Director: John Ragsdale
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Looking into a local urban legend, a pair of podcasters look into a series of stories about various individuals coming across a figure believed to be the legendary Bigfoot, but when they find the real killer is haunting the woods must find a way to stop the killer.
Review:
This wasn’t all that great, but it does have some decent ideas at play. Among the main positives featured here is the solid enough starting point, where everyone is brought together into the woods looking for a series of cases that are plaguing the community. The podcast episode on the whole idea, tracing a series of strange incidents or encounters where they’re violently killed or disappear around town over the years, paints the town as a hotbed of potential sightings for the creature, which they’re going to investigate. The second group, who head into the woods for a vacation hike and come across the wildman killer while they’re trying to make due with the dwindling supplies they have, causing them to come into contact with the crazed killer themselves, who offers a series of cheesy low-budget encounters of the killer arriving out of the woods to attack.
Outside of this, there’s not much to the film. The dragging pace, despite barely being over an hour, manages to drag with endless scenes of the girlfriends wandering around the woods trying to enjoy their vacation, but doing everything instead of encountering the killer, makes this an extremely frustrating and sluggish start to everything. The incidents with the killer don't even start until over the halfway mark and most of what’s going on isn’t related to that anyway so it keeps the film barely concerned with its main storyline for the majority of the running time as we only get a single deviation away from the main group with the killer stumbling upon a single stranger randomly in the woods for an extra kill. On top of that, the ones we do get are cheap and barely that worthwhile anyway, for how brief and quick they are over, the cheesy effects work, and the final battle itself, which are just so cheap-looking and silly it’s hard to take seriously, holding it back.
Overview: */5
A generally underwhelming and troublesome genre effort, there’s not much to like here as this one as the series of issues present are more impactful than the rest of the issues. Viewers who can appreciate this style or who are fine with the issues involved here will want to give it a shot, while most others out there should heed caution with this one.
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