BitterMan23

As an avid lover of documentary films, I see quite a lot of them. And as with any genre, the more you see, the more difficult it is to see one that truly sticks out after awhile.

This is one such film.

The story concerns the film's director, Alex, going to Minnesota to do an episode of his show "Provincial Puzzlers", which takes on a small town mystery each week. The episode in question is going to focus on a mysterious hole in the otherwise frozen North Long Lake that appeared one winter. He shows up in town and heads to the lake. That's where things get complicated, and it's only about 2 or 3 minutes into the film.

That's all I'd like to say. I can think of relatively few films where the enjoyment stems from a complete lack of knowledge at what you are about to see. In fact, they are all horror movies or thrillers (Memento and Blair Witch are some examples where the less you know the better, IMO). Not the case here. This is a comedic drama in documentary form, and just as entertaining, perhaps more so, than any other comedy and/or drama you'll see for quite some time.

Highly recommended, and not just to documentary fans. In fact, I feel that this is one of those documentaries that could help to elevate the genre above the stereotypical documentary trappings unfairly associated with them (small indie theaters with bad popcorn, pretentious audiences, etc.) to a place where you can find them playing at the local multiplex throughout the year alongside all the other genres.

Brady Hall has made one of the absolute best low budget independent films I have seen. Too many indies nowadays assume they need to be about a loner, his quirky family/friends, and a bunch of death cab for cutie music, but this film takes that preconception and shoves it up your tooter. You get monsters, music, public access, corpse desecration... all made with the same care and professionalism you would expect from a "normal" movie (which, of course, just makes it all the more funny). If you like random humor, then you'll love this. Any movie that has a guy listening to a tape of celebrity footsteps automatically gets an A from me. Sadly, I believe this may be the only one. Readily available on Netflix, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't check this out.

I have watched this about 1000 times. Its the best zombie documentary short film I have ever seen. The best scene is when the one zombie is eating a guy in a field and he sees the documentary crew, so he runs away. the actor is totally goofy as he runs!!! hahaha what was he eating anyway? it looked like a tongue! The only thing that bothers me is all the Hitler/Nazi subliminal messages. I don't understand why they are in the movie. Was Hitler a zombie?? Also why does the Bryce hick become Jimbob later in the movie? But that aside, its still a good movie, and the people who did it clearly put a lot of work into it. The makeup is just as good as a Romero zombie film, with a lot of gore (though there is one CGI gore effect that looks horrible, I'm not sure why they did that). If you can find this, I recommend checking it out.