Capturing Bigfoot, director Marq Evans’ new documentary now streaming on Prime Video (as of October 20, also in select theaters), isn’t really about a creature in the woods — it’s about the people who have lived in the creature’s long shadow for nearly 60 years.
Capturing Bigfoot (Credits: Prime Video)
Beyond the 1967 Film
The film orbits the infamous Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967, shot by Roger Patterson and Robert “Bob” Gimlin in the remote woods of California — the lumbering figure that believers hold up as sacred evidence and doubters have picked apart for decades. Evans uses it as an entry point rather than a verdict, digging into the people behind the camera and those still carrying its legacy.
The doc premiered earlier this year at the SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it already started making waves inside the Bigfoot community, and builds toward what’s described as essentially the most significant “deleted scene” in Bigfoot cinema history.
A Film About Belief Itself
What elevates it, per IGN’s review, is patient, incisive filmmaking that uncovers not just what the Patterson-Gimlin film captured, but the deeper and more painful psychological mysteries of the human mind behind the belief. It’s a film about the people, not the cryptid — and a genuinely solid, entertaining watch for anyone drawn to the intersection of myth and obsession.
Source: IGN — read the full story there.
