It’s important to remember that the cryptid at the center of Kryptic is NOT Bigfoot. It may look like bigfoot, it may live in the same surroundings as Bigfoot, and it may even have some of the same questionably interdimensional qualities as Bigfoot but it is definitely not Bigfoot. And to be fair. Bigfoot ain’t this strange, this horny(!), or this, uh, gooey…
Pulling from the craziest corners of the Bigfoot legend to create their own cryptid, director Kourtney Roy and writer Paul Bromley have crafted something entirely original that is pure high strangeness. When awkward hiker Kay (Chloe Pirrie) goes for a wander on “Krypto Peak” she encounters something that upends her entire reality. In a flash, her memory is completely wiped, her brains are scrambled, and something resembling semen (Gross, but get used to it cause there’s more to come!) begins oozing from her ear.
“Pure High Strangeness”
Kay slowly begins to piece her life together, finding her house from the address listed on her driver’s license, rummaging through her belongings for clues about who this stranger named Kay actually is. But her world gets flipped-turned upside down when she begins looking for answers about what happened to her in the forest. While investigating this mysterious creature, she finds news story after news story about a missing cryptozoologist named Barbara Valentine that looks exactly like Kay.
Her hunt for answers sends her down a rabbit hole, ping-ponging from one kooky character to another across the small mountain towns of rural British Columbia. She talks with eccentric motel owners, local drunks, and trailer park party animals that have had their own brushes with the ultra-weird. All the while Kay (or is it Barbara??) discovers more about who she is and what happened to her through slimy, psychedelic visions of unfiltered midnight madness. There is a deeper meaning to it all. It isn’t all just gross for the sake of gross, but gattdamn is it gross!
“Kryptic is the bizarro, indescribable creature you’ve been hunting for…”
You can’t always be in the mood for a semen-covered, super weird, mind-melter but it’s par for the course with a kooky cryptid tale. If you want something safe there’s always Harry and The Hendersons but if you want something you’ve never seen before, something that might make you vomit but something that you’ll never forget, Kryptic is the bizarro, indescribable creature you’ve been hunting for.
Kourtney Roy’s Kryptic celebrated its Quebec Premiere at the 2024 Fantasia Film Festival. Click HERE to follow our continued coverage of the festival and let us know if you’ve ever seen something you can’t explain over in the Nightmare on Film Street Discord.
