Willow Creek: New Bigfoot Movie
Posted by: KryptoKelly on February 24th, 2013
The next film in the found footage sub-genre pertaining to Bigfoot is coming at us via comedian turned filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait, and we’ve got the early details on this latest sliver of Sasquatchploitation right here. Dig it!
Bleeding Cool is reporting that Goldthwait has shot and completed his next movie entitled Willow Creek, and it is a cinéma vérité-style flick about Bigfoot. Not the truck either because that would be just weird. We’re talking the big hairy guy who’s lived in various forms of myth and legend now for decades.
The site adds that this project isn’t a schlocky horror picture and that Goldthwait has apparently mixed satire with some suspense, and overall his film is apparently rather driven by “exploring the idea of bearing witness.” They go on to report that there are various characters in the film who believe they’ve seen the elusive Sasquatch and give differing accounts, going so far as to even fight over them. Goldthwait is said to use this kind of tension to get in some observations on faith and religion.
Stay tuned and keep on Squatchin’!
Source: Dread Central
I remember when he was a comedian he was pretty funny, this sounds like it could be a good show.
I really liked Goldthwait’s hyper-violent satire “God Bless America”. Sure it was a flawed movie- marred by over-bearing preachyness, a relationship that teetered between sweet and pervy, and a rather out-of-touch concept of what it is like to be young, but it was still a good movie.
All those flaws aside, he was able to beautifully explore the loss of humanity and empathy in our society using black comedy and over-the-top violence. I really look forward to seeing how he will grow as a director.
Haven’t seen his other directing work, (and I can’t stand Jimmy Kimmel), but I can’t wait for this one! I will tell you right now, it will be about people and how they react when the normalcy of their world has been shattered by an event beyond their control. Don’t expect a movie about a boogeyman jumping out of the bushes- in other words, he will do it exactly how a bigfoot movie should be done.