Found Footage February Day 13 The Conspiracy!!!

Day 13

The Conspiracy

Nothing more fun than conspiracy theories and the people peddling them. Seriously, one of my favorite old, and I mean old youtube videos, was run by this guys channel dedicated to proving celebrities were advanced robots.

He had videos comparing their head movements and eye movements to tracking motions and excitedly pointing out each time they moved their heads in a completely unnatural way. In only a way a DAMN MACHINE WOULD!.

It was endless hours of entertainment but the channel is now gone, and I can only imagine the guy either gave up on his quest, or he was replaced with a robot. Who knows.

As for the film today? Well same applies, where will this take us? Who knows. Will it be about the puppet masters pulling the strings? Will it be lizard people who are enslaving us as a food source? The mega rich being rich and evil, ALIENS?

Who knows, but I am curious to find out so lets get into it already. I WANNA KNOW! But that also means we are putting ourselves on the radar of them, the ones who know!

The Film

How better to begin, than with a long haired man screaming into a megaphone at a large business building. Shouting out to the ‘ma’ about humans being more than just a number, cattle. The same man is the focus of our documentary in the beginning. His name is Terrance G, a local conspiracy theorist. He honestly seems like an alright guy, until you get him going off about something. But he’s not here to entertain, or tell us about aliens controlling our government. Instead it’s a bit more grounded. He’s mostly discussing how the powers that be, that control everything, have manipulated society into being a place and people that are made to doubt everything,

He is the subject of our documentarians Aaron and Jim. Two local filmmakers who decided this guy would be a fun time to film and go over his many crackpot theories and behaviors in public.

His home, is really nice, and I am jealous. How he affords this place I haven’t a clue. But it’s a really nice place. If not for the fact it is covered wall to ceiling in news paper clippings, with colored thumb tacks, string and yes the famous ‘murder board’, which isn’t a murder board but just the general phrase hip people use for referencing a board with connecting string and events.

So what’s on his murder board? Specific dates and events. NOT specific major events mind you, but the day before each specific major event. As well as every piece of legislation that gets passed anywhere, at all times. Whatever he feels to be significant.

Like the military commissions act, which allows U.S. citizens to be detained at undisclosed facilities indefinitely. FEMA and the clergy working together on drills to help calm decent in people, and one I remember hearing about where FEMA can detain and place people in ‘camps’ during national emergencies. As I recall that also came up during Covid as it was brought up as a huge red flag to people when they stated in this pamphlet how unvaccinated people could potentially be rounded up and kept in camps until vaccinated.

Needless to say the man is a fun guy and I’d enjoy watching his videos, up to a point.

It’s a well done mockumentary and they’re going all out on its believability factor. Sure this is using Terrance as their main focus. But they are also including snippets of interviews and well edited cuts from talking with other groups and individuals within the conspiracy community. From militants fighting against the controlling powers that be, chem trail specialist, 9/11 being an inside job, anti-vaxxers, you name it.

Terrance is completely believable. The guy is humble, intelligent and doesn’t appear to be crazy, until he goes off the deep end with his megaphone talking about sheeple, being controlled, and being blind to the truth around us.

He walks around with his foldable murder board on his back, so he can set up shop at any park, plaza, or place that’s open to the public so he won’t get arrested. Sets up his little display of truth facts and begins his day preaching. But not just to the public at large.

He goes right to the source of big businesses, to the wealthy and powerful. Delivering his message at their front door.

Why?

Because he wants them to know, that he knows. And if people listen to him, not just hear him but listen, then maybe they will spread the truth as well, and then others will do the same and so on.

The guy again isn’t really that kind of crazy that is likely to have dark circles under his eyes and stare wildly at you while explaining how they put tracking devices in the fillings of your teeth. He’s just a fairly nice guy. I like how the film is presenting him but also its documentary style approach. These people spent their time watching documentaries. They nailed the music ques, the vibe. It’s all well done and unfortunately coming to an end, because we need our story to begin, which we have not been told yet what that shall end up being, as nothing has notified us about anyone having gone missing.

UNTIL NOW!!!

Apparently after their last interview with Terrance, they tried contacting him to see how he was doing and to possible shoot a follow up but, no answer. No one has seen or heard from him in four weeks. The group is concerned about him and even the few friends he had have nothing to say. He wasn’t arrested, hadn’t been in the hospital, nada. The funniest but most expected thing was the filmmakers go online to a conspiracy theories 3D chat room asking about him, and everyone walks away from them.

They decide to visit his home only to find no one answering of course, but however, they are allowed in the building because the landlord is getting rid of all his furniture as well, no rent, no tenant. So Aaron begins packing up what he can grab of…news paper clippings. Which oddly enough those were scarce. For a change. The house was bare of a lot of those clippngs, but what was left scattered on the ground. They are picking up and packing into garbage bags. Aarons thoughts are that, if they can put that stuff together, maybe they can find some kind of clue as to what he stumbled onto or where he went.

While doing so, Aaron keeps revisiting their interviews with Terrance, not just for the pursuit of knowledge, but in the hopes he will spot someone or something relevant. What we get is background into his man conspiracy and the one the film will focus on, as we are told about specific events in history that lead to major U.S. and world changing events, Things used to start wars, In one such clip we get a hopeful lead, as Terrance stops one of his rants to point out there is someone on a bike who’s been tailing him and taking photos of him. Which being into all that he’s into, it’s easy to imagine another conspiracy person doing so, or yeah possibly ‘official’ figures keeping tabs.

Aaron is diving enough into this that his brain starts to click. For good or ill, neurons are sparking and he’s beginning to see something in all of the mans rantings.

We know we are in for some fun times ahead, the moment Aaron begins moving his furniture around and clearing his wall. So that he can begin putting those clippings on the wall and begin piecing together….something.

He wants to find the pattern. What it was that Terrance was following, figure out what theory he stumbled onto that ended up with his disappearing. Because Aaron firmly believes in this day and age with technology being what it is, People don’t just vanish, they can’t.

Unfortunately he’s beginning to slide down a slippery slope and his friend Jim is not here for it. He’s afraid he’s losing his friend to the delusions of a madman and he doesn’t want to see his friend go down that road, and end up crazy.

It’s played believably and again, kudos to the actors and the route the film is going. They are nailing the strong vibes and I like where it’s headed. Especially seeing Aarons slow decent into a deep bottomless pool. But the man feels there’s a connection and he has to find it.

So with the power of google he is off and running. He begins googling the specific dates and events Terrance had gathered. He connected the dots on his murder board and he believes he is onto the answer at long last, so he invites his best friend Jim over to show it to him and prove, there is not only something there to connect with Terrance vanishing. But there is a documentary worthy topic there to continue with.

Enter, The Tarsus Club.

An organization of big wig rich, influential and political figures. They’ve all had meetings and such the day before major chaotic events. From the sinking of the Lusitania leading into WW1, to 9/11 and the war on terror, Aaron found the pattern Terrance was onto and now they have a viable story and lead. So the documentary is going to begin following the Tarsus Club, thanks to an article which discussed the topic of the group and what they do, however it was the ONLY article ever published about the group and the writer of said article has ALSO gone missing so, fun times indeed.

But the world being the way it is today and everything being online. There is of course a Tarsus Club website. Which is members only. The internet was a young beautiful place once.

So of course these two guys call the websites phone number, because why wouldn’t you?

I can think of MANY reasons not to contact a potentially scary world controlling organization with an angelfire website but, we need a movie so here we gooooo.

Does the phone call get them anything? No.

It only ends up freaking them out.

When they dial the number provided by the side, as soon as they dial it. All you hear is a recorded female voice reading off Aaron’s telephone number.

So what more can a documentarian crew do?

Why post an add online asking for information from anyone who knows ANYTHING about the Tarsus club! That’s what!

If red flags are waiving in your face and slapping you. It’s because we all learned during a fun time what not to do on the internet. And what happens when you reach out on it. Sometimes good things happen, other times spam and dick pics happen. But then you also have the slave traders and the sickos and the stalkers. These guys however only got one email response. Someone wanting them to meet with them in the conspiracy theory chat room.

When they meet this man of mystery, he tells them to immediately take down everything they’ve put out there online about the Tarsus club, If they do so, then he’ll talk with them. He’s just trying to look out for them after all.

Aaron and Jim agree, and we have our first lead and interview about the Tarsus world organization.

