INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS [2004]

 WHAT WOULD HALLOWEEN (OR THE COUNTDOWN) BE WITHOUT A CRYPTID OR TWO. 

This time we have the grandmommy of all cryptids:  the Loch Ness Monster! We also have maverick filmmaker Werner Herzog going on an expedition to find Nessie.  Or not.  This is an hilarious mockumentary which is so true to life in it's wackiness that it could stand for every movie ever produced.  I'm sure this stuff goes on on every production ever made!  Screenwriter/Director Zak Penn is absolutely wonderful as a typically asshole producer who tries to force his dopey ideas on everyone;

from the boiler suits he tries to make everyone wear (with "Expeditition Crew" misspelled on the back of every one

to the bikini-model (Kitana Baker)he tries to pass off as a sonar expert

to the dopey fake Nessie head he tries to get Herzog to film.  Everyone in the movie plays themselves and, unusually for these things, come off as totally believable in their performances!  I suppose we owe that to Herzog who is an old master at this.  Of course, there's no real horror here. . . .but there also kinda is . . . . either way, though, it does concern a monster and that's good enough for me to watch during the Countdown for Halloween.