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| Bobcat Goldthwait understands what Bigfooting is all about. |
Recently piece promoting his stand-up functioning for this weekend (Friday, Aug. 16, together with Saturday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m. together with 10 p.m.) at the Liquid Lounge inwards Boise, ID, Bobcat Golthwait talked well-nigh his recent constitute footage Bigfoot motion painting Willow Creek.
Read the excerpt below from BoiseWeekly:
Read the excerpt below from BoiseWeekly:
[Bobcat's] latest, Willow Creek, is currently making cinema festival rounds together with is in all likelihood his biggest pace inwards a dissimilar direction--not alone from his early on stand-up, but from the canon of his cinema creations: Willow Creek is a found-footage cinema well-nigh Bigfoot. And although it is non without humor, Willow Creek, is definitely a horror movie.
"It's a scary movie. It's a divergence from my other movies. There's comedy inwards the kickoff but thence it goes pretty straight-up horror," Goldthwait told Boise Weekly.
Willow Creek, which was shot on location, is well-nigh a yoke who hikes into the remote woods close the pocket-size short town of Willow Creek, Calif., searching for the site of the famous Patterson/Gimlin footage--the few seconds of grainy cinema showing a giant, hairy man-like beast walking through the trees.
Comparisons to Blair Witch Project are inevitable. Found-footage is a well-trod genre together with Goldthwait's cinema contains the criterion ingredients: immature people, scary place, mythical creature. Goldthwait said he knows the found-footage format is sort of played out, but his convey on it is different.
"I alone receive got 67 edits inwards this movie," Goldthwait said. "Usually y'all receive got 1,200-1,400 inwards a movie, but I wanted it to experience similar they truly were but turning the photographic telly camera on together with off."
Goldthwait also included something he felt was missing from other movies inwards the genre.
"I mean value sometimes inwards found-footage movies, they don't concentrate also much on the chemical scientific discipline of the [characters]. And that was truly of import to me--that y'all believe these are existent people," he said.
That authenticity was of import to Goldthwait, which mightiness live on an strange thing to consider inwards the context of Bigfoot, but makes perfect feel considering Goldthwait's longtime dear of the legend.
"I took a Bigfoot vacation," Goldthwait said, amongst no line of irony. "I truly pose 1,400 miles on my machine but driving around to all the famous Bigfoot sites inwards California. And when I got to [the community of] Willow Creek, I was sort of thinking of a dissimilar movie. But when I got to WIllow Creek, this but seemed to live on the motion painting to brand because of the people I met there. And I constitute the town real interesting.
"The other thing was, I e'er wanted to effort my manus at a suspense movie. I'm e'er jealous when I lookout adult man a Tarantino motion painting together with you're at the border of your topographic point most of the fourth dimension together with there's nada going on. I'm like, 'How exercise y'all exercise that? How exercise y'all brand suspenseful stuff?' That was my goal."
Reviews of Willow Creek would dot Goldthwait achieved his goal.
Indiewire.com called it "the monster motion painting of the summer," adding that the cinema is "a unique representation of the tension betwixt those who scoff at the Bigfoot legend together with others willing to receive got the mythology equally gospel."
Fearnet.com said Goldthwait's cinema "is a refreshingly matter-of-fact horror/thriller ... a calm, cool, creepy piddling winner."
While Goldthwait has no plans to retire from stand-up, it's anyone's estimate what Willow Creek may hateful for his career. Regardless of what happens, he has a novel champaign of written report to mine for stand-up cloth and, inwards making the film, Goldthwait learned something well-nigh himself.
"[The vacation] was a gift to the 8-year-old me," Goldthwait said. " I've e'er been fascinated past times [Bigfoot] together with what it represents together with how it shows upwards over together with over over again inwards thence many dissimilar cultures. And it took me a piece to realize it, but I similar the outdoors. If y'all acquire looking for Bigfoot together with y'all don't discovery him, the byproduct is y'all went camping."
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