Director: Shawn C. Phillips
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Bigfoot/Sasquatch
Plot:
Working on a new movie, a film crew working on a low-budget monster movie in the woods surrounding Amityville finds the shoot compromised by a series of problems ranging from protestors to nature-watchers to an out-of-control Bigfoot that escaped from a team of scientists in the area.
Review:
This was a decent-at-best genre effort that does have some likable factors. One of the positives with this one comes from the cheesy setup that provides an endless opportunity to unleash plenty of action here. The main setup of the team of scientists in their isolated facility studying the creature and accidentally letting it loose when it assaults the team and stumbles upon the film crew in the area trying to make a low-budget movie while being inundated with bird-watchers, hikers, or protestors. This allows for a constant stream of interactions throughout here with the creature running loose in the woods where it’s mistaken for the costumed actor on the film, attacking the rest of the crew, or just randomly encountering any of the people with some decently gory and violent encounters.
Outside of these factors, this one comes off with the kind of flimsy low-budget limitations usually found in these types of features. The majority of the film tends to act as though it’s all a series of unconnected sequences strung together to reach a predetermined running time with everything coming across as this kind of improvised action where people just ramble on and on since they think it’s funny to yell this while filming. In execution, though, this all makes the film feel long and cheap with so many of the scenes being interminably long and dragged out so it feels far longer than it really is, which is even worse with the flimsy effects matching the spirit and tone of the film but still looking rather cheap and silly as a result that all come together to lower this one.
Overview: **/5
An enjoyable enough genre effort that has a lot to like about it, this one comes off well enough for what it is despite several issues holding this one down overall. Give it a shot if you’re a fan of this type of feature or are a fan of the creative crew who will like this the most while most others out there should heed caution with this one.
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