Bigfoot Movies

I will not hear a word against Harry And The Hendersons.

Funny, touching and with a quite incredible suit performance from Kevin Peter Hall and great star turn from Lithgow, that film is one of the best family movies to come out of the eighties. I watched it again only recently and it still holds up very very well.

That said, I too am still waiting for someone to give us a good bigfoot or yeti adventure/thriller personally.

In fact I've been waiting for someone to adapt Philip Kerrs Esau for well over a decade now. That book was tailor made to be turned into an action adventure epic. Hell it's written like it's based on a film to begin with.

Maybe I'm lying to myself (it wouldn't be the first time), but I quite liked ABOMINABLE. It's cheap and nasty, sure, but it's got some wonderfully gory kills and some full-frontal Tiffany Shepis. Result!

I recall seeing this on tv when I was six or seven and it was pretty scary, but then again I was still wearing Aquaman pajamas at the time, so my tastes may be a bit questionable (the 7-yr old me thought the original Battlestar Galactica was great, and it really, really isn't).

We watched it at our annual Halloween moviefest and it went over well; one of those movies that seems designed for group viewing/MST3K treatment.

There's 1980's Night of the Demon, from my tracker:

"Night of the Demon (1980) (VHS) *** It's essentially Friday the 13th, only Jason Voorhees is away on vacation and Bigfoot is putting in the overtime in his place.....and I mean putting in the overtime! Pitchforks, axes, doodlewang mutilation, Bigfoot babies, Bigfoot cults, Bigfoot up in your face! The opening credits, ushered in by the slowly-pooling blood of a victim's freshly-bleeding shoulder stump, should clue you in to the meanspiritedness and cheese in store. Highly recommended for trash connoisseurs and Bigfoot completists."

I remember there was this one Sci-Fi channel original movie which was literally just a cops-chase-robbers-in-the-woods-and-every-single-time-there's-a-mexican-stand-off-BIGFOOT-comes-and-kills-someone-then-runs-away. It was the most hilarious thing I've ever seen. Just imagine any low budget cops and robbers movie, but insert Bigfoot occasionally. Boom.

I liked it. There's something Lovecraftian about never seeing the threat. And the grouchy guy from F Troop co-starred.

If you broaden your parameters to include non-fiction films, I rather liked a 1999 documentary called Sasquatch Odyssey, which profiled four old men from various parts of the world who've spent 40 years looking for Bigfoot and the Yeti. They're total characters, and the film is less about the monster and more about the men (which is, of course, where the real story is).

No love for the Boggy Creek films? The Legend of Boggy Creek is kind of a cult classic, and had a really great poster.

And some TV shout-outs to Bigfoot and Wildboy and the various Six Million Dollar Man appearances.

Yeah, it's pretty atrocious. Almost bad enough to make even MST3K-ing it painful. Characters in the film call Bigfoot "the Squatch," which makes the creature sound like some kind of crotch fungus.

Agent Z beat me to it, but I've pimped Night of the Demon at least twice on these here boards over the years. There should have been a moritorium on Bigfoot films after its release, hell, maybe a moratorium on movies period, because you'll be hard pressed to find anything more entertaining than that ridiculously stinky hunk of cheese.

Holy Hell! That sounds amazing.

There's also Snowbeast, with Bo Svenson taking on Bibgfoot at a ski resort, and a teleplay by Joseph Stefano.

I liked ABOMINABLE a bunch. Even did a Creature-Corner review for it. Love that the skull-crunching beast looked like a mutie Jack Elam. I definitely would have loved JCVD in a Bigfoot flick though. It's not too late!

But my favorite hands down is LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK. The faux documentary skeevy redneck 70s drive-in vibe scared me as a kid late night and now just remains as this time capsule oddity. Just can't shake the effect it had on me growing up.

HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS is better than its simply-Speilberg-produced legacy implies. Baker's suit is phenomenal and the performances are all just the right mixture of family-friendly-intensity and sweetness. I showed this flick to my daughter a couple years ago (she's 6 now). She was afraid of Harry at first (ET as well), due to the mysterious way he's filmed in the beginning, but by the end, she was in love. When Lithgow smacks Harry in the face to shoo him into the woods (for his own good), my daughter turned to me with tears streaming down her face. SHe buries her head in my chest and weeped for the poor Bigfoot. I felt terrible that a movie I picked out for her brought her to this state, but beamed at the same time. She danced along with movies before and was even frightened a bit as well (Wicked Witch in Oz). But it was the first time she was this moved by a film and felt so much sympathy for a fictional character. Revisiting the movie with her was a great lesson on Spielbergian emotional manipulation. Movie Magic!

She spent the rest of the night telling me that I was the Daddy Harry and she was the Baby Harry.



True fact: Lance Henriksen and Matt McCoy are tied in Sasquatch film casting. 3-3!

LOL. Yep, Abominable was great. Really don't get the "MST3K" comments.

Well, that's just freakin' adorable. Or is it abominable?

..abominadorable?!?

Just what I always wanted! My own little bunny rabbit. I will name him George and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him

Sorry, but this wa sthe first thing that came to my mind here.

