Batsh*t Valley

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Batsh*t Valley is a 2019 two-part episode of the acclaimed Emmy Award-nominated mockumentary series Documentary Now! .

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It parodies the hit Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country [1] and the 2012 documentary film The Source Family . [2]

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In 1980, [3] 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 Zadegan [4] ) has taken over the small town of Chinook, Oregon (soon to be renamed Ra-Shawbard's Butthole). [5]

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