Your Feet's Too Big: A Pictorial Tribute to Sasquatch

Whether they came from the swamps of Florida, the pastoral forests of New England, or the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, regional horror filmmakers all had one thing in common: they liked making movies about Bigfoot. Next to the slasher subgenre, the Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch film was one of the most trodden paths to regional horror immortality. In honor of the recent publication of Dave Coleman's The Bigfoot Filmography, we present a visual tribute to cryptid cinema.

Mystery Film: Southern Shockers (1985)

Reader and Classic Horror Film Board member todmichel recently alerted us to a post over at the Cinehound Forum that includes a VHS box cover and screen caps from a previously unheard of omnibus flick called Southern Shockers that was filmed in West Point, Miss., in 1985.

The box in the Cinehound post appears to be from either Spain or Latin America, and presents the film as El Espiritu del Zombie (The Spirit of the Zombie), although the credits are all in English.

For you youngsters in the audience, VHS technology and the color red had an often stormy relationship...

Here's the info:

Director: David Coleman
Producer: David Hopper
Special Effects: Chris Witherspoon
Catering: Marcia Gibson
Cast: Mike Gordon, Robert Harrell, Tom Hatcher, Eric Shusterman (as Preacher Hopewell)


Oddly enough, I spent every summer during the late 1980s in West Point, Miss., and I still have family there. But I never heard of this movie, which appears to be a very cheap, shot-on-video effort. Anyone know anything about this one? If you have information, post it here in the comments section or send me an e-mail!