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You might remember them asking for donations at the airport, passing out spiritual pamphlets or chanting hymns in saffron-colored sheets on the streets. Less is known about the Hare Krishna Movement’s ties to counterfeit memorabilia, the sexual assault of minors, and the murder of two former devotees. Hare Krishna, a monotheistic tradition loosely based on Hindu scriptures, is the subject of Peacock’s true crime docuseries Krishnas: Gurus. Karma. Murder., streaming now.

The three-part docuseries delves into the religious organization’s foundational principles of nonviolence, the dissemination of power after the founder’s death,...

Peacock's upcoming docuseries Krishnas: Gurus. Karma. Murder. delves into the controversies surrounding ousted Hare Krishna leader Guru Kirtanananda Swami. The series exposes dark times under Swami Ham's reign at the New Vrindaban community, revealing criminal activities that led to his removal in 1987. Critics accuse Ham of using fear tactics and silencing those who went against him, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness warns viewers may find the negative portrayals disturbing.

Peacock has unveiled a trailer for its upcoming Krishnas: Gurus. Karma. Murder. The three-part true crime docuseries shines a light on the controversies surrounding an ousted leader of the Hare Krishna movement: Guru Kirtanandana Swami, also known as Keith Ham. The religious organization, formally called the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskon), arrived in the United States in the late 1960s by way of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who served as the group's leader until he died in 1977.

Following Swami Prabhupada,...

Peacock’s set an October 24, 2023 premiere date for the true crime Krishnas: Gurus. Karma. Murder. documentary series. The three-part docuseries is a deep dive into Keith Ham’s involvement with the Hare Krishna religion and features interviews with people who were directly impacted by the “guru.”

Joseph Freed, Allison Berkley, Tara Long, David Holthouse, and Tim Clancy serve as executive producers. Krishnas is produced by Entertainment One Reality Productions, LLC. and Marwar Junction Productions.

Poster for ‘Krishnas: Gurus. Karma. Murder.’ (Photo Credit: Peacock)

Peacock released this description of the documentary series:

“When an Indian Swami gives a lost generation of Americans a new message of love, the Hare Krishna religion is born. But when the Swami dies without finishing his mission, an American Guru tries to seize control of the movement, leading to accusations of racketeering and murder, and investigations by a West Virginia Sheriff’s Detective, the LAPD, and the FBI.

(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Series: Sasquatch Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: While working on a weed farm in Northern California in the early 1990s, David Holthouse witnessed a fellow employee tell an […]

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[Editor’s Note: The following review contains potential spoilers for “Sasquatch.”]

When you see animator Drew Christie’s work side-by-side, you start to see how they come from the same artist. One of the strengths of his contributions to various documentaries — from the sepia-toned inventions of Dr. John Brinkley in Penny Lane’s “Nuts!” to the eerie and ominous Mendocino forests in Hulu’s new series “Sasquatch” — is that each also ends up a key complement to the story being told around it.

His sketch stylings might carry over from project to project, but as with “Sasquatch,” the process begins with ground-up research.

“Each one is very much its own universe. I love doing tons of visual research. Basically, each project is a way to do my own graduate study programming,” Christie said. “Whatever the style or technique or the visual language, I try to cater it to the story in some way. This one, I’d always imagined a...

Hulu’s Sasquatch is not really about bigfoot, although the mythical creature looms large in the three-part series.

The Joshua Rofé-directed project is, in fact, a murder mystery centered around a dangerous, weed-growing community in the Pacific Northwest.

Rofé told Deadline, which broke the news of the series in January, that after he finished Lorena, the Amazon docuseries about Lorena Bobbitt, the woman who famously cut off her husband’s penis, he was looking for a story that was hard to search for, which led him to Sasquatch. Naturally.

“I was feeling so relieved that we were getting so much amazing archival footage [on Lorena], which is a gamechanger when you’re making a doc and you know you’ll be able to represent it visually and capture a time and a place. My weird thought was, what if next time you had a story that you couldn’t even Google.

It’s not evident right away why “Sasquatch” is split into three parts. Given the overall draw for the new Hulu series — the search for answers behind an early-‘90s triple homicide that may or may not have been perpetrated by a legendary cryptozoological figure — there doesn’t seem to be baked-in episodic cutoff points within that premise.

