The Rake Investigation (2025)
The Rake Investigation (2025)
Overview
The Rake Investigation is a 2025 comedy-horror mockumentary directed by Toby Otero and written by Mitch Laing. The Bog crew investigates sightings of the cryptid The Rake in the dark Northeast forests, expanding the Bog Cinematic Universe. Starring Mitch Laing, Benjamin Gross, and Jeff Jopling as the investigative team.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoRating & Dimensions
Not Rated
Overview
The Rake Investigation is a 2025 comedy-horror mockumentary directed by Toby Otero and written by Mitch Laing. The Bog crew investigates sightings of the cryptid The Rake in the dark Northeast forests, expanding the Bog Cinematic Universe. Starring Mitch Laing, Benjamin Gross, and Jeff Jopling as the investigative team.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Primary
The film maintains a neutral political stance, as its core narrative revolves around apolitical supernatural encounters without advancing any ideological positions. The absence of social, economic, or governmental critiques underscores this impartiality.
The film features an all-white cast in a cryptid horror narrative focused on monster hunting, with no evident diversity in representation or thematic exploration of equity and inclusion.
Secondary
The film depicts a group of adult investigators hunting a cryptid, with no central or peripheral portrayal of family units, relationships, or norms. This absence of family content leads to a neutral assessment.
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on a cryptid hunt in a found-footage horror format.
The film features no transgender characters or themes. It centers on a group hunting a cryptid creature known as The Rake in a horror narrative without any exploration of gender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film presents original male characters investigating the genderless Rake cryptid in a series format, without any adaptations featuring swapped genders from source material.
The Rake Investigation presents original characters within the Bog Creature Universe, an indie horror series lacking source material or prior installments with established racial depictions. Returning actors portray consistent roles without mismatches.