The fur tells the wild story of Bigfoot’s first kidnapping and Frank Mosley is destined to act

Actor-philmmaker Frank Mosleyknown for his work in Upstream color AND The procedureHe is taking one of the strangest roles of his career. He is ready to act FurA “fantastic romantic horror” based on the bizarre report of the real life of Albert Ostman, the first man in the story recorded to say that he was kidnapped by Bigfoot-and then tangled in a disturbing relationship.

The film, directed by Brad Abrahams (Love and saucers), will be on display at the Frontières market this year at the Fantasia Film Festival in Canada. Written by Joslyn Jensen (Funny bunny) ,, Fur It will be a mixture of surreal horror, intimate drama and cryptid mythology as we have never seen before.

Set in 1924, the film follows Albert Ostman, a lonely logger looking for gold and a new start in the Canadian desert. But instead of hitting rich, Albert finds himself violently kidnapped by a sasquatch and dragged in his cave, where he meets his creature’s partner and their daughter. What takes place is a descent into isolation, primordial rituals and what the filmmakers describe as “forbidden intimacy”.

“While the days pass, Albert is dragged into a world of isolation, strange rituals and forbidden intimacy – a ordeal that ends with the spreading of blood and an act of creation”, reveals the official synopsis.

For Mosley, the bizarre premise was impossible to resist. “Playing a Canadian logger in the 1920s would be quite attractive, but worsening him with an interspecies romanticism was to make an offer that I could not refuse.”

He added: “When Brad and Matt brought me this project, I was immediately taken by their avoidance of the field and their interest in the nuance, in wanting to give this wild story a very sincere and well -founded sensitivity. I could no longer be enthusiastic about interpreting Albert and exploring their visceral themes of desire, other things and belonging within a frogrammation without acting.”

Abrahams, who had previously explored strange phenomena in Love and saucersIt is not foreign to marginal stories. For FurHe is pushing these boundaries even further.

“In its center, the film examines masculinity and sexuality under pressure and the peaceful horror of wanting something really more,” explained Abrahams. “Explore the way isolation distorts perception and how imprisonment, dependence and desire are confused together when nobody remains and no other place to go.”

The writer Jensen shares the same charm for unconventional narratives. “I am particularly interested in positive narratives in sex that subvert the status quo, so I was extremely excited by the idea of ​​a cryptid horror history that turns into domesticity interspecies,” said Jensen.

Jensen also revealed what makes Sasquatch Lore so compelling. “At the beginning, I wrote what type of test I would need, on a personal level, to accept Bigfoot’s existence. My answer was essentially:” A body, “he said.

“Since then, I have understood that the true power of Sasquatch’s stories does not concern the test, but more to do with the desire to believe in something you may never see or experiment firsthand: a better world. A dead bigfoot body is much less important than the possibility that a bigfoot (or more) is experiencing out there at this moment, thinking about your business, pure, natural and free.”

Fur It is produced by Abrahams e Matt Ralston Through their new company, anomalous images, with Mosley also on board as a producer. This marks another ambitious item for both Abraham, who is also known as co-director and guest for the Qaa podcast, and Mosley, whose eclectic credits include Quantum cowboys, FreelandAND The ghost that walks.

With his mix of cryptidic mythology, psychological horror and wild romanticism, Fur It promises to be one of the most interesting genre projects on the horizon. If you like strange true stories, the tradition of Bigfoot or films that push the boundaries, keep it on your radar.

Source: Variety