Minerva Monster

Minerva Monster (2015)

In the summer of 1978 a creature stirred

In August of 1978 a small town in eastern Ohio was thrust into the spotlight when a local family sighted a Bigfoot in the woods behind their home. Over subsequent evenings they were repeatedly visited by the creature culminating in a late-night encounter that ended in local police being called in.

Date of release
2015-05-16
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
54m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Seth Breedlove
Collection
Small Town Monsters Collection

Interesting facts

Minerva Monster is a 2015 American documentary film written and directed by Seth Breedlove, about the purported sightings of an alleged Bigfoot-like creature around the town of Minerva, in Paris Township, Stark County, Ohio, in 1978. The first in a series of cryptid-related documentaries produced by Breedlove's production company Small Town Monsters, the film features interviews with law enforcement, media officials, and supposed witnesses of the titular creature.

Production

According to director Breedlove, production on Minerva Monster began in September 2014. The film was shot and edited over the course of eight months.

Minerva Monster was filmed using a $3,000 Sony camcorder, on a budget of around US$500. A crowdfunding campaign for the film on Kickstarter raised an additional $6,515. In a 2015 interview, Breedlove stated that, "There was no real budget to speak of. We put money into things like equipment and gas and chartered a plane to fly us over Minerva for aerial shots."

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