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Cryptids
April 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Cryptids, a horror/comedy anthology that has garnered awards on the festival circuit and stars famed drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs, will screen as the latest offering in the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center on Thursday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m.
Accolades for Cryptids include Best Feature and Best Horror Feature at GenreBlast 2023, and the Jury Award at the 2024 Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival.
Produced and with segments directed by Zane Hershberger of Wexford and Justin Seaman of Claysville, Washington County, the filmmakers call Cryptids “a love letter to creature features” that takes place during a paranormal radio call-in show hosted by Major Harlan Dean, played by Briggs.
As the phone lines open and callers discuss increasingly bizarre sightings of cryptids (creatures such as Bigfoot whose existence is rumored but has never been proven), Dean begins to question if real dangers lurk outside the station.
Free Showcase events, a staple at The Lindsay, have developed to accelerate filmmakers’ exposure and encourage exchanges between local artists and the public. The anthology includes eight chapters by seven artists, and the 85-minute screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers.
Several segments were shot in Butler and Portersville, Butler County; Washington and Claysville, Washington County; and at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, W.Va.
Hershberger, an Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate, and Seaman, a Robert Morris University alumnus, met while working on Seaman’s first feature film, The Barn, and have collaborated for the past 11 years under their companies Silver Springs Films and Nevermore Productions Films.
“I love telling stories; I always have since I was a kid,” says Hershberger. “After writing a multitude of stories, I wanted to see them visually come alive through the process of filmmaking.”
This event is free to the public but reservations are recommended as seats already are going fast. Rumor has it Bigfoot will need at least two seats so everyone behind him can see the screen.
