Director: John Orrichio
Year: 2017
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Bigfoot/Sasquatch
Plot:
After her grandfather dies, a young woman learns she has inherited the land and tries to decide what to do with it with her friends, eventually running across a killer Bigfoot on her land and manages to capture it, bringing the attention of a crazed scientist who intents to experiment with cross-species breeding with the creature.
Review:
This one was pretty decent if somewhat underwhelming. The film’s at its best when dealing with the more extreme and over-the-top content on display. There’s plenty to like here involving the treatment of the captive and served-up women to the creature in a basement holding-cell, which contains not only the sleazy nature of what they’re trying to do but also the terrifying aspect of being alone in the dark basement with a chained-up Bigfoot looking over your body. It’s repeated several times to great effect here, and along with the continuous exploits involving the need for experimenting to prove his theories carries with it a dirty and depraved feeling within here.
As well, there’s also a lot to like with the film’s fine exploitation elements with a lot to like regarding the more traditional extreme content. The opening scene of the creature attacking the family and killing them gets this off to a nice start, much like the attack on the lesbian film-shoot which adds in full-frontal nudity to the mix alongside the fun gore involved here. With the scenes involving the female victims tied up and dismembered in the basement, there’s a lot of fun here with the nudity and gore-gags coming together quite nicely to generate some great times especially once he takes an interest in the one victim to keep her alive. The frantic escape is great with the practical effects shining nicely as well as the overt bestiality featured there to give this one some positive points.
This one does have a few noticeable flaws. Among the biggest issues here is a completely glossed-over series of questions that don’t need to be here which causes this to be longer than it needs to be. A whole conversation lasting several minutes here about realizing that the creature doesn’t like tattoos or piercings takes way too long to get to the point with two separate scenes to get that across when a single conversation stating the obvious could’ve been done instead. Likewise, the need to call in the second family member to keep the story going when the main one is killed off-screen as a total cheat makes no sense and doesn’t make any sense at all, especially once they dive right in and join the team holding the creature hostage and killing other women in the basement.
The other problem here is the numerous instances of low-budget filmmaking that are obvious and hard to get away-from. The main Bigfoot costume is absolutely ludicrous and laughable, looking like a ratty party costume with no detail and cheap, stringy fur that looks nearly as bad as the face which doesn’t even fit the actor making for several scenes where his real skin is visible beneath. Even worse is that when it’s on it looks hilariously awful and non-threatening which is quite derpy rather than scary. Flimsy and goofy-looking props don’t add much to the realism here, and the scattered story without much focus or attention to anything doesn’t do this one any favors, being what holds this one down the most.
Overview: **/5
While it may be somewhat of a mess in parts and quite obvious about its limitations, that there’s enough to enjoy here is enough to hold this one up to be a watchable if not extraordinary entry in the killer Bigfoot genre. Give this a watch if you’re a fanatic about the genre or are appreciative of the hardcore content, while those who don’t enjoy either of those elements should heed caution here.
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