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‘Sasqua: The Lost Bigfoot Film of Massachusetts’ – Upcoming Doc Unearths 1970s Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen

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You’ve probably never heard of the Bigfoot horror movie Sasqua, made and released in the 1970s but completely lost to the sands of time. It’s a story that filmmaker John Campopiano (Pennywise: The Story of IT, Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made) is gearing up to tell in Sasqua: The Lost Bigfoot Film of Massachusetts, a new documentary that’s now in the works from Providence-based production company Atomic Clock.

Described by The Boston Globe as “an obscure horror movie about a hippie commune attacked by cryptids,” the elusive Sasqua has never seen the light of day outside of a brief and localized theatrical release back in the 1970s, and Campopiano has set out to uncover as much information, and as many relevant interview subjects, as he possibly can.

The film itself, unfortunately, is considered completely and entirely lost at this point in time, with only very grainy old trailer footage surfacing on YouTube over the years. Directed by Channon Scot, Sasqua was filmed in and around Lowell, Massachusetts in the early 1970s, and Campopiano’s ultimate dream is to not only tell the story but also find the missing film.

In his own way, you could say, Campopiano is on the hunt for Bigfoot.

The Boston Globe notes in their report on the project, “If you have any insight about it, John Campopiano and his crew of investigators would like to know. The group is on a quest to track down long-lost film reels of the homegrown monster flick and hoping to speak to people who have watched or helped produce it for their upcoming documentary.”

Campopiano tells The Boston Globe, “There’s all kinds of things that can happen to a film. It could be misfiled in a film archive somewhere, so it’s on a shelf where no one thinks to look for it. It could be in someone’s basement, or maybe it was thrown out by mistake. Maybe it burned up in a fire. I don’t know. Nobody seems to know.”

Coming soon, Sasqua: The Lost Bigfoot Film of Massachusetts looks to be a sort of spiritual companion piece to Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made, which is now streaming on SCREAMBOX. Campopiano has a clear passion for regional horror cinema that’s fallen through the cracks over the years, becoming a sort of cinema cryptozoologist along the way. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more about this project, which is now filming locally.

Campopiano’s co-producer and co-writer on the doc is Matt Spry.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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