Capturing Bigfoot is playing in select theaters and is available to stream on Prime Video starting October 20.

Keep your hairy suits on; the mythical creature is not alive alive in the same way you and I are. However, he remains alive in the public imagination. One of the primary reasons for this, as seen in director Marq Evans’ fascinating documentary Capturing Bigfoot, has to do with a short film made way back in 1967 by a group of Washingtonians that supposedly captured footage of the creature walking with a memorably lumbering gait in the remote woods of California. The infamous Patterson-Gimlin film, named for two of its creators, Roger Patterson (who died in 1972) and Robert “Bob” Gimlin, has continued to endure over the decades, picked apart by doubters just as it is still held up as almost a sacred document by believers.

It’s a subject that’s ripe for deeper analysis, and Capturing Bigfoot – which premiered back at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it already began to make waves in the Bigfoot community – not only delivers on that front, but also in its look at the people who made the 1967 film. It’s a solidly entertaining watch, bringing to light the reality of what's out there lurking in the woods, but it also offers something more in how it gets at the deeper, more painful, and yet still beautiful psychological mysteries living inside the human mind.

While Evans gives plenty of attention to the Bigfoot of it all and the hold it has over so many, critically, he’s not making a film that’s solely about the creature.

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