Sasquatch Mountain Thank You

Here’s a message to Cryptomundo viewers, from the writer/actor/producer behind the just broadcast Bigfoot narrative fiction seen on the Sci-Fi Channel the night of September 9, 2006.

Loren, the work that you and people like you do in “The World Of The Highly Un-researched” is a blessing to us filmmakers in many ways.

Much like the western genre, Cryptozoology is an area that borders on myth and reality at the same time and generates so much intrigue and possibility that it makes the storytelling almost automatic. As an actor/director/writer I find so much drama, conflict and passion (all areas of great storytelling) from the experiences and ideas that emanate from these pages and the minds of those like yourself as they try to unfold all these mysteries. Ever since I was a child, Sasquatch and Loch Ness have fascinated me and being able to write about this fascination in my business has been a real treat. Maybe my small way of contributing something positive back to the community.

Devil On The Mountain (a/k/a Sasquatch Mountain) was a genre film that attempted to dig a little deeper into that representation of it’s main subject: Bigfoot. Even if just in keeping him more true to our understanding rather than reinvent him as some savage monster, though a story based on action and at times horror, both my director Steven R. Monroe and I wanted to honor as much of the “heart” of the Bigfoot community as possible in the creation of it.

Sequences that offered many winks to those in “The Know” were cut (e.g. interviews at Willow Creek after the annual Bigfoot parade, Lance’s rejection by the community as a kook ala’ Patterson, a discussion of the importance of the beast in everyone’s life).

I like to think enough was still there to give the Sci Fi crowd their movie and yet keep the legend represented in a truthful way. A few of those little touches (e.g. our Sasquatch actor “Tiny” Ron was shown the Patterson footage a dozen times so he could get the stride right, the distinction between Yeti and Sasquatch) luckily remained to color our “star” appropriately.

The Sasquatch fan in me feels the ultimate film on the Big Guy is still waiting to be made. The power, history and mystery of these “Apes In America” has yet to be tapped and brought to life on celluloid in the dramatic form. And maybe, just maybe, with any luck I’ll have a hand in that. And if so, I can promise you one thing Loren, you will be the first one I’ll be calling after I type ‘Fade In, Scene 1:’.

Thank you Michael for visiting and sharing your words. Dear Commenters…If you cannot say anything polite, please refrain from leaving your remarks here, which will just be deleted.

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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