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.
Michael Worth and Lance Henriksen on the set of Sasquatch Mountain.
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:’.
Keep on digging everyone. The more we find, the more we understand.
- Michael Worth, actor/writer Sasquatch Mountain
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