Batsh*t Valley is a 2019 two-part episode of the acclaimed Emmy Award-nominated mockumentary series Documentary Now!.
Inspirations It parodies the hit Netflix docuseries Wild Wild CountryThe Best ‘Documentary Now!’ Episodes, and the Must-Watch Docs That Inspired Them - The Peabody Awards and the 2012 documentary film The Source Family.‘Documentary Now!’: Behind the Scenes of How Owen Wilson Became a Cult Leader - IndieWire
Summary In 1980,See ‘Documentary Now!’ Spoof ‘Wild Wild Country’ With ‘Batsh-t Valley’ - Rolling Stone cult leader Father Ra-Shawbard (Owen Wilson), under the surveillance of FBI agent Bill Dawes (Michael Keaton), and his followers (alongside his militant second-in-command Ra-Sharir (Necar ZadeganOwen Wilson on Playing a Cocaine-Fueled Cult Leader in ‘Documentary Now!’ - The Daily Beast)) has taken over the small town of Chinook, Oregon (soon to be renamed Ra-Shawbard's Butthole).Documentary Now! provides a wildly accurate satire of Netflix's cult docuseries|A.V. Club
See also Pittsburgh Steelers - the robes that Ra-Shawbard's followers wore were based on the color schemes of the Super Bowl-winning team Holy Hell - 2016 documentary about the Buddhafield cult
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External links Part 1 on IMDb Part 2 on IMDb