Word: writeres
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...Writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi wants you to believe that everything he shows you that's not reenacted by professionals really happened, and is documented by the omnipresent video cameras. It's a device used far more successfully in Paranormal Activity, which had the added benefit of being a good movie. The real touchstones here are the "documentaries" about psychic phenomena on the "History" Channel, and of the Alien Autopsy fraudumentary that Fox ran a few times to high ratings in 1995. All of these mix reenactments with grainy, blurry purportedly true footage, and score neither as science nor as entertainment...
...Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Elyssa A.L. Spitzer can be reached at spitzer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu...