tech
Tribe review
Dan Asma’s impressive debut feature follows a retired professor, played by the director himself, whose research leads him to Lovecraftian terrors
TL;DR
- The film is a debut feature by Dan Asma, compared to 'The Blair Witch Project'.
- It follows a retired professor investigating a lost sect in the Cuyamaca mountains and Mount Shasta.
- The narrative uses a modern, multimedia found-footage style with vlogs, Zoom calls, and Facetime.
- The professor is searching for clues related to his deceased friend, an orphaned cult member.
- The film incorporates Lovecraftian elements and eschatological themes.
- The reviewer notes that the film's rapid multimedia approach sometimes overshadows pacing for dread.
- The film suggests that technological compulsions to record and seek meaning are a corrupting force.