As it turns out, the man they spoke to online, is in fact the author of the Times article that was published about the organization. He is of course being filmed with his face blanked out and voice distorted to keep himself anonymous as this is after all for a documentary still. From him we learn what the purpose is of this group, how it came to be, and about the publishing of his article as well as the power and influence the group holds. He tells us how the main focus behind the group is and has always been the idea of a new world order, a one world government. One group to rule them all. They also throw in a dash of the ufo conspiracy formula where they say that, while this is a secret society group, it is known somewhat to the world at large. As it was designed to be. If you present something to the world, that exist. But you do so in a way that sounds unreal or, like the case of aliens, you have officials telling you they’ve personally seen the crafts and the government knows about it. Yeah you are highly likely to dismiss it. So by the group allowing the article to be written and published about them, even AFTER his editor butchered it up to hide some facts, the very fact they allowed it to be published was done to serve their purpose. Show themselves, to a world that is directed to question and dismiss obvious truths as fabrications. Presenting themselves and hiding in plain sight, controlling and releasing what they want of who they are, enough to give a shadow to the figure.

We’re getting deep into it and its fun.

So the documentary is back in full swing. We have inserts of interviews with bookstore owners and figures within the conspiracy community around them, all talking about what they’ve heard about the Tarsus group, and supposed members within, what goes on at these meetings, how it formally came to be, etc. It’s well presented.

However, we are also getting behind the scenes shots with Aaron and Jim, discussing the content of the documentary, the believability of the writer and others involved. And…the realization that Aaron is now being followed by the same man on a bike who followed Terrance.

Aaron also has had his apartment broken into and belongings rifled through. His shoes were stolen and Jim jokes likely 40 bucks worth of crap. But he is a good bro so he’s going to take Aaron into his hope and let him live there for a while. Because Aaron is now in the fear stage of conspiracy living.

Adding just another layer onto Aarons decent and the sadness we see on Jim’s face as he realizes his friend is losing himself more and more into this madness. The moment he’s allowed into Jim’s home with Jim’s wife and baby, Aaron before anything else, is setting up his murder bored once more. In the few shots we see of Aaron now, he’s looking and acting more paranoid. It’s a fun slow transition from how he was presented in the beginning to us as fun and taking the documentary and Terrance as that weird friend you like to film and talk too but not hang out with, to now being the chain smoking shaky handed, speaking a mile a minute conspiracy theorist. Aaron has taken a huge bite of a truth sandwich and he’s got a craving.

Which is understandable. I recently discovered Texas Red Chili for the first time. How a chili made of just sauce and meat existed and I didn’t know about it is beyond me. As a kid I would’ve demanded this as I hated beans in chili, I’ve grown to like them now of course, however I still hate corn, onions, sour cream, potatoes ANYTHING extra in  chili. Keep it simple people. I made Texas red chili. I fell in love with it, and 3 days later I went to the store and bought stuff to make another batch.

So yes, Aaron is eating the conspiracy chili.

Which is about to get a whole lot deeper.

But it’s also a great moment as it showcases again the difference in behavior between Jim now being the professional documentarian, and Aaron being the truth seeker, we see this as they again interview the man who wrote the article on Tarsus, and Jim tries to politely word a way to ask him why it is a group is allowed to function like that without being called out or others attempting to stop it. Which he is unable to do, as Aaron cuts him off and point blank ask him, in a very concerning look of crazy on his face “Why hasn’t anyone stopped them, or tried to expose them.”

Jim looks highly concerned and the fact the topic is now taking over his friends behavior and affecting the documentary is not lost on him.

Aaron isn’t waiting for answers to his first question…questions. Instead he’s following it up with one after the other, after the other.

Finally settling on asking about a ritual he mentioned in the article that the group all take part in at the end of their gatherings, the hunting of the bull. Which the writer happily explains to the group, and we get an entire history on, “The ritual is historical, it comes from Mithras”

Get ready for a whole lot of information which I am not even going to try and shovel back out for this thing. Just know that Mithras is known to be the first secret society, had a Christ like figure that predates Jesus Christ by 2,000 years, and apparently their secret hand shake is, how we all began to shake hands. I can’t authenticate it, it’s likely true, but I don’t want to google and end up with people standing out in the woods where I live watching me, I already have enough problems with aliens and owls. No I am not joking. I just don’t like talking about it.

So things are shaping up both good, and horribly. We are likely to see at some point this killing of the bull event, and the more off the rails Aaron gets, the more likely we are to have fun. Which we definitely are, as a hot mic happens to pick up Aaron talking in private to the writer and he ask him how someone might attend or get into one of those Tarsus meetings. He is carefully and quietly told how he might, and essentially it also depends not just on money but, how far you are willing to go, to find the truth. Not a good thing to hear. But its enough for Aaron to go out and begin planning to infiltrate a secret society that has been behind every major world changing event.

