In Swamp Devil, film veteran Bruce Dern plays a small town sheriff wrongly accused of a murder actually committed by an inhuman fiend. With the help of his estranged daughter, he sets out to clear his name by proving the existence of the tree-like creature really behind the murder. The tree creature is described as having branch-like arms and “mud blood” that oozes from its wounds.
Director David Winning is no stranger to flicks about plant-like monsters the secrete ooze having also helmed the recent Sci-Fi Channel original movie Something Beneath, in which Kevin “Hercules” Sorbo portrayed a priest battling an plant-like monster that infected victims with a mind-altering slime that causes them to kill themselves. Winning wrapped production for Canada’s Muse Entertainment on Swamp Devil just a few weeks back (in Canada, no surprise); RHI Entertainment will be handling the international entertainment. Don’t be surprised to see this one premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel sometime next year.
Winning also recently finished work on another future Sci-Fi Channel original entitled Black Swarm featuring Robert England as a beekeeper contending with military-bred super wasps gone amok. How many movies has Sci-Fi made about killer wasps so far? I think this is like the third or fourth I can think of.