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The Internet Movie Database normally allows users to rate films only up to ten stars, but specifically for Spinal Tap, the site allows users to rate the film eleven stars, referring to the "Up to eleven" scene. [56] On IGN, This Is Spinal Tap was the only DVD—and seemingly the only thing reviewed on IGN—to get 11 out of 10. [57]
In the run-up to 2011, Spinal Tap fans created a movement to make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day." [ 3 ] The movement was organised by The Nigel Tufnel Day Appreciation Society and Quilting Bee in Favor of Declaring & Observing 11 November 2011 as Nigel Tufnel Day (in Recognition of Its Maximum Elevenness) .
A mockumentary (a portmanteau of mock and documentary) is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events, but presented as a documentary. [1] The term originated in the 1960s but was popularized in the mid-1990s when This Is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner used it in interviews to describe that film. [2] [3] [4]
The 1984 favorite, which stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner, helped popularize the "mockumentary" film genre and tells the story of the fictional band Spinal Tap ...
The upcoming sequel to This Is Spinal Tap will be turning the pathetic knobs all the way to 11. ... The former album received a made-for-TV mockumentary that primarily consisted of concert footage ...
It's a (mostly) unseen classic. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
Spinal Tap may refer to: Spinal tap (medical procedure), a procedure in which a needle is inserted into the spinal canal; This Is Spinal Tap, 1984 mockumentary about a fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap (band), the fictional band from the film
Spinal Tap is a fake band, of course, and this rockumentary is actually a mockumentary parodying popular musical docs like The Last Waltz. Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls Still Takes It All the Way to 11