This planning brings them to a surveillance store where Aaron is purchasing himself a hidden camera tie clip. Shortly after that stop, they record themselves driving and being followed by a large black car. They try losing it several times just to see if it actually is following them, and of course it follows them. So yes, they definitely are getting on someone’s radar.

Which is only further effecting Aaron.

To a point we finally need an intervention. Jim so far has been letting things pass, He hasn’t said anything directly to his friend, he’s just been keeping it to himself, and every so often trying to tell his friend to maybe take a step back.

But now, as Jim watches his friend fit himself with the hidden tie clip camera, and sees him actually looking ready to go through with this. He has to say something. He’s taken things way too far. He’s losing his mind and, for once an actual good reason to be concerned does pop up. Jim has to admit, allowed. That even if he doesn’t believe in this bullshit. There is the possibility that, if this group truly does run things behind the scenes, has this much power, control and influence? Should you really mess with them? If that’s really the case then it stands to reason you could end up missing or dead. He’s trying to be realistic without buying into it and voicing his honest concern. Which Aaron just sees as him being afraid, which is what THEY WANT YOU TO BE!

However one night is going to begin changing things. As Jim and Aaron notice the same black car that had been following them previously, is now parked across the street from Jim’s home. Its lights are on and in park. Jim is not willing to believe it’s ‘them’, so Aaron tells him okay, lets see how long they stay then. If it’s a random car, an uber, a lost person reading a map, visitors, they’ll know once they leave or get out.

45 minutes later the car is still there, unmoved, just sitting across from the house.

As Aaron confronts Jim with this, Jim is still not wanting to admit what he’s seeing. He still tries to excuse it as possibly an airport car waiting for someone to pick up outside their house. Aaron is done with being afraid and not doing anything so, yep. He’s marking out of the house and right out to the car. Which takes off in a huge hurry the moment he gets near it.

Top that off with Jim’s wife wanting to know why the guys have all their camera gear out and why Aaron is wearing a fancy tie, well. Jim makes a choice, and tells her its nothing. That they aren’t getting ready to film, anything. That night Jim takes a long look at his friends murder board. Well..murder wall. And has himself a deep think about what the hell to do.

Aaron on the other hand, has discovered exactly what to do, as their friend the writer of that article, contacts Aaron and Jim and tells them that he has come across some news through a source that might put things together for them. Someone, a possible groundskeeper or…well someone. Connected to this group who are apparently readying to meet again, Is willing to share the location with the guys, for a price. Aaron is fully on board and Jim is, well. He doesn’t want to send his friend out alone and he himself, after looking over what they’d filmed, his friend connecting the dots, everything. Has decided he will go with Aaron. Either they’ll find nothing, or scarier yet, they’ll find something.

So the two setout on a road trip, along with 3 of their filmmaking friends. They are getting fitted for suites, packing up and….headed to the woods. They find a little run down cabin which they designate as their Alamo should they for whatever reason get separated. The two walk through the woods and find themselves by a roadside they were told this person would meet up with them and help sneak them in. It’s actually a pretty sad moment as the two are laying on the ground to keep out of site, waiting for this truck to arrive and pick them up to sneak them inside. They are both staring at one another and a moment of realization hits both of them. Jim admits he doesn’t want to be there, he doesn’t know why he’s there, and for one moment, Aaron agrees and even tells him he doesn’t want to be there.

It looks like they’re going to go back home and the reality of all this craziness has begun to finally sink in. I mean when you are dressed in a suite, wearing track pants and a hoodie, laying on the side of a muddy ditch waiting for a ride to a secret society meeting with people supposedly in charge of every major world changing event. You’d have a moment or three of clarity.

Unfortunately we’d have no movie is they didn’t go, and even more unfortunate is the fact that as they make this decision to go home. The truck has pulled up and stops. Waiting for them to sneak into the back and conceal themselves. Which Aaron does.

It’s a fun comparison for me, and somewhat fitting, but it reminds me of the scene on Endor at the landing station when Vader confronts Luke and you see him have his moment of doubt, where Vader actually considers what Luke is telling him, and the possibility of leaving the Emperor. But Vader with his back to his son tells him sadly, “It is, too late for me, my son.” Just has that vibe to it.

