Whether or not you believe in some hidden race of yet undiscovered nine foot tall wood-boogers is irrelevant when it comes to the bossman of the forest's varied silver screen appearances over the years, providing viewers with both shocks n' shlock in everything from half-baked mockumentaries to vintage porn. Whatever your preference in cinematic bipedal crypto-primates may be, there's probably something you'll enjoy here. Or laugh hysterically at, in some(most, really) cases.
16) Legend of Bigfoot(1976)
"That's not Bigfoot! That's my wife!" might sound like the punchline to a joke, but it could also double as the synopsis for this mockumentary by legendary outdoorsman and hoaxer, Ivan Marx.
15) Beauties and the Beast(1974)
"Hey Mack, would you mind telling that leg-jacked bimbo underneath you that your bag is slappin' off of to roll slightly to the right? She's on top of my leaf pouch and my magic berries are in there..."
14) Bigfoot(1970)
D-cupped go-go girls get lugged off by libidinous mate-starved monsters(translation: phony-looking monkey suits) while John Carradine enlists teenaged dirtbikers to help him blow off dynamite on even phonier-looking sets.
13) Capture of Bigfoot(1979)
Forget about the embarrassing white Bigfoot suit that belongs on a Lost in Space set chasing Dr. Smith around some foam boulders for a minute, and realize that this movie houses one of the most ridiculous dummy shots in cinema history.
12) Snowbeast(1977)
'Jaws'(1975) in the made-for-tv snow; tough guy Bo Svenson hogs eighty-six minutes of screen time, the Yeti gets two.
11) Sasquatch-The Legend of Bigfoot(1977)
A mid-seventies mockumentary with more padding than payoff, but if baggy gorilla suits silhouetted against the skyline, staged animal attacks, and encounter dramatizations are what socks it to you, then here you are. The much scrutinized Patterson/Gimlin Big Suit footage also figures prominently, as one would expect in this type of thing.
10) Mysterious Monsters(1975)
That mask-uatch bears a striking resemblance to Rene Auberjonois. Peter Graves also says "Ah."
9) The Untold(2002)
Lance Henriksen and pals search the dense forest for his missing daughter and his company's missing DNA sequencing technology and are, in turn, hunted down, one by one like animals by what's tantamount to the live-action version of this guy right here.
8) Yeti - il gigante del 20. secolo(1977)
Whatsa mattah you, Italian Disco-Yeti, why you change-ah you size right-ah before my very eyes-ah?
7) Curse of Bigfoot(1975)
This movie is undeniable proof that Bigfoot doesn't exist, because, if he did, he'd surely lumber down out of the wilderness and put his colossal skunk apey foot up the asses of everybody that was still alive that had a hand in making this one. Pure rotten enjoyment.
6) Abominable(2006)
Bigfoot bites a guy's head in half like a goo-filled chocolate easter bunny. Do I really need to add anything to that?
5) Shriek of the Mutilated(1974)
The greatest global-networking-cannibal-cult-uses-yeti-as-a-cover-to-eat-groovy-collegiates movie ever made.
4) Creature From Black Lake(1976)
A hippified conscientious objector named Rives and a 'Nam vet named Pahoo who hates fried chicken, on an Bigfoot investigative grant from college, drive to the bayou and encounter amorous hillbilly girls, Jack Elam in his long johns, and are serenaded by Dub Taylor's countrified warbling. Bigfoot is not amused.
3)The Legend of Boggy Creek(1972)
John Chesna knows every word to this movie and sings all the songs, you don't even have to ask him to, most of the time. I hear Smokey may even make him an honorary Crabtree in a ceremony someday down there in the lonely bottoms.
2) Horror Express(1972)
When an ancient brain-sucking alien intelligence inhabits a suddenly unfrozen 'squatch on a passenger train, you'd better make sure Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are on board. Cossack Telly cracks a mean interrogative lash, too. Old school late night television delight.
1) Night of the Demon (1980)
Anyone who's seen this one knows full well, this movie lost it's footing during the pre-credit sequence and plunged headlong into a fifty-five gallon vat of crazy, from which some good egg threw it a towline comprised entirely of insane gore set pieces, but despite game rescue attempts, it drowned in the fucking crazy, any ol' ways.
2 comments:
I liked Sasquatch-The Legend of Bigfoot. As a Bigfoot documentary it was pretty weak but it worked as a Call of the Wild type documentary. It reminded me a lot of the sort of stuff we used to get at our local cinema as the B feature. Usually a docu about an animal crossing the American countryside and having an adventure.
Right on, brother. I saw that one at the Forty-Fort Theater with a couple o' girls from my grade school class in 1977. I'm pretty sure I liked it more than either of those two did.
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