Directed by:
Christopher MacBrideScreenplay:
Christopher MacBrideCinematography:
Ian AndersonComposer:
Darren BakerCast:
Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Simon Reynolds, Julian Richings, Philip Riccio, A.C. Peterson, Angela Besharah, Ian Matthews, Melanie Scrofano, R.D. Reid (more)VOD (1)
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Two ambitious young filmmakers embark on a documentary about conspiracy theorists. They strike gold with the seemingly unhinged Terrance, someone who screams into a bullhorn at strangers and whose apartment walls are lined with clippings from newspapers. When Terrance disappears without warning Aaron the more intrigued of the filmmakers compared to the logical family man Jim, is compelled to piece together the clues and remnants left behind in the wake of Terrance's disappearance. What starts as a portrait of comical lunacy emerges into a chilling cover up of monumental proportions. The Conspiracy scales the precarious divide between truth and fiction and in doing so explores and exhausts the drama inherent in our discoveries. (Accent Film Entertainment)
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After countless unoriginal found-footage horror flicks we’ve got to the stage where for it to be interesting a film must push the concept somewhere further. The original feeling of “cool! the camera makes me a character” is long gone. The recent Europa Report ingeniously built tension and titillated the viewer’s expectations with the question “how is it possible that we are seeing this footage?” The Conspiracy is another example of a fake documentary (i.e. a blend of found-footage scenes with interviews of people of interest) and in the end the viewer is nagged by a completely different question: “Why are they showing this documentary to us?” To appreciate it, you must not take it as a feature film, you need to get into the documentary game; it’s the only way this smart film can work. The horror bits (jump-scares, action, gore, scary atmosphere) are lacking for most of it and therefore the film will not be everyone’s cup of tea, even though the final “ritualistic” act is very mysterious and unsettling (I couldn’t avoid remembering the ending of Wheatley’s Kill List).
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