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Stars: Sean Sisson, Krystal Millie Valdes, Ernesto Reyes, Isabelle Muthiah, Jesse Tayeh | Written by Jon Garcia, Zach Carter | Directed by Jon Garcia

Summoning the Spirit opens on an odd note as a couple of would-be pyromaniacs get attacked and beaten unconscious not by pissed-off park rangers but by some oddly dressed cultists. When they come to it’s just in time to be finished off, not by the cultists, but by Bigfoot.

It’s In these same woods that Carla and Dean buy a house to get away from the city and start a family. Unfortunately, Carla miscarries putting both of them in an emotionally bad place.

And, as is often the case with emotionally despondent people, they attract the attention of The Mountain People a local cult that claims to have a bond with a large hairy creature that lives in the woods. Carla hits it off with Celeste...

Dark Star Pictures is set to give the supernatural Sasquatch horror film Summoning the Spirit a digital and DVD release on August 8th, and with that date just one month away we’ve gotten our hands on a trailer for the movie! You can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Jon Garcia, who also wrote the screenplay with Zach Carter, Summoning the Spirit follows Carla and Dean as they decide to escape the hustle of the big city, purchasing a home in the remote forest. They have big plans for their new quiet life, only to find something much more sinister. The couple quickly realize that they are on the land of a cult, and the leader claims a telepathic connection to a legendary flesh-eating beast deep in the woods surrounding them. Carla and Dean are forced to uncover the terrifying truth of the cult’s prophecy.

Production recently wrapped on a Portland-based Sasquatch horror movie called Summoning the Spirit, which is coming our way from Dark Star Pictures, Lake Productions, and Silk Road Entertainment. The film was written and directed by Jon Garcia, who previously worked with Dark Star on the prison drama Luz and the romance Love in a Dangerous Time. Dark Star’s Michael Repsch told The Hollywood Reporter, “It is such a joy to be working again with Jon Garcia on his foray into genre filmmaking, after reading the script we knew this was a project we could really get on board with. This is more than your typical creature feature — it explores the depths of the human psyche, thirst for power and desire to control… all alongside some incredible practical effects and a creature audiences will not soon forget.“

The official synopsis says that Summoning the Spirit follows a couple who move...

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Bigfoot is coming to the AFM. LA distributor Dark Star Pictures and Lake Productions have now wrapped principal photography on Summoning the Spirit, the newly-announced Portland-based “Sasquatch Horror,” which is set to make is debut in the American Film Market with Silk Road Entertainment.

Written and directed by Jon Garcia, who previously teamed with Dark Star on LGBTQ prison drama Luz and Covid-shot romance Love in a Dangerous Time, Summoning the Spirit follows a couple (played by Krystal Millie Valdes and Ernesto Reyes) who move to a home in the remote forest to escape the bustle of the city. Although they have big plans for their new quiet life, they find something much more sinister and soon realize that they are on land occupied by a cult, and the leader claims a telepathic connection to a legendary flesh-eating beast deep in the woods surrounding them.

"I came for you... You know that." Dark Star Pictures has revealed the official trailer for an intimate, indie drama titled Luz, one of the latest films from filmmaker Jon Garcia. Ruben Gonzales is a young Latino man who's fallen into the world of the mafiosos. When an accident leads him into incarceration, his relationship with the cartel and with his family is strained. While in prison, he falls in the complex hierarchical system until his cellmate and eventual lover Carlos, comes to his side and helps him find emotional and financial stability. When the men are released from prison 2 years apart, they again meet on the outside and while dealing with the circumstances that had them incarcerated in the first place, they ponder whether what they once had was real or just 2 people hoping to seek light in a dark place. Starring Ernesto Reyes as Ruben, and Jesse Tayeh as Carlos.