Incident at Loch Ness
Genre MOCKUMENTARY COMEDY
Theme Bigfoot / Cryptids
Style Mockumentary
Director: Zak Penn · Cast: Werner Herzog, Zak Penn, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain
The Story
Director Werner Herzog, playing an exaggerated version of himself, sets out to make a serious documentary about the myth of the Loch Ness Monster. A second crew, filming the making of that documentary, quietly captures his own production falling apart around him.
Verdict
A mockumentary within a mockumentary, and a genuinely funny one — Herzog sending up his own reputation is most of the appeal here. It loses some steam in its second half, and the layered documentary conceit doesn’t always hold up under scrutiny, but it’s a smart, different angle on cryptid horror that nobody else has really attempted.
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Willow Creek (2013) A straighter, more sincere take on the same Bigfoot-hunting premise, played entirely for dread instead of comedy. → Go to movie
Digging Up the Marrow (2014) Another film that blurs the line between the documentary crew and the horror they’re supposedly just observing. → Go to movie
Trollhunter (2010) Shares the same deadpan mockumentary tone, just applied to Norwegian folklore instead of a Scottish lake monster. → Go to movie
