Small town Wisconsin, bigfoot energy, zero budget, maximum chaos.
A young man living with his parents in Wisconsin comes face to face with a terrifying monster while searching for the elusive cryptic known as the Hodag.
Practical Effects
The Hodag costume is gloriously homemade nightmare fuel.
Acting
Non-professionals committing 110% to absolute absurdity.
Direction
Pingel blurs documentary and fiction until neither survives.
Director
Charlie Pingel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Hodag is a real Wisconsin folk legend invented in 1893 by prankster Eugene Shepard, making this a 127-year-old inside joke.
Charlie Pingel's entire filmography explores 'bleak comedy' through non-professional casts in the Midwest, essentially inventing his own genre of regional anxiety.
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