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MOMO The Pumpkin-Headed Missouri Monster | Cryptid Creatures of the Mississippi River | Local Myths and Legends

Written By Ken Hulsey

In 2009, a filmmaker who called himself Count Zee contacted me about a movie he was making. The film focused on MOMO, a local legend in Missouri about a Bigfoot-like creature with a pumpkin head that terrorized the area near the Mississippi River in the early 1970s. At the time, I was happy to provide publicity for his movie project, as I was already involved with several independent projects featuring monsters and local legends. A film about a giant, pumpkin-headed Sasquatch was right up my alley.

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Is It The Great Pumpkin? Or The MOMO Monster?

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: Avery Guerra

It's Halloween night, Sally and Linus are waiting patiently in a pumpkin patch for the 'Great Pumpkin' to come along with his bag of toys and other goodies.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, this thing pops out of the ripe pumpkins.

Sally screams, drops her sack of candy, throws both arms up into the air and runs for the hills.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Linus, scared beyond words (and a little bit let down, because his beloved hero is a Bigfoot with a pumpkin head), just stands there, frozen.

After a few seconds the statue that is Linus just falls to the ground.

The pumpkin headed Bigfoot thing, stops, looks at Linus, then eats up all of Sally's candy and walks away into the crisp fall night.

I don't know why I felt like ruining a beloved children's holiday special just now, but it's what came to me after seeing these brand-new poster images from Count Zee's 'Missouri Monster' inspired movie, "Momo".

Actually, nothing that I have ever written has made me laugh out loud like this before.

Okay, I'm composed.

Actually, the funny thing (really) is that every time someone (like me) mentions that Momo has a 'pumpkin head', Zee always responds by saying that the monster doesn't have a pumpkin for a head, it's just orange and shaped like one.

Well, call me stupid, but doesn't the top of the monster's dome have a stem?

Just saying........

Anyway, 'Momo' was originally to completed this past March, but has run longer than expected. Zee and his crew a still feverishly working on the film, with hopes of having it completed very soon.

I can only hope that all you "Peanuts" fans out there can forgive me.....

MOMO - Bigfoot Crossed With The Headless Horseman

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Johnno Zee / Avery Guerra

If I were to roll up to you on the street and ask you, "What is eight-feet-tall, covered in hair and has a head like a jack-o-lantern?", you would think that I was about to lay some lame riddle on you, right?

That, however, would not be the case at all. I would be asking you if you had ever heard of the Momo, a Bigfoot-like monster that is a local legend in Missouri.

Now, reportedly the Momo, or 'Missouri Monster' as it is known to local residents, is a large hair-covered primate with a pumpkin shaped head that was first sighted back in 1971. Sightings of the monster, which is said to have an appetite for pet cats, continued in the area around the town of Louisiana, Missouri (that is a town named Louisiana, not two states) throughout the early 70s, then trailed off.

Now, as I have said numerous times, 2009 was the year of the Bigfoot movie, and now, 2010 looks like it will be very much the same, with at least two new films already in production.

As you have already guessed, the first of these films to come stomping out of the woods is about the creature I was just talking about, the "Robot Monster" wanna-be "MOMO".

Under the direction of Count Zee, helmer of 2009's "Redneck Carnage" and starring Johnno Zee, Macy Elizabeth, Steven Seda, Darla Reynolds, Troy Dunkle, Don Samuels and Derral Reynolds as the monster, "Momo" is about 1/3 completed.....already.

Zee and company a really gunning for camp with this one, though billed as a horror/monster movie, nobody involved has any illusions that the film will be taken too seriously.....and that's just fine with them

Production is set to wrap in March, that is if the crew can thaw out by then. From there "MOMO" will enter the film festival circuit before, probably, heading to video.

Drunk Rednecks in the woods see the darnedest things don't they?

Here is the trailer:

I used to make art like that in Middle...um High, okay......College.

Zee and company are already way ahead in the merchandising game. Look for the "Tickle-Me-Momo" doll on store shelves just in time for Easter.

Okay, all joking aside, here are some exclusive 'behind-the-scenes' photos from "MOMO":