I AM NOT, putting this movie on the same pedestal as Star Wars, but damnit it’s a touching moment and you feel things are going to go the only way they could from here on out, as we are headed to a party for the Tarsus club.

With that, our friends sneak out the truck, out of their tracksuits and join the party. Mingling with as little people as humanly possible. It’s a field of scrambled faces and robot voices, which also can only bode well given this potentially is found footage. As our dynamic duo make their way through the party we are greeted with call backs to earlier conversations. The Mithras handshake or…just handshake. Ceremonial roman daggers for, you know. The hunt. And old rich people hanging with the young crowd to be hip and cool.

We learn a bit of the hierarchy within the club as well. Apparently the first timers are known as Ravens, while the older members are referred to as Lions, and somewhere I am sure there are wolves and if you are in a large home at a weird party surrounded by burly men, you either get excited or frightened when you hear someone referred to as a bear, or bull. Really it all depends on you.

Did I mention there are daggers AND animal mask to hide everyones identity during ‘the hunt’

Did I mention there are weapons for an actual fucking hunt?

Because there are, there is, and there will be. A hunt.

Being as these are wealthy world leaders of the new order, and they know how to party. They are putting on a huge display for their brothers, complete with torches, togas and a light show. Given they all call each other brother, I was expecting Hulk Hogan to appear in his Thunderlips attire from Rocky 3, but alas we can’t have everything, so maybe don’t call people in your secret club brother if you aren’t going to base it off Hulk Hogan.

With that, the horns and dramatic show come to a pause, and our grand poobah is making his opening ceremonies speech.

“A community of stars, forming one constellation. A circle of brothers forming one family! Hail Mithras, hail new lights!”

With that, or not the Hulkster leader calls out ‘the Ravens’ to come fourth. Much like fight club they aren’t allowed to just sit back and watch. Its their first event so, they have to participate.

If you need me to tell you where this is going, well don’t expect me to. There are a lot of ravens apparently. All of them guys in their 20’s it seems, a real sausage fest. They are being lead to a tent and going through a ceremony. Their hands are bound with rope. They are anointed with blood, and they prostate themselves before a ceaserly masked man who once they introduce themselves to them and present themselves. He proceeds to cut their ropes. Which. Seems kind of a waste of ropes but who am I to question the new world order and how they spend their money.

Do our aspiring documentarians go through with this? Oh you bet your holy ass they do.

Jim is the first, and Aaron becomes worried. He doesn’t know if his buddy is okay, if they’re really going through with this, or if they should back out. Which of course means he’s panicking in a line full of initiates and causing a scene. You never want to cause a scene at a secret society. You already stand out as the new stock, you don’t want to stand out more then that.

He’s told to stand in the back of the line and he complies, once he spots Jim and see’s he’s fine.

At least he seems to be.

I mean as fine as a guy can be after having his hands anointed in blood, binding their wrist and then having the bindings cut, arising a new man.

While Aaron is faced with his own transformation in line, Jim is back in the party house enjoying himself, mingling with the rich and enjoying his cool mask. At least until the leader of ceremonies joins him asking how it went, how he’s doing. Welcoming him into a brotherhood which there is no escape, or member fees. Better yet no union either. Which is pretty sweet.

However the conversation takes a turn toward the creepy as he mentions to him that in a way their group is like a family. More specifically, like a wife and kid. Which rightfully begins to freak him out, he knows exactly what and who the man is referring. He politely and with the talent of Lawrence Olivia tells his host he needs to piss so bad he can taste it. So he excuses himself, running for his life down a spiral staircase and immediately calling his wife. Which of course leads to a fun discovery. Her phone is ringing somewhere inside that house. But before we can get further into it, Jim is grabbed up by his new raven bros.

As for Aaron? Well. Sometimes going last in anything isn’t the best thing. As he takes his new vows and has his anointed hands cut free, he is adorned with his own mask. His mask however is a full head mask and not a cool raven mask. Instead you guessed it. He’s wearing a bull head mask.

SO. Jim gets anointed and new friends who kidnap his family, and Aaron gets to be the main target of an old rich man hunt with roman daggers.

THIS, is a party!

Although Aaron would highly disagree. He is having a case of the oh shit I actually went to a secret society and they didn’t believe I was one of them, mixed in with a dash of the stupid.

His dash of stupid comes in the form of, well. Let’s roleplay shall we?

