Director: Mark Polonia
Year: 2016
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Bigfoot/Sasquatch; Zombie
Plot:
While working on a secret experiment, a research team look to train forensic workers on different conditions inadvertently stumble upon a zombie outbreak brought about by their experiments and forced to turn to Bigfoot himself in order to escape the compound alive.
Review:
Overall, this one proved to be quite an enjoyable effort. One of the better elements here is the fact that there's quite a lengthy setup here to work both storylines together. The rationale for bringing the zombies onboard, having workers at a forensics research team training candidates in various outcomes for their eventual profession, serves as an intriguing and unique setup as they're partly responsible for the zombie outbreak. Getting this setup to occur within the hunting grounds for Bigfoot which manages to drag it into the proceedings is quite fun due to them mixing these stories together.
On top of that, the film does have some solid and enjoyable action when it erupts. The first woodlands based encounter offers up some far more atmospheric ambushes than expected and the early scenes of the zombie horde amassing and gathering their forces have some rather fun encounters. There's even a lot of fun to be had with the traditional barricading scenes as the group is picked off and forced into a small building to hold them off, and the scenes of the hunter out gleefully shooting zombies offer up some cheesy moments. Their escape attempt, bringing Bigfoot along to battle the creatures across the compound offers up plenty of wild fun in the various encounters throughout the facility, giving this a rousing overall finish complete with all the cheesy low-budget gore that's usually featured in the genre. Overall, this one featured some enjoyable elements.
This one did have some pretty big flaws. The most noticeable issue here is the completely irrational meaning as for why the two storylines are converged in the first place. The wildness promised in the premise is mostly wasted here as the two rarely get to interact at all, as there are only two or three scenes featuring the zombies attacking Bigfoot with the focus of the film detailing the creation of the virus and what the purpose of them being out in the middle of the wilderness is all about. This focus can make the film seem somewhat bland in places when it's not dealing with the two interacting in some manner.
The other big factor is the obvious low-budget present here. Way too much happens here that gives away the fact that this one is somewhat overwhelmed by what's going on here, from the lack of bodies that appear during the apocalypse that's explained away as being due to the remaining bodies being used at the site to the utterly shaggy-looking Bigfoot costume that appears here which almost looks like it's falling off the actor at one point to the fact that there's a decidedly human-size Bigfoot around in the first place who's not even taller than the actresses in the film here. It's all quite obvious that this is low-budget and really let down by the absolute lack of location changes from the outside of the facility and two or three rooms there. Overall, these here are the film's biggest problems that hold this one down.
Overview: **1/2/5
While there are a few problems here with the low-budget appearance that runs rampant and a little bit of a let-down from the wildness that could've occurred, there's enough to like here that makes it a decent enough effort. Give this a chance if you're willing to look at the low-budget indie scene or have an affection for this type of film, while those taken aback by the overall title and premise should avoid this one altogether.
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