Terror Films has released a trailer for the wild manan upcoming film starring Michael Pare (bad moon, Curse of the Reanimator) confronting Bigfoot. The film, from director Ryan Justice (followers), was developed during the pandemic and will be released digitally later this month. The project also stars Lauren Crandall (Share or Die), Julian Green (lovecraft country), and Mike Reed. As with so many creature features, it focuses on young women who have begun mysteriously disappearing, only to attract the attention of law enforcement, volunteers, and reporters.
However, this is no ordinary Bigfoot movie; there is a bit of a regional touch. The monster here is the “skunk monkey”, also known as the Florida Bigfoot. It’s when those rumors start flying that a documentary film crew gets involved and sets the plot plot in motion. IMDb actually still has the movie listed as “The Wild Man: Skunk Apebut it’s probably better that they don’t have that in the title, as it doesn’t look like they’re going to lean into the comedy aspect of said title.
You can see the trailer here.
“We use our downtime to create and develop projects,” Justice said in a statement. “the wild man it turned out to be the perfect project to do at the time. As a Florida native, the legend of the skunk monkey (Florida Bigfoot) has always held our interest. We wanted to make a fun movie around the legend and do something different with the Bigfoot genre of movies.”
You can check out the official synopsis for the film below.
Young women have been going missing in Ochopee, FL without a single suspect in custody. A young journalist, Sara, convinces her team to join her investigation as she travels to Ochopee to document her discoveries, but they soon realize her presence in this town is not welcome. . Determined to find her story, Sara convinces her friends to stay with her because they’re onto something big. Meeting Dale, the town’s notorious conspiracy theorist, she’s convinced he knows more than he’s willing to share. The team follows Dale’s ridiculous theories, even accompanying him to the Florida swamps on his quest to show them “Wild Man”, hoping that he will somehow reveal his guilt. But what the crew discovers is a secret much deeper than fairy tales and legends. What they discover is much darker and more sinister than they expected.
the wild man It will premiere for the first time on digital platforms on September 30 before theatrical performances on the Terror Films and Kings of Horror YouTube channels.
