assure you of that.

Find it here

Covet (January 2012)

This movie is pretty hard to explain what’s about, but it starts out with the guy John living in his new house, and he knows that somebody has been stealing drinks from his fridge in the garage. After about a week of it going on every night, he sets up at security camera to check out who has been stealing from him. The videos show a man or creature crawling naked inside the garage, stealing and leaving again. John starts to research on the former owners of the house and looks into why the house haven’t been sold for fifteen years, and he has some very interesting discovers.

Find it here

The Asylum (July 2012)

The Asylum is about three so-called historians who are curious about an old and closed off Asylum which has tunnels underneath it which are supposedly not locked off. They explore the tunnels, but they find out that they are not the only ones down there, and are somewhat followed by this person. There’s a minor error in this movie in the end of it which made it very hard for me to take the rest of the movie serious, but hopefully others won’t feel the same way.

Find it here

 

What all of these movies have in common, aside from being mockumentaries, is the fact that they have all ended in the characters either disappearing or dying mysteriously where the cameras have later been found, and it is also the same actors in all three movies. But since they are short, and you don’t really get to see much of the characters (because they are holding the camera filming), it doesn’t make them bad.

 I have watched many other mockumentaries and these are only the few I have seen made by EnterViral, and I may or may not mention them in later posts in the future!

Other horror mockumentaries:

 

The Tunnel (2011) - watch here

Windigo (2011) - watch here

Paranormal Activity Series (2007 - ?)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

 

 

Oh yeah, and my favorite series in the whole wide world just happens to be presented mockumentary style – what a coincidence! Or MAYBE that was the thing that brought me to like mockumentaries? Who knows? Yes, I’m being sarcastic!

I won’t even mention the name of my favorite series in the whole wide world here, just because it would be disrespectful only to mention it in a tiny passage of the entire post. It needs at least a whole post for itself! You might hear about it someday.

If you should know any awesome horror mockumentaries or if you wish to get more mockumentary recommendations, please leave a comment down below! Love you!

Shia

Where to find the wild things

Hi there everyone!
Last week I talked about my big love for Alt-J and their songs - lyrics and beats. Well, today I’m going to talk about this movie that I got to know, thanks to Alt-J: Where the wild things are! Actually I heard a little about this movie from a friend of mine before, but I had never actually seen it, only heard some songs of the soundtrack from the movie. But no matter what, it is an amazing, adventurous and very creative movie!

The movie is based on the book “Where the wild things are” by Maurice Sendak, and it is about this boy called Max, who seems to be very lonely. His alone mother works a lot, and he does not see much of his sister, which results in a lot of daydreaming, imagining and wild games in his wolf suit. He creates great things in his mind, and has a big talent of making up stories and also lies. But one evening, when he wants attention too bad, and his aggressions get too big, he runs off, leaving his nice and safe home and family.

It seems that he finds a boat, and sails all day until he finds this land, where he goes on board. But the land is not like any normal kind, because on this land some wild creatures live, and that is ‘the wild things’! It is to these 'monsters' or so, who are controlled by their lust and inner child, Max tells a lie, because he was going to be eaten by them otherwise. So he tells them, that he once was a great king in another land, and the wild things decide to make him their king, because they hope that a king could bring them out of their unhappiness and miseries.

Max is a great king to begin with, he knows a lot of funny games and he even figures out this great castle of them to live in! But it is very hard to keep all of the creatures happy at once, and in the end, when the wild thing that Max might end up loving the most, Carol, hears that Max is a fraud, everything goes wrong. Carol gets so hurt and aggressive, that he almost ends up eating Max, and in the end Max decides to leave.  

Everything about this movie is so magical, and still it is not like the same old usual romantic story, which is all happiness and rainbows. This movie, it being a children’s movie or not, has this very fine harshness to it, and the boy who plays Max captures this role so perfect, that this harshness is absolutely beautiful. Also the soundtrack created for this movie, is amazing! I have listened to all of the songs a lot, and they are all so full of suspense, just in their sound, that I can’t help listening to them in excitement! 

I would definitely recommend this movie to any movie lover, any adventure lover, any soundtrack lover, any children’s worlds lover or just any lover of the creative, there might be. Watch it; I don’t think you will regret it!

Love, Freja

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