Sasquatch Hunters

I got this movie out of Blockbuster in one of those racks were you can get like 5 movies for 20 bucks. I'd have to say I got my money's worth on this one. I had expected horrible dialogue, crappy monsters, and shaky cameras. Well, as Meatloaf said, two outta three ain't bad.

The acting is bad, though not as bad as some movies I've seen. Or maybe I've watched so many low budget movies recently I've lost perspective. There are some bits were the acting is downright terrible, but for the most part it's of at least High School Play level.

The CG for the Sasquatch in this movie is probably the second-worst part. The first thing I thought when I saw it (and I noticed another reviewer agreed with me) was that a man in an ape suit would have been better. Clunky stop-motion animation would have looked better.

So you may be asking why I call the CG the second-worst part. That's because the very worst part of the movie is the sound effects. They are loud, annoying, and constant. I've been camping, I know what insects sound like in the woods at night, and while they can be loud, they're not deafening like the cacophony in this movie. Usually when the "background" sounds drown out the movie's dialogue, it's a bad thing, but from what I caught of the dialogue of this film, I wasn't missing much.

The action was infrequent and boring. The tension was non-existent, as was any sense of empathy with the characters. Speaking of the characters, they were all cookie-cutter and bland. The only mildly engaging byplay was between...actually, I can't think of anything. There was a line or two that made me crack a wan smile, but that was about it.

The cinematography was decent, a step or two above what you'd normally see in a movie like this. However, it still had that "home movie" quality to it that you get with movies made on pocket change and a prayer.

If you're like me and get a kick out of shoestring budget genre flicks, and you see this one in the dollar bin, think about grabbing it. Otherwise, stay away at all costs.

foywonder's review of this cheap STV hits the nail squarely on the head. Make sure you read it. In case you don't, a group of scientists heads off into the deep woods of the Pacific Northwest, to fumble around with a bunch of bones in an animal graveyard. The Big Foot family doesn't take kindly to this, and proceeds to pick off the team one by one, largely offscreen. Big Foot himself has a distinctly ape-like face, but is less scary overall than Harry from HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS. Most of the movie has the wooden, generic actors pretending to be scientists tromping around in the woods and yakking away. This is a no-budget movie in which very little happens, at least on screen. We do get to watch the sexiest of the females take a shower while one of her male companions watches, but nothing comes of this.

"Sasquatch Hunters" is a very bad Bigfoot flick… Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered a good or even half-decent Bigfoot flick. Them seventies flicks like "Legend of Boggy Creek", "Creature from Black Lake" and "Sasqua" are undoubtedly charming to look at, but you honestly can't refer to them as good movies. But the newest generation of Sasquatch/Snowman/Bigfoot movies, like "Devil on the Mountain", "Abominable" and also including this "Sasquatch Hunters" are beyond awful and downright pathetic. Recurring defaults in all of them are the miserable computer generated special effects (whatever happened to putting a large fat bloke into a hairy costume), the budgetary restraints and the cast full of untalented nobodies. Somewhere in a remote and forestry region – I forgot which one – a bunch of park rangers team up with a trio of paleontologists in search of … old monkey bones! But why settle for dead monsters' skeletons when you can have an actual encounter with a real (and very hungry) Sasquatch? The killing sequences are laughably inept and insultingly fake, most notably the one where our giant stupid monkey smashes someone against a tree. The cast is mostly unmemorable, except maybe for the girl with her enormous hooters in a tight blue top. Otherwise there isn't anything else to say about "Sasquatch Hunters" apart from skip it

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

A bunch of scientists and rangers head out into the woods to look for fossils. They stumble upon a Bigfoot graveyard. Those bones are huge! Could gorillas be living out here in the woods? What creature could have chowed down on a bear and thrown him up a tree? It must be a Sasquatch. The scientists will have to toughen up if they want to survive the night as the Sasquatch doesn't like anyone messing with his buried friends and relatives.

"Sasquatch Hunters" is a decent B-movie. I knew it was going to be a straight down the middle flick when two idiots were killed in the first ten minutes. The Sasquatch is an angry monster who likes to hunt humans. My kind of beast. The effects were laughable and the girl with the biggest breasts didn't get topless but overall I was satisfied. It's worth a look if you like monster flicks.

There have been many movies featuring Bigfoot, the majority of which are not good but most at least have a goofy charm to them. Sasquatch Hunters doesn't even have that going for it. It's just a crashing bore.

Sasquatch Hunters is about a group of paleontologists, primatologists, and forest rangers that venture off into a remote part of a Pacific Northwest forest. Bones belonging to some sort of abnormally large primate have been discovered in this region and since apes aren't natural to North America to begin with this leads to a scientific expedition. Sure enough, they soon discover a whole burial ground full of the skeletal remains of these enormous ape-like creatures. I think we all know what happens to people that disturb ancient burial grounds in the movies.

The first half of the movie consists of uninteresting, interchangeable characters assembling their gear, hiking through the woods, stopping to rest, hiking through the woods some more, pausing long enough to investigate and discuss a few findings along the way, yet more hiking through the woods, looking for a group member that has vanished, even more hiking through the woods, digging through dirt, random theorizing, and gathering around a campfire to discuss what little they've done that day. When Sasquatch finally shows up it just turns into people stumbling around in the dark while being picked off one at a time (done in a blink and you missed it fashion and the actual killing occurs off-camera). All of this is excruciatingly boring.

The movie wants to be taken seriously and the director is clearly trying to build suspense but there is none to be found, thus we are left with dull, drawn out scenes of people wandering around the woods just to get somewhere and wander around the woods at night trying to act scared. I'd be lying if I said I didn't make liberal use of the fast forward button to speed these scenes up.

As for Sasquatch himself, much like every other character else in the movie, it doesn't have much to do and lacks a distinct personality. It looks like a shaggier version of King Kong, which isn't all that bad except in the scenes where they used CGI instead of a man in a Bigfoot costume, which is painfully obvious during the daylight monster scenes. A part of me can't help but feel that even using computer effects to bring Bigfoot to life is a tad sacrilegious. If there is any single movie monster that I believe should only be brought to life through situation, it's Bigfoot.

This is one of those movies that doesn't so much have a plot as it does a premise. That's all it really is, a premise, which the people involved stretched out to make a feature length motion picture without bothering to add all the ingredients to make a worthwhile movie.