Hair of the Sasquatch

Hair of the Sasquatch

Mix a cryptofiction story with some correct questioning of the sexuality of Sasquatch and the marketing of Bigfoot, and you have the new film, Hair of the Sasquatch, to be released this Fall 2008.

The trailer:

The movie critic’s insights:

Hair of the Sasquatch revolves around Steve Hastings, a hunter, outdoorsman and taxidermist. After heading out on a hunting trip, he goes missing much to the alarm of his wife and neighbours. After three days, the search party is called off, only to see Hastings emerge from the forest unscathed and healthy. After much prodding, Hastings reluctantly reveals to close friends of his encounter and interaction with his sasquatch saviour. Director Dale Wolfe says that the outlandish turn of the film serves to bring home an often forgotten notion.

“Roger [Cove, Hair’s screenwriter]’s point is that no one ever thinks about the fact that if there are male sasquatches, there’s got to be female sasquatches,” says Wolfe. “If a guy’s been out in the bush for too long, I wonder how attractive she’s going to start looking.”

In addition to the unexpected association between Hastings and their hairy subject, Wolfe and Cove were looking for a new way to frame the sasquatch’s impact on others.

“We originally started out to make a short film and as we went to people and started talking about it, we sort of felt that we were going down the same old road as every other sasquatch movie that has a fake sasquatch in it or talking to people about if it exists,” Wolfe explains. “The thing we discovered in doing this, though, was all the companies [profiting, like] the Sasquatch Inn and people selling sasquatch burgers.”

The duo also traveled to the set of a Kokanee beer commercial, whose advertising campaign capitalizes on the sasquatch image, and explored the Vancouver 2010 Olympics use of the hairy fable as one of its iconic mascots. With this concept in place, Wolfe and Cove worked to achieve a subtle mix of reality and fiction in the film, which Wolfe explains wasn’t hard, given the sasquatch’s ever-growing reputation and the talent involved in the film.Amanda Hu

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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