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The first episode of the Fake Documentary Q series is presented as archival footage of a television program that involved a small crew investigating strange things upon the request of their viewers. This leads the team to getting a tape that will supposedly kill you when you watch it. They track down the video store where the tape was supposedly available and ask the clerk if he knows anything about the cursed tape. Just flat out ask him. The clerk isn’t able to help (he does ask if they mean The Ring which I probably laughed way harder at than I should have) but contacts the store manager for them when they let him know they work for a broadcasting company. The manager advises the rumors are true and he then goes through packed boxes of crap looking for it. Having worked at a non-chain video store in my younger days, I can attest to the storage nightmare that was old and broken tapes. The most unbelievable moment in this short thing is when the manager is able to find the damn thing within thirty minutes. With creepy-ass tape now in hand, they go about checking it out. Ignoring the helpful handwritten message on the box by the owner… who then throws it on anyways. Its low budget origins has them snickering but when the movie cuts to brief bits of over-dubbed weirdness, there’s a change in attitude. The manager admits it was a publicity thing and it should just be dismissed as a prank that started up as a creepy rumor amongst teenagers. The team do that and figure it’s properly debunked. Well, our narrator lets us know that misfortune soon followed and the producer decided it was best to shelf the recordings. Luckily for us thrill-seeking weirdos, we get to see if the curse holds true because they present the footage that supposedly leads to an untimely death. Under twenty minutes and carrying a minimal eerie vibe with it, it’s an okay introduction to the aim of the series. It feels like it carried the threat of having a nasty bite but when it finally struck, there were no teeth.
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