Drawing Flies
Director: Matthew Gissing, Malcolm Ingram
Genre: Comedy, Indie, Black comedy, Comedy-drama, Ensemble Film
Year: 1996
Country: Canada
Language: English Language
Starring: Carmen Lee, Jason Mewes, Rene Humphrey, Carmen Llywelyn, Jason Lee, Kevin Smith, Joey Lauren Adams, Renée Humphrey, Ethan Suplee
For the Soundgarden song of the same name see Drawing Flies (song).
Drawing Flies is a 1996 comedy film from Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions. It was made by two Canadian filmmakers, Malcolm Ingram and Matt Gissing, with financial backing from Smith and Scott Mosier.
After they get cut off welfare, Donner (Jason Lee) leads four of his jobless, penniless roommates on a journey to find a cabin in the woods that belongs to his uncle. They get lost and stranded in the woods, without food or water or their bearings when their van breaks down. He eventually reveals to his roommates that the search for the cabin is really a search for Sasquatch. They, of course, think he's crazy. But to make matters worse, they uncover all kinds of bizarre and dangerous activity as they wander through the woods in search of not only Bigfoot himself, but any hope of a future...
While making Mallrats, Kevin Smith met Canadian Film Threat journalist Malcolm Ingram and his friend Matt Gissing; the three decided to make Drawing Flies, the title of which is based on a Soundgarden song from the album Badmotorfinger. Along with much of the cast of Mallrats, Smith headed up to the Canadian wilderness and made
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