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The Untold is a 2002 adventure horror film independently produced in Canada written and directed by Jonas Quastel. The film is known under several different titles depending on the date and location of its release, with it being known as Sasquatch for English versions such as the Canadian DVD release (with the French Canadian title being known as Inexplicable) and airings on the SyFy Channel along with being known as Sasquatch: la créature de la forêt in France. It was first released in France at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2002. It was released on March 11, 2003 in Canada and the United States.
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DVD cover bearing the title used when it ran on the SyFy Channel, The Sasquatch | |
| Directed by | Jonas Quastel |
| Produced by | Rob Clark Craig Denton |
| Written by | Jonas Questel Chris Lanning |
| Starring | Lance Henriksen Andrea Roth Erica Parker Russel Ferrier Phil Granger |
| Music by | Larry Seymour Tal Bergman |
| Cinematography | Shawn Lawless |
| Edited by | Gabriel Wrye Grace Yuen |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Screenplay
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The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles (Lance Henriksen), billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries, who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter (Erica Parker), who was one of its passengers. The assembled team includes local guide Clayton Tyne (Russel Ferrier), renowned wilderness expert and author Winston Burg (Phil Granger) and the beautiful Marla Lawson (Andrea Roth). Soon, the team begins to suspect that Knowles' main objective is actually to recover the prototype of a DNA testing machine called the Adolf Project, which his company has spent years and millions of dollars developing. After finding the plane and its crew torn to shreds, the group tries to piece together clues about what could be responsible for the carnage. With the help of the Huxley prototype they discover they are facing a menace whose very existence is one of the world's greatest mysteries and the only people left to rescue may be themselves.
- Lance Henriksen as Harlan Knowles
- Andrea Roth as Marla Lawson
- Russel Ferrier as Clayton Tyne
- Philip Granger as Winston Burg
- Jeremy Radick as Plazz
- Mary Mancini as Nikki Adams
- Taras Kostyuk as Sasquatch
- Erica Parker as Tara Knowles
The film was released in theaters and on DVD on March 11, 2003. Lionsgate later released the film on DVD on June 4, 2014.
Critical reception for the film has been mostly negative. Patrick Naugle from DVD Verdict gave the film a negative review calling the film "a paper-thin idea stretched into a feature length film". Scott Weinberg from eFilmCritic.com awarded the film 1 star out of 4 criticizing the film's lack of logic and the absence of the title monster through most of the film.Digital Retribution.com panned the film stating, "Granted, some of the stuff looks cool, but because so much fails, the film just comes off as DESPERATELY trying to be stylized". The site also criticized the director's lack of point and originality.
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