One of the strengths of director Joshua Rofé is how far afield of that central myth it’s willing to travel at various points. What begins as one intrepid journalist’s hunt for answers behind an overheard anecdote that’s lingered for nearly 30 years stretches to fit parts of the greater web surrounding that search. Yet, like so many other true crime-adjacent projects in recent memory, “Sasquatch” shrugs off its most fascinating context for a single thread, one that leaves the audience in as much of an ambling haze as its main surrogate.

Some legends are so powerful they can never die, but they might be able to kill. That is a pervading idea behind Sasquatch, Hulu’s three-part murder-mystery documentary that explores a strange story of the famous cryptid tearing three men limb from limb on a pot farm in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle.

Fittingly premiering on April 20 a.k.a. the weed holiday “420” the series is told through the eyes of investigative journalist David Holthouse. A man who has built his career chasing monstrous humans, such as Neo-Nazis and sexual predators, Holthouse heard of these Bigfoot murders back in 1993 while laying low to avoid some gangs, and passing time working on the farms in the Redwoods. Now, nearly three decades later, he revisits the region to further uncover the truth behind the story.

Directed by Joshua Rofé (Lorena), and produced by Duplass Brothers Productions, Sasquatch is more than a monster hunt.

When I first sat down to watch Joshua Rofé’s three-episode series entitled Sasquatch last month, I thought I knew what I was in for, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. What starts off as a possibly quirky story about a Bigfoot creature that attacked some weed farmers up in Northern California quickly evolved into something far more shocking that I could have ever imagined, and I was wholly riveted throughout the project from start to finish.

That being said, this writer was thrilled to catch up with Rofé to talk about Sasquatch, and he discussed how the project first came about because of a podcast, how integral journalist David Holthouse was to the success of Sasquatch, the danger they all faced—David, in particular—throughout the making of the documentary and more.

Sasquatch premieres tomorrow, April 20th, exclusively on Hulu.

This documentary was such an unbelievable journey.

From its title, “Sasquatch” sounds like the story of Bigfoot — and at the start, it looks that way too. The three-part documentary series begins with journalist David Holthouse recounting the time he visited a cannabis farm and overheard the tale of three workers who had been devoured by the legendary beast.

“Sasquatch” shares with its most prominent on-screen voice, Holthouse, an abiding interest in looking beneath the surface of the seemingly ordinary. “As an investigative journalist, I believe the truth is never told in nine to five hours,” he tells us. Experienced at going undercover — he has lived among those aforementioned cannabis farmers as well as street gangs and neo-Nazis — Holthouse sets out now to uncover the truth of this piece of his memory.

What he finds at first is a deep belief in Bigfoot among the rural Northern California milieu. This sense of a monstrous presence has many roots,...

Is Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, real? “Sasquatch,” the upcoming Hulu docuseries executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass probably isn’t going to answer that question.

However, the series does aim to offer a deep-dive into a grisly triple homicide that was allegedly caused by a Sasquatch decades ago. Hulu recently released a trailer for the project which is directed by Joshua Rofé.

Hulu’s synopsis for “Sasquatch” reads: While visiting a pot farm in Northern California in 1993, investigative journalist David Holthouse heard a story that still haunts him. On a nearby farm three men were torn limb from limb in a savage Bigfoot attack. “Sasquatch” follows David as he revisits the Redwoods 25 years later in search of any evidence that might lead to the truth of what happened that night. As he pulls at the threads of this story he’ll be taken down a path that’s...

Do you believe in Bigfoot? Despite the title, the latest true crime docuseries from the Duplass Brothers are not here to convince the non-believer. Instead, we are left with a more than compelling whodunit murder mystery reliance on the memories of a bunch of stoners who were more than likely stuck in the nightmare of a turf war amongst cannabis farmers.

The bizarre twenty-five-year-old triple homicide story is dependent on the memories of investigative journalist David Holthouse who recounts – via an animated recreation – the time he spent on a pot farm in Spy Rock, Northern California in 1993. During one hazy night, he recalls someone in their company, panicked, running into their accommodation and revealing three men had been torn to shreds, murdered at the hands of Bigfoot. As so many years have passed his memory has become fogged and embarks on a quest to find out if, what he remembers...

