If the idea of a Bigfoot movie doesn’t automatically excite you, I think it’s time we see other people. Variety reports that Dora Madison Burge, Samuel Davis, Roger Edwards, Chris Osborn and Denise Williamson have all joined the cast of Exists, a found footage horror film from director Eduardo Sanchez.
You may remember Sanchez as the director of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, the precursor to the found footage style (send your hate mail to him). The movie will follow a group of friends whose intended weekend of fun and hedonism in the remote woods of Texas goes awry when a Bigfoot appears out of nowhere and begins to stalk and kill them one by one.
This will be Sanchez’s first foray into the found footage world he helped create since his hit 1999 movie but he has been keeping busy; his last stint in the director’s chair, Lovely Molly (Sanchez co-wrote this and Exists with Jamie Nash), premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and is getting a limited theatrical release courtesy of Image Entertainment on May 18th of this year (check out the official trailer).
While the announcement of another found footage movie normally brings out reactions such as “meh” and “really?” from me, Exists is different; first off, it has the director of one of the most successful independent movies of all-time at the helm and one who has already proven himself capable of handling the style (even if The Blair Witch Project hasn’t exactly aged well). Second, it’s a horror movie about a killer Bigfoot. Considering the creature’s track record in the world of direct-to-DVD (most Sasquatch/Bigfoot movies are painfully bad) this probably shouldn’t be my reaction but I’ve never been known to be that rational of a person. I can’t wait for Exists to, ahem, exist.
Exists begins production next week.
Anyone else excited at the prospect of Exists or does the oversaturation of the found footage style and the low-quality of other Bigfoot films make you want to avoid having anything to do with this?