Upcoming Doc Unearths 1970s Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen - ‘Sasqua: The Lost Bigfoot Film of Massachusetts’
If you have no idea what the film Sasqua is, then you wouldn’t be alone. The film came out in the early 1970s and was lost through ought the majority of the following decades.
It’s a story that director 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.
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.”
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