Representing the ugly, filthy, unwashed hind end of Sasquatch cinema, this dreadful direct-to-TV hodgepodge profoundly reeks more than the allegedly malodorous mythical monster. A little boy and his yippy dog are attacked by Bigfoot in the opening scene; this occurrence is never tied in with the rest of the flick. Next a pompous high school science teacher gives an interminable lecture about the origins and discovery of Bigfoot to his understandably disinterested class. An intense guy shows up to relate a grim story about his own nasty run-in with Sasquatch. Several years ago the intense guy was a high school teacher who with a coed student quintet in tow ventured into the wilderness to check out an ancient Indian burial ground. The expedition finds a mountain and climbs it. They uncover Sasquatch's secret subterranean tomb. They enter the tomb and run across a perfectly preserved mummified corpse. They remove the corpse, which turns out to be Bigfoot (!), from the tomb. Bigfoot awakens from his centuries of sleep and goes on the rampage. Man, is this patchwork muddle one beat movie. Don Fields' static direction sorely lacks both finesse and energy, the performances are terribly wooden, the narration is very annoying (Bigfoot is described as "a monster of evolution"), the pace lurches along at an excruciatingly sluggish clip, the story uses a confusing and disjointed flashback-ridden narrative structure with mind-deadening results, the cinematography offers a wealth of appalling mismatchings of footage shot in two separate eras, the cornball bellowing score sounds like it was lifted from some Grade Z 50's schlock creature feature, the faded color film stock is pure torture on the eyes, a stupefying surplus of extraneous filler abounds, the supposedly exciting climax is simply pitiful (Sasquatch gets torched in a small brush fire), and the Bigfoot is a real letdown -- he's some short heavy-stepping schmo in a ragged bush league hair suit with a pop-eyed, inexpressive paper mache mask on his face! The absolute pits.
Review of Curse of Bigfoot
