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Small Town Monsters has announced the September
20th DVD and VOD release of Seth Breedlove's
docudrama MOMO: The Missouri Monster. The
latest title to crawl forth from the production powerhouse behind
last year's best-selling documentary On the Trail of Bigfoot, MOMO:
The Missouri Monster seeks to tell the true, and
truly strange story of the Missouri Monster. The hair-covered,
three-toed monstrosity was said to have prowled the forests of Star
Hill, near Louisiana, Missouri during the summer of 1972 where it was
spotted by terrified citizens for weeks. The film will be available
nationwide on DVD, as well as Vimeo OnDemand, Amazon Instant Video, and VIDI
Space.
The case
gained national media attention during the '70s and remains one of
the largest tourist draws for the tiny town on the banks of the
Mississippi River. The latest release from Small Town Monsters and
director Seth Breedlove, MOMO: The Missouri Monster is
told in both narrative and documentary form. The narrative sections
appear as a lost b-movie from the 1970s, inspired by Breedlove's
lifelong fascination with grindhouse movies and creature features.
The horror film depicts the widely accepted details of the MOMO
legend and is eventually contradicted and corrected by the actual
survivors who lived through the events. Breedlove
describes MOMO: The Missouri Monster as "Rashomon
meets Creature from Black Lake or The
Legend of Boggy Creek".
The film stars
Adam Duggan and Sara Heddleston, as well as Animal Planet's Cliff
Barackman and James "Bobo" Fay with special appearances by
Janet Jay and Elizabeth Saint (Ghosts of Shepherdstown).
Ahead of the
national video release, a midnight premiere is scheduled at the
Kentucky Theater in Lexington, Kentucky on Friday,
September 6th with cast and crew in attendance. The
premiere will coincide with Cryptid-Con, a cryptozoology and
paranormal convention celebrating its third year and featuring a
number of renowned authors, television personalities, and
speakers. On Friday, September 13th,
the Canton Palace Theatre in Canton, OH will play host to the Ohio
Premiere of MOMO with cast and crew in attendance. Finally,
on September 20th, as MOMO
hits audiences nationwide, the Missouri Monster will storm the State
Theater in Point Pleasant, WV as part of the kickoff for the annual
Mothman Festival.
The year was
1972 and the place was a tiny, quaint, riverfront town called
Louisiana, Missouri. On a warm summer evening, two local kids saw a
creature in their own backyard holding a dead dog. Before you could
say the word "Bigfoot", local media and police officials
had pounced on the story. Overnight Louisiana became "monster
central" with creature seekers and monster hunters combing the
woods to look for "the thing" that the newspapers had
dubbed "MOMO". One particular family was at the center of
this whirlwind of activity and as the Missouri Monster sightings
began to increase, so did the negative impact on the Harrisons.
In 1975, a
film crew set out to tell an over-the-top, filmic version of the MOMO
sightings. Due to one reason or another, this should-have-been-cult-classic
was never released. Until now.
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MOMO: THE
MISSOURI MONSTER - Trailer
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