You lost your damn mind and decided to attend a party of rich powerful people who are readying for a hunt the bull event. You were stupid enough to stick around for the whole thing and find yourself not surprisingly made into the bull. You see on a hill tip ALL of these men wearing mask and armed with daggers. Those armed men come rushing down the hill at full sprint shouting and yelling toward you.

What do you do?

A.)    Run like there’s no tomorrow because if they catch your ass there WILL be no tomorrow

B.)    Grab a torch to defend yourself and die stabbed my over 40 people when they surround you.

C.)    Grab the scimitar from the tent where you were anointed and run off to the woods to defend yourself and find a way out .

D.)    Stand still and try to reason with the mob.

Aaron chose D.

Why he did, we do not know. But that was the mans logical choice. He saw a mob of armed angry men charging toward him roaring out war cries intent on killing his bull ass, and he chooses to stand his ground, remove the bulls head as if discovering he is not an actual bull will prevent them from doing this, and attempting to use logic and reasoning to ask them not to kill him, and simply allow him to escape.

Somewhere in his mind, I pray. I don’t hope. I just pray, because hoping is giving too much faith over to Aaron. But I pray, that he heard his mind call him a dumb motherfucker, for thinking that, yes. Lets reason with a secret society of powerful world changing men. Ask them to please, let me go, after I have infiltrated your gathering, saw things no one was meant to see, and faces that I can now identify, and captured on hidden camera. Let me go free, because I do not wish to die, and I will just go back to living life happily in ignorant bliss.

If you still feel that is the best choice you have made, you are not long for this world.

You just gotta run and hope for the best, or die trying.

Then again he could’ve tried option E. Which is strip naked and stark double fist jerkin it standing there with your tongue out.

No one ever tries option E, and I still feel it has a strong chance of success. You may think it’s wrong. But remember this, pirates first raided a British ship butt ass naked and it caught them all off guard and scared the hell out of them. I’m just sayin.

Just sayin.

So Aaron quickly finds out that these people are not willing to stop and talk with him and he quickly runs for his life into the woods. Thankfully for Aaron, the woods are the natural enemy of powerful old white men. As they cant see well at night. Especially when no one has torch light. So they go off hunting for a man they can’t see, or realize tripped and fell to the ground.

Aaron has managed to escape his would be killers for now, and takes off toward plan B. Plan B of course being the little shack in the woods where they both agreed they would meet up if they got separated. At least that’s a good idea.

Until it isn’t of course.

I mean come on, Found footage. People gotta not make it right?

I mean granted this film up until now has taken some turns I was not expecting, and its managed to keep me guessing. I genuinely was expecting the entire group to end up hunting both Aaron and Jim when they were all summoned outside. Then after seeing the ceremony I thought okay, maybe Jim is finally losing it and gave in to this group and is ACTUALLY going to hunt and kill his best friend in exchange for wealth and power.  Then after Jim got caught and everyone took off after Aaron I expected them again both to die.

What do we end up with?

Welp!

Aaron has made it to their safe haven and as he enters the cabin. Not only are the bad rich men there, in their mask with knifes waiting for him. But Jim is there, seated at a table. He calmly calls out to Aaron but next we hear, the hunting trumpets are blowing again. The men are shouting and out come the daggers. Aaron is out running again for his life. Only this time those men are much closer, they were ready for him and. He is unable to escape. We hear him screaming and the sound of stabbing before his necktie camera goes out.

But that’s not the end, oh no, no, no.

Next we see some, not so distorted faces. And Jim. There is someone editing the recorded footage for the documentary. Jim, is getting to interview for his documentary, the COO of Tarsus. Who is addressing the unfortunate reality that people like to believe in conspiracy theories and the idea that there is some all powerful force running things behind the scenes, and it unfortunately brings out the worst crack pots.

Jim tells us that they were caught at the party. That they asked Jim where the house was they planned to meet at if they got separated. He told them, and after a few questions their security let him go. The whole bull ceremony was meant to purposely scare the two. I tried to tell Aaron but couldn’t. He said those men did not kill Aaron, they pretended to stab him, made lots of loud noises and did what they could to scare him.

When Jim told him this and they were allowed to go, Aaron was incredibly upset and, that was the last night  Jim saw his friend Aaron.  He has no idea where he is now, where he went or what happened to him.

When asked about this, he tells the camera that his guess is, Aaron went to the same place Terrance did. Which is…oddly concerning.

