Revenant Relocation Officers
2019 · 14m · UK
Directed by Robert Duncan
Genres: comedy, documentary
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A mockumentary following two bumbling 'Revenant Relocation Officers' — Bob McCracken and Mike Taylor — as they form a paranormal patrol unit to remove ghosts from properties around Edinburgh.
Picked by Zoe
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Dry Scottish ghost-removal mockumentary — the genre is so well-worn it's a tartan blanket now, but Edinburgh deadpan plus subtitles-for-non-Scots is at least a specific bit. Mild interest.
Edinburgh ghost-removal mockumentary in the What We Do in the Shadows-and-Peep-Show register — the dry-bureaucratic-supernatural pairing is reliable but the territory is well-claimed. Pleasant rather than essential.
Fourteen-minute dry Scottish mockumentary applying bureaucratic mundanity to ghost removal is a tight high-concept that lives entirely on the deadpan rhythm of the two leads. Klipist offers subtitles for non-Scots, which signals the dialect commitment is real and the comedy is rooted in voice.