Uncork’d Entertainment has released a trailer for Reed’s Point, an upcoming indie horror movie that centers on two survivors of an RV crash who find themselves dealing with the legend of the Jersey Devil. For a cryptid with a lot of pop culture exposure – it’s got a Bruce Springsteen song and an NHL team named for it – the creature has surprisingly little going on in the horror space, so director Dale Fabrigar takes on the mythology in a horror movie blended with a psychological thriller. This one takes place on the one-year anniversary of their crash, and sees the pair lost in the woods.
Admittedly, most people have heard of the “Jersey Devil,” especially given that New Jersey named their NHL team after the creature, but what many people aren’t aware of is that, rather than being some supernatural specter, the creature’s origins are somewhat more terrestrial in nature.
As the legend goes, Jane Leeds became pregnant with her 13th child, cursing the unborn baby as being “the Devil,” with the child’s birth in 1735 seeing it transform from a normal, human child into a beast with hooves, wings, and a goat’s head. The beast flew out the chimney and into the night, supposedly haunting the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey ever since.
The creature has been sighted countless times over the centuries, with a string of hundreds of reported encounters occurring across the state of New Jersey in January of 1909. While the Jersey Devil is to blame for sightings of seemingly tangible creatures in the woods, there is little evidence to support the beast ever existing.
