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          1. I watched Pennywise: The Story of It yesterday. I'm fascinated by this rising new phenomenon, of which it is a part: documentaries that have nothing to say. They line up a few interviews with clips of the thing they're documenting and then off they go to streaming...
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          Part of this, especially in horror, is the phenomenon of the 'fan documentary'. Someone kickstarts the doc with money from fans who just want their egos flattered and an intellectual excuse to watch glorified Best Of X clips somewhere other than YouTube, but it isn't just that...
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        Some of The Movies That Made Us and some of the Woodstock 99 docs aren't fan docs but are mechanically very similar, where they feel more like DVD behind the scenes sequences for a world where those no longer exist...
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      And some, like the nearly 4 and a half hour In Search of Darkness, feels half fan doc and half a desperate attempt to get a few interviews on record with major figures of the genre before they die but is still directionless and without the short of thesis you'd expect...
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