Analysis of a documentary

short documentary review: Copycat By Charlie Shackleton  



Documentary on Rolfe Kanefsky is a documentary made without using a single camera and only using a single interview. the documentary is all made up of clips from old horror movies that have inspired Rolfe into the making of his first horror film in the late 80s. "there's nothing out there" was the title of the first movie where a group of friends go up to a cabin in the woods with a guy mike who is a massive horror fan just like Rolfe in the movie does things that you would not expect from a horror film in the late 80s he becomes self-aware that he and his friend are stuck in a plot of horror, in the movie mike gives very unusual reactions to jump scares just as fans of similar movies would react as opposed to characters from movies. At 19 Rolf has made a first post-modern horror movie but all of that has quickly faded. after 2 years of nothing a blockbuster Series Scream also know as the first horror movie to be self-aware, Rolfes movie "there is nothing out there became an uncredited insertion behind it with similar plot lines and character. 

The way that the documentary was made is very interesting as in the doc Rolfe was not getting an interview to buy the other voiceover but Charlie made it seem like they were talking to one another and made it sound like they were just finishing each other sentences through the whole thing, this made the whole thing flow extremely well and it made for an entertaining watch. with the combination of the reverent horror movie clips and anything else that has to do with the story of Rolfe for example the NFL being on the same time as the screening and the well-flowing conversation and it made it sound like through the whole thing Rolfe was referring to himself in 3rd person which I thought was very interesting and due to that it made a well put documentary. Copycat offers a great look into an obscure bit of film history, but it’s also a telling parable about the film industry itself — a place where ideas are recycled and remixed so often that it can be hard to tell who is borrowing from whom.

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