From David and Nathan Zellner, the sibling filmmakers who gave us Kimiko, the Treasure Hunter and Damsel, comes this intimate look at a very unusual family. How unusual, you ask? Well, they’re sasquatches. Or bigfoots, if you prefer. Bigfeet, maybe? The jury’s out on the correct plural form.
How to watch Sasquatch Sunset in Australia
Sasquatch Summer is now available to rent or buy in Australia.
What is Sasquatch Sunset about?
Essentially a kind of cryptozoological nature documentary (well, mockumentary), the film takes us through a season in the lives of a group of four sasquatches: a bonded alpha pair, another adult male, and a juvenile male. No, they don’t have names; they don’t even speak. We simply get to observe them in their daily lives and rituals, including dealing with the gradual encroachment of humanity into their habitat.
Indeed, the film takes place around Willow Creek, a town famous for its Sasquatch sightings. How famous, you ask? Well, it’s where the most famous bigfoot footage ever was recorded: the Patterson-Gilmin film. Bobcat Goldthwait even named his bigfoot movie after it.
The cast of Sasquatch Sunset
Don’t expect to hear their voices or even see their faces, but we’ve been assured that the people under the prosthetic make-up are co-director Nathan Zellner as the alpha male, Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Riley Keough as the female, The Social Network‘s Jesse Eisenberg as the other male, and Christophe Zajac-Denek as the juvenile. Eisenberg, who’s also a producer, brought in movement and mime coach Lorin Eric Salm, who he’d worked with in preparation for playing Maecel Marceau in the WWII drama Resistance, to put the cast through bigfoot school. It’ll be interesting to see the results.
Sasquatch Sunset trailer
Why we’re excited about Sasquatch Sunset
Hey, look, it’s certainly different, right? And different counts. It’s not like you’re gonna get another dialogue-free bigfoot movie any time soon.
