Tribe Review: Somebody Please Take the Videotapes

Tribe (Film review) — A Saviour Of Screenlife Horror

First-time fiction director Dan Asma piles found footage onto found footage in Tribe. He opens with an ominous Cuyamaca poem before dragging a retired university teacher (played by Asma) deep into a digitally and physically claustrophobic cosmic horror. One that’s likely to stir a bit of nostalgia for when found footage felt fresh. We first…

Tribe Review: Somebody Please Take the Videotapes

Devin Adams is a retired university lecturer who picks up video processing as a hobby and immediately gets handed some obviously cursed videotapes. He does not burn them. He investigates. This is the problem with Tribe, and also the entire plot. Written and directed by Dan Asma, co-owner of trailer marketing company Buddha Jones (Hereditary, Annihilation, It), this is his narrative feature debut, and he plays the lead himself. The film had a sol…