The Wildman of the Navidad
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 18th, 2007
From the writer/producer of the original ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ comes this vintage horror tale based on the recently acquired journals of Texan Dale S. Rogers. His veracious accounts debunk history books to tell the harrowing story of a rural Texas community whose residents were terrified for years by a mysterious creature inhabiting the nearby woods.
Check out the film’s website at The Wildman of the Navidad.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
I love movies like this so I’ll be sure and try and watch it.I do see a dash of Texas Chainsaw in there also. I was reading on their website and found this interesting:
Why would a sasqautch type of creature need a bible and novel, let alone a t-shirt?
Haha maybe they are far more sophisticated than we give them credit for!!!!
hey craig & everyone wow this is a great new update article about new movie the wildman of the navidad. i hope it comes on dvd realy soon. thanks bill green 🙂
If that picture has any hint, I suspect the ‘wildman’ is not a bigfoot type critter, but rather vicious, ragged, homicidal man. I notice he is shown with antlers in hand to be used as clawlike weapons.
Hmmmm, well to be honest the fewer movies which show sasquatch as aggressive natured animals the better I say. Because if the day comes that proof of their existence is substantiated, then we might have a reoccurrence of the “JAWS” effect, if anybody remembers that? Back in the 70’s when Jaws came out every fisherman and his friend went out and killed great whites through fear and for sport. This is something I don’t think we should forget because there is a lesson to be learned there.
I saw this film at the premiere last month and it was great!! It really captured the feeling of those old films so perfectly. I don’t want to ruin anything but bigfoot fans won’t be disappointed!
In the mid 1800’s there was in Jackson county just south of Lavaca county where Sublime is, there were reports of the “Wildwoman of the Navidad” reported in newspaper in the area and in some northern circulations. There were some eyewitnesses but the name wildwoman was given because of the screams it would make at night along the Navidad bottoms. The area of Jackson and Lavaca counties are both within what we call here in texas call “the Big Thicket”. This area has had many sighting of what are called “boogers”, “wooly boogers” or even “boogey men” since it has been settled.
When I say settled I mean the edges of the thicket. There are very few communities actually in the thicket itself and only a few roads in the area that penetrate it. Southeast Texas and East Texas both have multiple sightings a year.
The film itself looks campy and fun but know that the content may have more truth than most will believe.
It’s funny that in the trailer the citizen even calls it a “booger”.
One more thing, the use of tools by these types of creatures is not unheard of ceroill. There have been sightings reported in other parts of the United States that claim the “creature” uses branches as clubs, so the idea of it using antlers isn’t that farfetched. As far as attacking people, I wouldn’t think so. But I have read reports where groups of creatures have herded deer into a gauntlet and were then clubbed to death. Contrary to popular belief they are not strictly vegetarian.
Stooge, I’m aware of that in general. I was making my comment about the poster. Not about bigfoot types as a general thing. It looks like it’s wearing ragged clothes composed of bits of hides, and probably a mask of some sort with the tusks as part of it. But that’s pure speculation on my part.
Aye I do believe that this is going to be one of those films were you want it to be as simple as the wildman being exactly that, just a sasquatch/wildman/bigfoot. But it turns out that its that age old scooby doo ending of a dude in a suit using the wildman figure to scare people and the such like.
Which is a bit dissapointing if it is so.
Sorry for the misunderstanding C., to me the film looks like Boggy Creek 2007. Almost looks like torn up blue jeans as a costume. I’ll watch it and feel ashamed. I’m not crazy about B movie depictions of the unknown, then again most major studios won’t touch this kind of material.
That’s ok, Stooge. I’m just making a supposition anyway. Let’s hope it is a new boggy creek type movie. Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
hey everyone thats a awesome movie poster for the wildman of the navidad. i realy like the artwork on it. but im still looking forward to the dvd to come out soon or near future. thanks bill green 🙂
i saw this movie at the premiere last month and was very surprised. it really captures the feel of those old movies perfectly and doesn’t go too far into the CHEESE zone if you know what i mean. i don’t want to ruin it for anyone but Bigfoot fans should not be disappointed