screamingbanshee
What an freaky thing! Almost like a scary movie in its self. Not saying it's all true, but really interesting. Worth seeing, I find it odd they only showed it once on SciFi must have ticked someone off. The bird in the old farm house scared me so watch out. And who knew he died. The fact he has prewritten lines for the actors to say about his movies. The pond and the ice,said he saw died people as a small child. His movie are about his life, and know one ever knew. Not your normal interview at all, quite an strange twist. Also has information about The Village. One thing I can't seem to find the website that they talk to the teenager about.
laviniajoseph
Even though I have seen nothing with my own eye. I believe the buried secret could be / is a true fact and people are mocking the documentary because they simply don't understand it. Me and my friends was glued to the television in the middle of the night. People always mock what they do not know about and there so much we don't know. The evidence to me was quite hard and there was so many unanswered questions. The only scene from this I could question was the website scene on which you go on (m. nights) and one of the people that John Edwards spoke to on the computer which I think was raven 5 who knew what John was wearing and where he was. I though instantly oh there is a webcam somewhere but still had me thinking there might not of been. Also what was weird when the girl showed John and his crew, the pond in dead of the night (You would catch me anywhere like that at night) It actually quite motivated me myself to look into it which I am doing. Even if this doc was not true. I still know that what was showed does exist and we shouldn't mock it. I think they are just scared as we are maybe
bob_found
Definitely one of the most entertaining TV movies I've seen for a long time.I was shocked to see in a CNN report that some gutless fool had decided to demystify the film, stating that "this marketing strategy is not consistent with our policy at NBC." The reference to fans being upset to discover that they had watched a mockumentary was also surprising to me. Would it help them if they had an announcement before any film they watched stating that they were about to see a work of fiction? No doubt this would please Heresy who makes the ridiculous statement in his review on this site that the film should not have been passed off as a documentary at all. Well that's just brainless. Some things are best kept secret. Life would be boring without secrets, don't you think?
xchar
(This is a SPOILER only if you haven't read anything about the film.) Okay, so it didn't deliver what was promised (a real buried secret) and it was an hour too long. But director Nathaniel Kahn has a masterful command of the medium and the format. I didn't know beforehand whether it was factual or not, so I kept looking for "tells": little flaws that would reveal that it was scripted (for example, an actor moving their lips while another actor was speaking their lines). I never spotted such a lapse. Everyone was totally convincing--including Kahn and Shyamalan themselves. The geeky computer kid was great! Shyamalan's low-key reaction to the "invasion of privacy" was done just right. The casual introduction of key elements--crows, black cars on a country road--was handled nicely. I hope this documentary is included on the DVD--I want to watch it carefully again!