The man turns out to be a sasquatch and fearing they have killed it they take it home by strapping it to the roof of their car like Clark Griswald with a Christmas tree. George Henderson is a good ol’ family man and after taking his family on a camping trip he hits what he believes is a man in the good ol’ family station wagon aka a Ford Country Squire.
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The movie would require very high-end makeup to bring a sasquatch to life and they actually won an Oscar for best makeup. The movie was filmed in the Cascade Range in Washington State and also in areas around Seattle. The movie would be produced and directed by William Dear and would be set in the Pacific Northwest, where most sightings of Big Feet tend to happen. Who wouldn’t want a sasquatch in their own home? Kids will always be fascinated by things like BigFoot and the way he was depicted in this movie made it more approachable and even seemed desirable. I’m not sure what it was, but it came out in 1987 so I was about 10 years old and at the right age to appreciate it. Setting The Stage For Harry And The Hendersons
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And that’s where our story about Harry and the Hendersons: from movie to TV show begins.
Whether the video was real or not (Patterson had just published a book on BigFoot prior to this video so maybe it served as a trailer for it?) BigFoot captured the interest of the public even more so than it had previously.īigFoot would remain in the public conscious and then George Henderson would hit one with his car. Fun fact: The was apparently a lady bigfoot and was nicknamed “Patty”. Standing at over 7 feet tall, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin saw this gigantic creature by a river and then walking upright through the forest in the video you now know. That “movie” was filmed in 1967 in California, 38 miles south of Oregon. It’s been perfectly spoofed from the Simpsons (hold on Bob we can see your wristwatch…) to the movie Elf. The one that looks like a guy in a gorilla costume walking through the forest. Legends have existed for ages and then the Patterson-Gimlin film happened. It was a moderate success and would lead to a TV show that lasted three seasons. Harry and the Hendersons was a live-action comedy movie from 1987 about a giant sasquatch that ends up living with the Henderson family. That’s pretty much the premise to do with everything Harry and the Hendersons and mankind’s love of BigFoot, or the Yeti, or sasquatch, or whatever the hell you like to call it that has kept us enthralled. For as long as there have been stories, there have been legends…
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