A documentary of a found footage documentary of found footage.
Layer 1: A student film looking into Peeping Tom. Layer 2: a filmmaker finds those tapes and tries to make something of them. Layer 3: A documentary looking into that process.
I've seen my share of found footage movies and this... is pretty good! I like that meta level of it, and they are doing interesting and different things with comparing how this could be real but also could be fake. There's a large element of "make up your own mind" while suggesting that it is real, and at the same time suggesting it is fake.
And I like more than they are including real world people in there, such as Andy Wardlaw, editor for Finding Bigfoot, and Matt Lake, writer of Weird Maryland. No doubt those people have to be careful around what they say "that stuff is fake, but my stuff is real", but it's nice to see bringing in links with that area of media. (This isn't the only case of this I've seen, and it's always nice when it happens.)
There's a lot here about obsession, about what looking into the abyss can do.
The final ending is a little bit of a let down, with the film trying to be tricky about what it wants to convey at the end, but otherwise is a good watch.
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