As I’ve previously said, in fact, I think everyone has found footage can be hit or miss. Tribe came up in my Facebook feed, and I figured, why not? There was something in it that caught my interest.

For the most part, the film works; it stands up, but there are some pretty low-budget visual effects and AI imagery, which tends to be glaringly obvious. If you can get around those small (or not so small) hurdles, the film is fairly well put together, and the cosmic horror lurking at the corners of the film is delightfully disconcerting.

Charlie (Keaton Asma) is contacted by his ex-wife, Kate (Nicole Jones), and given some old tapes from a dead friend. What he finds on them are shocking and sends him on a mind-boggling journey in the mountains. A journey that connects to a strange church, possible intergalactic (interdimensional?) beings.

The found footage stuff works, Asma is fairly entertaining on screen, he has some enjoyable moments as he gets pulled further and further into the mystery he’s found himself in.

And it literally begins to have an effect on him. It causes a loss of memory, physical changes, and an inability to comprehend what is happening around him, leading to hallucinatory encounters.

The film runs shorter than an hour and a half, and doesn’t overstay its welcome, which works to its benefit, because the second half of the film is where we get a lot of the less-than-stellar visual effects, and the AI images (ugh).

There are a lot of interesting ideas at work here, and it’s crafted well. It’s better than a lot of the cheaper found footage out there. Asma, the director, crafts and shoots a good story. Charlie is given a lot of interesting personal baggage, especially around the character of Kate.

The film’s mythology is very interesting, and outside of the (ugh) AI images, everything about the film is incredibly engaging. The mysterious Mount Shasta gets namechecked, and those who know anything about it can glean what may be going on in the narrative.

It has some great locations, some nice drone work, the night sequences are solid, and like I said, the mythology of the film is something I can totally dig into. There are some Lovecraftian overtones of cosmic horror, and that always gets me jazzed.

I found the film intriguing, and I do believe I would like to see more from Dan Asma, writer/director.

And I would like more cosmic horror, please.