CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Greeks Productions and the producer of the original ‘70s horror classic “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” will present a special screening of their vintage horror flick “The Wild Man of the Navidad” Friday, Oct. 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

A reception and question and answer session will follow the screening, which is part of the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s 60th Anniversary Speaker Series. Dr. Bill Huie, professor of communication and TV-film, will emcee, and Austin rockabilly band, Charlie Hurtin and the Hecklers, which provided the film’s music tracks, will perform. The event is free and open to the public.

Greeks Productions is Duane Graves and Justin Meeks, who wrote, directed, edited and co-produced the film. Both are 1999 Communications –TV/Film graduates from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and are former students of Kim Henkel, the film’s co-producer who also wrote and produced the original “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.”

In addition to “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” Henkel has written or produced several films including 2006’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.”

An unsettling brew of dark comedy, suspense and terror, the 85-minute film (rated R) is adapted from the real-life journals kept in the early 1970s by Texan Dale S. Rogers. The journals tell of a mysterious, but violent creature lurking in the woods that terrorizes residents for years near the small Texas town of Sublime.

“It’s a film that adds new chapters to an old Texas legend passed down for generations,” said Graves, who was also the movie’s cinematographer. “Up until now, the general belief was that the Wild Man was a runaway slave who was eventually captured. But Dale told us a completely different story – a harrowing story.”

Graves directed the critically-acclaimed 2001 documentary “Up Syndrome,” an intimate portrait of his childhood friend who was born with Down syndrome. The film won several awards at festivals across the country including Slamdance and is currently distributed by Victory Multimedia.

Meeks, who plays Dale S. Rogers in the film, worked with Graves on a trilogy of short horror films, which were co-produced by Henkel and were released internationally on DVD by Shock-O-Rama Cinema. Meeks also wrote, co-directed and starred in their second collaboration, “Rio Peligroso: A Day in the Life of a Legendary Coyote,” which has been picked up for a two-year distribution contract with View Askew Pictures.

Meeks says he’d like to see “The Wildman of the Navidad” picked up by a distribution company in the near future.

“Since starting our production company in the summer of 2002, we have dedicated ourselves to creating quality cinema,” Meeks said. “Our aim for ‘Wildman of the Navidad’ is to have a national or international theatrical release. However, we are marketing the film through several avenues, including the Sundance, Cannes and Tribeca film festivals.”

For more information, visit the Web site at www.wildmanofthenavidad.com or call 361.825.3724.