Tahoe Joe

2022

Horror

2
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 533 533

bigfoot mockumentary found footage

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Plot summary

In 2022, filmmaker Dillon Brown set out with Green Beret and wilderness survival expert, Michael Rock, to document an attempt to find a missing person. What they found instead was a horror thought to be a myth.

Director

Michael Rock Photo
Michael Rock

Top cast

Michael Rock Photo
Michael Rock as Michael Rock
Hunter Nino Photo
Hunter Nino as Ben Logan
Dillon Brown Photo
Dillon Brown as Dillon Brown
Amanda Morgan Photo
Amanda Morgan as Amanda Morgan
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813.17 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.47 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Armin_Nikkhah_Shirazi 6 / 10

A meta-modernist Sasquatch Found Footage Movie

TAHOE JOE's title refers to a large humanoid creature which supposedly roams in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and dispatches people who have the misfortune of crossing its path. The film tells the story of two filmmakers who try to find it because the friend of one of them who was looking for Joe disappeared there, and they wish to ascertain what happened.Despite the fact that this is a bargain basement budget production of a found footage concept that has been done many times, it still manages to squeeze some fun into it. It also breaks a few genre conventions, especially at the end, but what struck me the most was the meta-modernistic approach it took to its subject.Meta-modernism is a relatively recently identified trend in the arts and in philosophy which can be viewed as the successor to post-modernism and modernism. Its main feature is that it combines elements from these two, sometimes by jumping from one approach to the other in short succession.The main characters use their real names and elements of their real lives in this film. This has been done in found footage horror before (for example, DASHCAM (2021), SHADOW OF THE MISSING (2018), BE MY CAT (2015), DIGGING UP THE MARROW (2014) ) in order to make the fiction seem more real, and enhance the impact of the horror when it eventually happens. Nevertheless, annihilating the boundary between fiction and reality can also be regarded as a post-modernist technique.Another such technique pertains to the in-movie found footage of the missing friend, which the director character describes as "exactly how he would set up a horror movie". Since we are actually watching a horror movie, this can be regarded not just as the movie poking fun at itself but also as a deconstruction of a horror trope.On the other hand, much of the film and especially the chase scenes are played straight, and there is a definite story arc which is more in line with a modernist narrative.I don't believe that the film-makers set out to make a movie with such theoretical ideas in mind; rather these ideas are meant to summarize certain aspects of cultural trends in the past and the present which inevitably imprint themselves in the output of the times. In short, the movie has these features because the Zeitgeist of a movie like TAHOE JOE reflects the last decade or so, as of this writing.The movie is entertaining and does the most with its budget. It is not the best example of this particular found-footage sub-genre (that honor goes, in my opinion to EMBEDDED (2012)) but it is decent enough for fans of Sasquatch, found footage or even horror movies in general.
Reviewed by serinaluna-291-266902 3 / 10

Mediocre at best

I generally do not write movie reviews. In fact, this is the first review I've posted on IMDB. The obviously biased 10/10s prompted me to leave a real review.I love found footage movies and was pretty excited to see that Tahoe Joe had good ratings so I decided to give it a shot.The acting is not great. Most of the actors are obviously acting with poorly executed emotions. The first footage of bigfoot looks like footage of a man wearing a ghillie suit. Not animal like at all. The footage that prompts the filmmakers to go looking for Bigfoot is laughable.I wish I was watching this with friends so we could riff on it. I recommend that's how you experience this one.
Reviewed by arungeorge13 4 / 10

Not the worst FF flick on Tubi, and I've seen quite a few! [+41%]

I liked the makers' attempt at keeping almost everything meta, but this found-footage film takes a tad too long in its setup, whereas the payoff is pretty minimal. The acting by the kid was pretty terrible, and they didn't do much with the third character Shane. He is presented as a storehouse of information, but the protagonists never question his sources or intentions. Why would he decisively get drunk when he knows the area is dangerous? It's obvious that all the FF horror movies on Tubi only feature scares (if any) in the final 10-15 minutes, and that's the case here too. The creature effects are not bad, but the stakes felt low. Make a part 2 maybe, with these guys (+ additional crew) returning to the forest to prove a point to the world that they weren't staging it. This felt kind of incomplete.
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