Here’s a surefire way to get me to attend a screening of your home-grown, no-budget movie: conceive it as an homage to the grimy backwoods horror classics of the ‘70s and put Bigfoot in it. Make it a Texas Bigfoot movie and I’ll be first in line. (I attended the Texas Bigfoot Conference a few years back, and you can read all about it – I know you saw this coming – in Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema.) That’s more or less what first-time feature filmmakers Justin Meeks and Duane Graves have done (with an assist from original Texas Chain Saw Massacre writer/producer Kim Henkel) in Wild Man of the Navidad.
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