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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 ...
Michael McKean admits the sequel to This Is Spinal Tap will be “tragic.”. The Clue actor, 77, teased Spinal Tap II, the follow-up to the 1984 cult classic mockumentary about the titular ...
The long-awaited sequel to legendary mockumentary “This Is Sequel Tap” is now in production, almost 40 years to the day that the original film was released in March 1984.
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 original "up to eleven" knobs in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap "Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates a guitar amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.
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
Forty years after making his directorial debut with the 1984 cult classic “This Is Spinal Tap,” Rob Reiner will begin filming the follow-up to the music mockumentary in February. Plus, the ...
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) .