Review: Project MKHEXE (2025)
By William Pattison
This time I have a mockumentary horror film…
Tim, an amateur filmmaker, returns home to film his brother
Sean's funeral after his apparent suicide. But in the days that follow, Tim
discovers Sean's obsession with an Internet urban legend that does not exist
about a secret government mind control experiment gone horrifically wrong,
Project MKHEXE.
I’m not a huge government conspiracy fan but this
mockumentary has a very Lovecraftian aspect.
I found that I admired how much love and care the filmmaker
used in creating the lore around the MKHEXE project. The film is literal art
piece when it came to the detail of the brother’s research into this supposed Internet
urban legend that doesn’t exist and
those who seek it end up having horrifying and tragic ends. I loved how in the
film MKHEXE affects the people around those who seek it. The film is well shot
and acted. There are no under or overdone performances which makes this film
that much more disturbing and helps draw you into the huge complicated puzzle.
Don’t expect any real scares or a
monster at the end. This is not that type of found footage. You get the truth
about MKHEXE, but like the works of Lovcraft the creators know they can’t really
do the other world terror justice so you get a lot of strobing and random
images, which works well. The truth is the thing you don’t see is more
disturbing than anything a filmmaker can produce. If you are into found footage
films you just might enjoy this film. This is definitely not for the
uninitiated. But if you love government conspiracy and Lovecraftian terror this
is your film and I will happily recommend it.
You can find this film on Tubi TV and Fawesome…