Honestly his entire interview is the poster child for concerning. WE know what happened, and HE knows what happened. But he’s selling the narrative because, he wants to live, and not have his wife and kid killed either. Who also join him for this documentary sit down and his wife is absolutely not hiding it. Every shot of her she has the look of someone who has a gun pointed at them off screen. Jim is an absolute broken man with the look of someone who had to betray his best friend to save his family.

And as we are told how conspiracy theories are just par the course, and an unfortunate reality. There is no real threat. There is no murder games, hunting of people, and killing crackpots to silence them when they get too close. With that we see an all too happy couple of members of Tarsus, telling us how helpful and wonderful they truly are, and aren’t hiding from anyone. They’re right there in the open, there’s no silly conspiracy or anything in the world to worry about what so ever.

People just go missing now and then for their own reasons, they don’t end up poisoned, shot, stabbed in a ritual hunt. They just vanish to hippie communes.

With that our film comes to its end, and that’s the bottom line unless you want to end up missing as well.

The End.

What a surprise this was.

It could’ve gone down a few different ways, hell I almost expected Terrance to show up again, could’ve involved lizard people too. Lot of possibilities but I loved that they played it straight. It was believable in the craziest way, and well shot. Things looked legitimate and the fact at the end we actually get to see the documentary given its ending complments of the Tarsus people. It made a lot more sense with things earlier in the film.

There was a scene much earlier with Jim after Terrance goes missing when he mentions in a very solemn tone how he wished they never filmed any of it, that they never listened to Terrance. Now we know why. Even the parts of the documentary that show the Tarsus people taking over directing and finishing the project. From helping to clear Aaron’s home, having Jimmy there, Showing him as they edit the footage. Knowing full well what’d happen, what they could release with him directly linked and involved now.

It's all played very straight and I love it. The whole thing had a genuine feel to it. The actors were great and really sold the story and transformation each of them went through. There were times it worried me they might go overboard with the paranoia. Especially with the whole being followed, man on bike bit.

It’s happened a few too many times in a couple of these movies, to a point it’s more comical and ACTUAL filmed by paranoid idiots versus something more believable. Seriously if you want to see paranoia and men in black done horribly, laughably bad? I highly suggest Sir No Face.

It is, by far. The most…..well if you are having a bad day and need something to laugh at or watch in pure awe at this trying to be real. Enjoy, and your welcome.

I really have no complaints for this film, just compliments. Really it was a fun ride and I can see why it came up on so many found footage list.  It’s another film where the director, Christopher MacBride, unfortunately is rather short. The talent he hires though? Faaaar from that. We had James Gilbert as Jim, and Aaron Poole as, well Aaron. With A.C. Peterson as Terrance. All of whom have a solid body of work in both movies and television. Seriously if you go through the IMDB of the entire cast, it’s pretty spectacular. Now that might come off as a bit unfair to other found footage films given the general low budgetness of those and casting of unknowns. But fuck that. I’ve seen big budget ones go south horrible with both unknown and known actors. So kudos on them for making the right calls. Seriously.

Everything moved just right along, never once dragged or felt out of place. Things progressed one event to the next, and each stage was a natural progression. Just solid filmmaking and a good story. Two guys making a half hearted documentary about a semi crazy sounding guy that ends up missing, and they get sucked into a world they never felt a sane person could fall into. It’s just funny thinking about, remembering handfuls of other films that just somehow manage to go overboard or stumble on themselves while trying to look good. It’s just best to let things happen and fall into place sometimes. It’s just nice when you see something that makes you believe the shit rainbow is out of reach once again, and not emitting from your toilet.

I may not have any gripes, but I do have things I am thankful for. I am glad we didn’t have a dumb reveal of Terrance being at the head of things or being one of the men behind the mask that kills Aaron. And thank Xenu for not giving us aliens in politics. Seriously it happens way more often than it should in some of these films and it’s an answered prayer when a film doesn’t do it. I’m glad we didn’t have men in black hanging outside their home coming up to the door wearing sunglasses, blank faced.

Just a sit back, push play and enjoy the ride kinda movie night and boy was it needed.

We’ll see what tomorrow brings if this is as good as it gets, then I can be happy. Until tomorrow, if you end up at a secret society gathering and find a bunch of old people coming to chase you down and knife you? You better pull out the pistol you snuck in with you as a just in case and start making each bullet count. Or you know, strip down and double fist it like it’s the race of your life. It just might save yours.