Follows investigative journalist David Holthouse as he attempts to solve a bizarre twenty-five year old triple homicide that was said to be the work of a mythical creature.
Sasquatch feels like a bold new statement for the genre, an offbeat blend of investigative reporting and documentary filmmaking with a deep dive into the supernatural and the unexplainable.
Suffice to say, even with the spookiness of the California wilderness at their disposal, the team behind Sasquatch never cobble together a tale worthy of their title.
Director and showrunner Joshua Rofé tries to keep it real and intersperses the weird with the plausible... Just like the evasive Sasquatch, there is a lot more than meets the eye with this documentary.
Intrepid both in its pursuit of truth and its readiness to interrogate why that truth is interesting to us, Sasquatch is an impressive, propulsive piece of work.
Sasquatch ends on a note of eerie ambiguity, before putting a button on the tale that doesn't exactly recontextualize it, but does clear up a few lingering questions.
An investigation that dives headfirst into conspiracy and rumour, fuelled by the nervous anticipation of actually getting to see a monster in the flesh.
