After escaping, he donned animal pelts and lived off the land for 14 years. Farmers would find their tools missing one day, only to find them returned and sharpened the next day. The Wild Man of the Navidad is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks. The two most notable written accounts of the Wildman, Taylor’s and J. Frank Dobie’s Tales of Old Time Texas, both leave room for the possibility.Dobie goes so far as to say that the Wildwoman was spotted and was said to carry a club, “about 5 feet long and polished to a wonder.” Now on DVD, iTunes & Shudder.com! The Wild Man of the Navidad. The Wild Man of the Navidad was sold into slavery in Victoria and lived in … Intoduction by Kim Henkel. The Wild Man of the Navidad premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City and was later released by IFC Films in 2009. That's the way the legend of the Wild Man of the Navidad began - or Wild Woman, depending on which version of the stories people tend to believe. Purportedly based on a true story, The Wild Man of the Navidad was co-produced by Kim Henkel, who was screenwriter and associate producer on an earlier independent horror film from the Lone Star State, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.~Mark Deming. 2008, Mystery and thriller/Drama, 1h 26m. Co-producer, Henkel. Features. Eventually, even pigs came up missing, and legend has it that the mysterious character would even go into houses in the middle of the night and steal half of what was found in the cupboards. 0 Reviews 100+ Ratings You might also like. 2 talking about this. After reaching Texas , he and a companion had escaped, but the companion had died from exposure after a few years. Turned out, the man was a prince who'd been sold into slavery as a child. Some reports say that the original wild man of the navidad was indeed a man, an escaped slave in the 1800's who was a prince of his tribe back in Africa. Removal Animal Instincts II Elsewhere Dead Within The Odds. It was first widely reported in 1837 throughout the early settlements along the bottoms, circa the modern-day town of Sublime, Texas, in Lavaca County. The Wild Man of the Navidad Production: A Greeks Prods. "A pretty potent dose of movie moonshine!" presentation of a Meeks/Graves/Henkel production. Directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks pretty much reached their “Mission Accomplished” stage within the first five minutes of “Wild Man of the Navidad.” That’s because their whole intention in making the film was to capture the essence of the grind house/drive-in theater horror films from the 1960s and early ‘70s; something “Wild Man…” achieves… This interview was conducted at Texas Frightmare Weekend on May 3rd, 2009 in Dallas, TX. 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