Sasquatch Summer (2024)
Directed by Nathan Zellner, David Zellner
Written by David Zellner
Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denec
Release Date April 19th, 2024
Published April 20th, 2024
Sasquatch Sunset isn't a movie. Let me explain. Technically, there are actors, it was filmed with cameras by a director with the aid of a film crew on a scouted location. All things that add up to making a movie. But that's just a technicality. The reality is that brothers Nathan and David Zellner have tricked a modest audience of indie movie lovers into paying money to watch them screw around in the forest. I can admire the audacity of making a movie as a prank on the audience but figuring out the joke doesn't make the movie any less of a pain to sit through.
There is no plot in Sasquatch Sunset. The film has four actors dressed in Sasquatch suits. These are quite good suits, this was not a cheap prank, it's elaborate. It's also quite a good looking setting that is beautifully captured by cinematographer Mike Gioulakis. And yet, what you are watching, for all the skill on display, is an elaborate troll job. They've got your money, they have you in the theater and now you are sitting there watching actors in Sasquatch costumes grunt at each other in between times when they are scratching their privates and smelling their fingers, picking their noses and eating it, and waving their skinny genitals at each other.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
