This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) — watch online the Rob Reiner mockumentary that invented a genre, streaming on iFILM. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer play a British heavy metal band so convincing that early audiences genuinely weren't sure if the film was real.

Filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Reiner himself) tags along for Spinal Tap's American tour, catching every humiliation on camera. The venues keep shrinking. Managers come and go. The album cover gets rejected by every record store in the country. And the amps — yes — go up to eleven. Each stop on the tour produces a fresh disaster: musicians lost in the corridors under the stage, a Stonehenge prop the size of a sandwich, a spontaneous combustion problem in the drumming department.

Shot in the style of a real documentary, with no winks at the camera, this 82-minute film became the template for every fake documentary that followed. Watch This Is Spinal Tap (1984) online on iFILM.