SASQUATCH: THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT scared the crap out of me as a kid, particularly the mountain cabin sasquatch siege.

There is an old Japanese monster movie called Half Human which features a snowman. The movie is supposedly really good, and it was directed by Ishiro Honda in his prime. Sadly, it is seldom seen as it was banned for its "racist" depiction of Japanese tribes. There is a U.S. version out there, but it was cut to shreds (A 98 minute picture was cut to 63 minutes, and thats counting the inserted American actors), so don't bother.

Bumbles bounce!


You can't dangle that in front of me and NOT expect me to go hunt it down.

I saw Legend of Boggy Creek and my very first Godzilla film at a real-live drive-in in North Carolina one glorious Saturday night when I was a kid. I guess I was about 11 at the time, and we lived in a house with literally miles of woods, including a creek, behind our house. My dad got off a lot of practical jokes on me and my sisters that summer. It'll always hold a special place in my heart, just for that.

And let's not forget:

Since Disney's been on this kick lately where they're turning theme park rides into movies, where's a Matterhorn flick, complete with its own Yeti? I'd see that.

I'm a fan of Abominable. Yeah, its got its problems, but I dig the Rear Window angle but there are some pretty great kills (face bite!) and some decent scares. Lots of fun. And as a Seinfeld fan, I love the idea of Lloyd Braun being menaced by Sasquatch. So theres that.

Also, I'd like to take a moment to drop a huge pile of hate onto the third Mummy movie for that terrible terrible Yeti sequence.

Harry and the Hendersons is the greatness.

If you don't like the "Messin with Sasquatch" commercials from Jack Links beef jerkey...you have a problem.

I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but does anybody else remember this, George Kennedy's finest hour? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonwarp

I had this on VHS back when I'd buy anything with aliens/monsters/scantily clad ladies in peril (and I think there was a tenuous "special effects from the people who brought you Nightmare On Elm Street" involved as well...). Quite possibly the most inadvertently hilarious Bigfoot attacks in movie history, with zombies and aliens thrown in as well. Awful, awful film but I watched it way too many times. Please tell me somebody else has seen/secretly enjoyed this...

(bonus Bigfoot attack - http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9vN8kyRnA )

This DTV movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829442/got a decent review on Horror.ca the other day. Not seen it myself, but like others here really wanting a good Bigfoot horror....

I actually don't mind admitting that to this day that scene has as direct a line to my tear ducts and making my heart hurt as the "When Somebody Loved Me" montage in Toy Story 2. It's a scene that quite literally just thinking about causes me to fight back tears. Lithgow and Hall sell the living hell out of that scene and as far as tugging at the heart strings go it really is a moment worthy of Spielberg for me.

Seriously tho as I mentioned earlier, if no one here has read it and they want some pulpy geo-political action adventure with gigantic scary yetis thrown in, I really recommend giving Phil Kerrs Esau a read. It's a fun book.

Anyone remember a flick released theatrically back in, oh, maybe 1978 or 1979 that was a faux documentary about a bunch of guys doing a horseback expedition for Bigfoot? I don't remember a ton about it, except a shot of a Bigfoot at night, in the shadowed trees, scaring the shit out of my 11 year old self.

Tenacious D's Sasquatch video is pretty great. It's on a certain video site, should you want to google.

Does War of the Gargantua count? Because in the Japanese version the monsters are called "Green Bigfoot" and "Brown Bigfoot". Although the film is in fact a sequel to Frankenstein Conquers the World so technically the monsters are a giant irradiated Frankenstein s' Monster and his evil green clone!

I'd add the In Search Of episode on Bigfoot which creeped me the fuck out as a kid. Leonard Nimoy narrated with such authority that I was convinced Bigfoot must be real.

And as mentioned above, The Six Million Dollar Man really did a cool riff on Bigfoot.

The Venture Bros did an even cooler riff on both of them I reckon.

Was it LEGEND OF BIGFOOT?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279919/

Title is close, but I think it was SASQUATCH, THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078203/

"Ya didn't tell me....that Bigfoot....was a dude."

"Aw, ol' sasquatch doesn't have anything you've never seen before."

"HE IS SOMETHING I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!"

This is the movie I was thinking of; I'm assuming it's probably utter shit.

And you'd be right.

An episode of Quantum Leap had a Bigfoot subplot. The main plot was about Sam helping a Vietnam Vet. There was a little kid always taking about Bigfoot. Just before Sam leaps, he sees Bigfoot.

Edited by Chaz - 5/26/12 at 4:46pm

Avoid the SASQUATCH DUMPLING GANG and STRANGE WILDERNESS bigfoot comedy duo. Equally dumb. Both with Justin Long! C'mon, Justin, you're only one flick behind Lance H and M McCoy! You need a good one on record.

Just had a nostalgic trip down childhood lane with Flight of the Navigator and Harry and the Hendersons. I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't mined a big budget Bigfoot movie yet. Even yetis are getting more screentime than bigfoot nowadays. 

 

Speaking of Yetis.

 

 

Call it Wampa all you want but you know what it really is.

 

 

And the most famous bigfoot of them all

 

Edited by User_32 - Yesterday at 9:22 am