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Exclusive trailer: Bigfoot thriller “SQUATCH” steps out

The legendary monster re-emerges from the woods next month.

Freestyle Digital Media has picked up VOD rights to the horror/adventure film SQUATCH, which it will release on North American digital HD Internet, cable, VOD and satellite platforms March 10. Directed by Tom Chaney (FROSTBITER: WRATH OF THE WENDIGO) and written by Chaney and Bill Conger, it stars Jack Chaney, Paige Weishuhn and Cassandra Schomer, with Jacob Southwick, a.k.a. pro wrestler Madman Fulton, as the Squatch (creature design by David Henson Greathouse). The synopsis: “Nick Peters [Jack Chaney] has spent his entire life without his estranged father. Living in a small working-class town with his mother, he unexpectedly inherits his father’s estate including a remote cabin in the deep northern woods. Wanting nothing to do with it, he’s ready to walk away until Cassie [Weishuhn], the coworker he’s pined for, offers to go with him. What begins as a weekend of closure quickly descends into a fight for survival. As they cross into a world untouched by man, they come face-to-face with a myth that has finally stopped hiding. America’s monster comes to life in SQUATCH.”

“Bigfoot is back in the cultural bloodstream, and we knew it was time to drag SQUATCH into the horror universe,” Chaney says. “We built a fearless team and made a savage film that doesn’t blink.”

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