It's Shite Being Scottish!

Well, I don't know if that's actually true... it's just one of the few lines I can remember from Trainspotting. That's one of my favorite movies, but I'm lousy about quoting stuff.

I love the Loch Ness Monster. You got your Bigfoot, your UFOs, your Chupacabra and other unexplained phenoms... but I like me a good old fashioned dinosaur cruising around in a murky loch in Scotland. It turns out that there's this movie coming out soon called Incident at Loch Ness. Directed by Zak Penn, it features filmmaker Werner Herzog as he leads an expedition to Loch Ness to track down the famous monster. He calls his documentary Enigma of Loch Ness, which is a play on one of his former films. Penn is making a documentary of the making of the documentary. You see where this is going?

"Is it documentary, mockumentary, science fiction or comedy? Decide for yourself, but whatever it is, it's one of the funniest films in the festival." This is how it is described in the program for the Seattle Film Festival.

And like all films with spooky subject matter, there is a mystery surrounding this one. I guess. Like the bizarre happenings on the set of The Exorcist or the sudden deaths of various cast members of Poltergeist, a fired crew member of Loch Ness claims that two members of the crew were actually killed by Nessie during the filming of this mockumentary, and that the American filmmakers don't care.

Well, if Nessie did indeed kill a couple folks during the filming... she's a plesiosaur for chrissakes! She probably got hungry or something.

But really, Jeff Goldblum is in this film too. How seriously are you supposed to take it?