WORCESTER The city’s beloved and belittled “Turtle Boy” better think twice next time it wants to tussle with an unsuspecting tortoise from behind because, after a 30-year hibernation, “Snapper” has popped its ugly, hungry head out of its mutated shell.
A true Worcester creation, “Snapper” refers to both an unfinished independent film project about a shell-encrusted killer reptile on a feeding frenzy at Coes Pond (renamed Lost Lake ) and the subject of a new short-film documentary, “Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made,” by Providence-based filmmaker John Campopiano.
“Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made” is being screened Friday through next Thursday in the Coolidge Corner Theatre s Virtual Screening Room in Brookline.