Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project is an upcoming meta mockumentary horror by Dirty Shot Clean that offers both laughs and scares.
Found Footage follows a budding filmmaker’s attempt to produce his first feature, a found footage movie about Bigfoot. Through the eyes of an esteemed French documentary crew, the story follows his unlikely band of misfits as they struggle to keep the production afloat on a shoestring budget. All the while, mysterious and sinister occurrences begin to unfold behind the scenes, blurring the lines between movie magic and real life. As the shoot days get longer and scarier, the filmmakers quickly learn that they’ve stepped into a very real and very terrifying found footage film of their own. Check out the trailer here.
Found Footage is directed by Max Tzannes, and co-written by Max and David San Miguel, with editing and cinematography by Jacob Souza. In a very quirky and meta way DSC are similar to the filmmakers portrayed in their own film, a rag-tag group of filmmakers who came together to make something fun – luckily their ending appears more promising than those in their film.
The subversive mockumentary stars Brennan Keel Cook (The Pale Blue Eye), Chen Tang (Mulan), Erika Vetter (Somebody I Used to Know) and Dean Cameron (Straight Outta Compton, Summer School).
Drawing inspiration from Christopher Guest-style comedies like This is Spinal Tap and found footage classics like The Blair Witch Project, this hilarious thriller is a true indie. Produced by Tyler Friesen with Radio Silence – the team behind the most recent films in the Scream franchise, Scream and Scream VI – this quirky, laugh-out-loud mockumentary will appeal to horror fans and non-horror fans alike.
Check out our interview with DSC’s Max, David, and Jacob:
For more information, check out the film’s website at ThePattersonProject.org – a blog dedicated to uncovering the truth of what really happened up in Camp Nelson on the set of Chase Bradner’s film (click around for all sorts of secrets and scares).
Alternatively, inquiries regarding The Patterson Project can be directed to their missing persons hotline at 1-(844)-PAT-PROJ. Be aware that the representative seems a little off…
Vertical will debut Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project in select US theaters on June 20, and later on VOD starting June 24.