Review: Destroy This Tape (2025)
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob’s Blog
This time I got yet another hybrid found footage film to
review…
In 2007, a group of five teenagers went camping in the woods
of Alpine Oaks Provincial Park, never to return. All that was found was a
ruined campsite and a camcorder holding the footage of their final days.
Ok, as stated above this film is a hybrid take on a found
footage film. This is a subgenre of found footage that annoys the purists.
The first 35 minutes of this film is standard found footage
with the bad film quality and glitches. It is about a standard group of
teenagers who camp in a bad place and get murdered by a masked killer who lives
in the woods…as I said standard issue. But then it suddenly changes into a
standard film about a failing author who has decided to save his career by
doing a true crime novel about the missing kids and the masked serial killer.
The beginning of the author’s portion is him trying to interview people from
the area. He is a bit of a dick (personally I like the fellow) and gets told
to fuck off. Of course, then he goes and decides to stay at the crime scene and
investigate and that is when the film actually gets interesting. He finds a
survivor and the owner of the “murder
cabin” who seems like a very chill, friendly, person. Stupid, arrogant, people
in the woods with a purported killer are so much fun. The twist made me laugh
my ass off. To put it simply this film goes completely Stephen King.
All in all I loved this film. As an author I loved the
humor. Most found footage films are so dry, but this one actually put a smile
on my face.
If you are obsessive about fan footage films you will hate
this. But if you are a fan of a certain Stephen King book you will be in
stitches. This film is brilliant to me and I highly recommend it to Stephen
King fans…lol…
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