"Now I'm going to tell you the craziest story I've ever heard." Hulu has revealed an official trailer for a new documentary mini-series titled Sasquatch, from producers Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, billed as the executive producers of "Wild Wild Country", which was one of the best doc series I've ever seen. This doc just premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival this week, and it drops on Hulu on 4/20. Because in addition to Bigfoot, there's a big-time marijuana connection as well. Sasquatch is a true crime doc series following investigative journalist David Holthouse as he attempts to solve a bizarre 25-year-old triple homicide that was said to be the work of a mythical creature. But it turns out this is all around a lucrative area in Northern California where they grow a lot of high quality weed, too. This just looks creepy and funny and wild and the quote about...

Hulu has released the trailer for Sasquatch, a three-part documentary series that explores a series of murder investigations in Northern California, which have been linked to both the area’s cannabis farming and its local Bigfoot legends. It premieres April 20th on the streaming platform.

The series was inspired by the work of investigative journalist David Holthouse, who is heavily featured in Sasquatch as both an interview subject and interviewer. In 1993, Holthouse visited the infamous “Emerald Triangle” in Northern California — home to some of the most renowned cannabis growers in...

Hippies listening to the Grateful Dead, guns, pot, and Big Foot? These are all at the center of Sasquatch.

The three-part miniseries from the Duplas Brothers and executive producer Joshua Rofé, follows investigative reporter David Holthouse as he travels into the Redwoods of Northern California to investigate a the brutal murder of three men. He first heard the story during a visit to the area 25 years prior but what caught Holthouse's attention was the fact that locals believe the murders were a result of a Bigfoot attack.

So is Sasquatch really wondering around the Redwoods or were the killings the result of pot grower infighting? It's not clear that Holthouse gets to the bottom of the mystery but the search certainly looks like it'll be entertaining.

Hulu on Wednesday unveiled premiere dates for its spring slate of original documentaries, including a film on the “cautionary tale” of WeWork and its charismatic co-founder Adam Neumann.

Weighing in with an 11-word title, WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn debuts on the streaming platform April 2. Jed Rothstein directed the documentary exploring the office space-sharing startup that attracted massive investment and then nearly collapsed in a twisted pile of Herman Miller chairs. Neumann, described as a “hippie-messianic leader,” was bought out to the tune of a billion dollars.

As Deadline reported last month, Apple TV+ has separately ordered WeCrashed, a limited series based on the WeWork debacle, to star Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto.

Hulu says its documentary benefits from interviews with “journalists, experts and high-ranking former employees” to tell “one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years.” Campfire, Forbes and...

Hulu has three documentaries — “WeWork,” “Kid 90” and “Sasquatch” — slated to release on the streaming service this spring.

“Kid 90,” an intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, will be available to stream on March 12. Directed by Soleil Moon Frye, the film uses hundreds of hours of footage captured by the child actress after she became known to the world as Punky Brewster. “Kid 90” is described as a “deeply personal coming-of-age story” that explores how “sometimes we need to look back to find our way forward.” It includes interviews with fellow child actors David Arquette, Stephen Dorff, Balthazar Getty, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, Tori Leonard and Heather McComb. STX and Appian Way executive produced.

“WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” will premiere on April 2. Incorporating interviews with journalists, experts, high-ranking former employees and prior WeWork members, the feature documentary explores the rise and...

Exclusive: Hulu is continuing to ramp up its original documentary push with a three-part series about Bigfoot from the Duplass Brothers and Lorena director Joshua Rofé.

The streamer has ordered Sasquatch, which investigates rumors of a bizarre twenty-five-year old triple homicide said to be the work of a mythical creature.

The series will launch this spring.

Rofé, who directed Amazon’s doc series on the Lorena Bobbitt case, will direct the series and will exec produce alongside Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, and Mel Eslyn of Duplass Brothers Productions, Steven Berger of Number 19, David Holthouse and Zach Cregger. M. Elizabeth Hughes produces.

It is the latest documentary series from Mark and Jay Duplass, who are behind Netflix’s Wild Wild Country and Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist. Their four-part series The Lady and the Dale, which tells the story of Elizabeth Carmichael and the Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation,...

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