Jeff Blake (Bret Lada) is on the verge of a major career change. He has a YouTube channel where he goes around the country critiquing food in various restaurants and has caught the attention of a network that want to make him a star. Jeff also has some other life changing news that he decides to share with his audience, he has recently found out that he has a half-brother, Andy Baker (Dustin Fontaine) and he wants to bring him into his life.

So, armed with his camera he goes to meet Andy and get to know him while introducing him to what he does. However, despite their initial meeting where they get along surprisingly well, their personalities start to clash in various ways. Meaning that Jeff quickly becomes more demanding and Andy slowly reveals his curiously unfiltered fascination with his brother.

Whatever happens, this will be the last time either of them is ever seen.

The Andy Baker Tape is a found footage horror movie about two men meeting for the first time and getting to know each other. Written and directed by Bret Lada and Dustin Fontaine and filmed during 2020, the movie seems like an ideal premise for people with a low budget and a limited cast and crew. However, it may also feel familiar to some audiences who know their indie horrors.

In the same way as 2014’s Creep, the premise is simple and effective. The audience thinks they know where the story is going, but it’s the journey that matters. However, with Creep being more of a comedy and setting the precedence, it shows what The Andy Baker Tape is lacking.

Creep slowly builds the tension and is played for unnerving laughs, but The Andy Baker Tape is played as realistically as possible. This means that for a lot of the time there is very little plot and a little more character exploration may have fleshed things out more.

Also, the final act may give its audience what they want, but the way that it gets there feels forced as the tone seems to shift in order to please them. The Andy Baker Tape may not be all that original, but in trying to be too real it unfortunately forgets to build up its characters successfully.

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