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Discovering Bigfoot

  • Video
  • 2017
  • TV-14
  • 1h 30m
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3.9/10
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Discovering Bigfoot (2017)
Documentary

Reality Entertainment and The Sylvanic Cooperation presents "Discovering Bigfoot." Discovering Bigfoot is the first feature film documentary with real live interaction between a Bigfoot crea... Read allReality Entertainment and The Sylvanic Cooperation presents "Discovering Bigfoot." Discovering Bigfoot is the first feature film documentary with real live interaction between a Bigfoot creature, wilderness experts, PhD's and other world renowned experts and researchers of the Bi... Read allReality Entertainment and The Sylvanic Cooperation presents "Discovering Bigfoot." Discovering Bigfoot is the first feature film documentary with real live interaction between a Bigfoot creature, wilderness experts, PhD's and other world renowned experts and researchers of the Bigfoot enigma. Journey into the heart of Sasquatch Country with Todd Standing who appeared ... Read all

  • Director
    • Todd Standing
  • Stars
    • John Bindernagel
    • Jeffrey Meldrum
    • Todd Standing
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.9/10
    733
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    • Director
      • Todd Standing
    • Stars
      • John Bindernagel
      • Jeffrey Meldrum
      • Todd Standing
    • 68User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    1whocontrolsyourmouth

    I'm interested, but...

    Todd, you're simply not delivering the goods. We don't need another ghost hunter reality TV show. We need something that's harder to fake..

    Show us some hair or scat or any kind of DNA to confirm that it's unique. You've allegedly got specimens standing in places you've prepared. Use hair traps in those areas.

    Also, do what it takes to get a decent rotary wing drone with gyro stabilized conventional and infrared cameras. Good aerial footage of multiple animals navigating rugged terrain would be very compelling.

    And don't stop there. You say you know where they live. Get a high altitude fixed wing drone into the mix. Follow them home after one of your apple parties. You could document group behavior with very low risk of exposure.

    That coupled with hard DNA evidence would go a long way to building scientific consensus and lower the probability of actually having to capture one to end the controversy.

    So there you go, big guy. If you can't pick it up and run from there, then you're just another grifter. Please prove me wrong.
    4jal-74861

    Meh.

    There are some compelling pieces in this documentary and I always respect Jeff Meldrum's opinion. He is one of the few, if not the only, BF researcher that sticks to a scientific approach without leaping to drastic conclusions about their existence.

    I agree with many of the other comments in that there doesn't appear to be anything new, the production quality is bad and there's no flow with editing either. Making this hard to follow at times.

    I'm also not quite on board with some of the video showing "bigfoot". Since I don't really know what a bigfoot should look like I guess these could be real. Then again they don't seem to match with other representations I'm familiar with which depict them with a more conical shaped head and almost no neck. These look, to me, way too human. Like a guy in a mask human. The black one we barely see, again to me, seems like footage of a black gorilla that was edited into the documentary. Also, these supposed tree structuctures prove nothing. These could have easily been made by humans without leaving any human "tracks" or evidence. I'm also pretty sure a bear would enjoy a red delicious apple and eat every part of it. There are many animals that could take the apple and run or fly off with it without leaving a trace as well. In fact, in Todd's rationale he shows us in the moss how hard it would be to leave a track unless you were extremely heavy so this notion that it has to be a bigfoot that took the apples is a non-starter. I also didn't get the sense that Dr. Meldrum was completely buying that rationale either and it's probably because there's nothing scientific about apples going missing in the middle of the wilderness.

    Also, I noticed right away before any mentioning of Les Stroud, that the area they focused on with the tree structures is the same area that Les Stroud was in for his show where he also used the apples. I thought that episode of Survivorman was fairly compelling so maybe there's something worth investigating in more detail? Todd actually appeared in that episode.

    The irony to this is that this documentary was released in 2017 and I just watched it in 2024. I would think that if Todd, Les and Jeff all saw things that they felt were worth investigating further, they would have. I'm talking about sending in the scientific and technological communities on a several month excursion to surround a large area and begin shrinking that circle with man power and technology and thereby trapping one or possibly an entire "community" of them. Based on Todd's knowledge of that area and his vast encounters with them I would think this would be ground zero for finally proving their existence. Yet, none of that has happened, no follow ups, no large expeditions, no Diane Fossey like observational research, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. If there's so much evidence, sightings and interaction with them why has there been no large scale effort to discover them?

    I think that's because there's nothing really scientific going on here at all to warrant such an effort. Trees broken in half (btw is common in every wooded area that I've been in), missing apples, growling/snorting that sounds more like a bear, some guy running around in camouflage and blurry vague video doesn't really warrant a full on follow up expedition.

    In general, I'm a large skeptic of most cryptids except for bigfoot. Mostly because we have actual physical proof of such a creature in Gigantopithicus existed. Because of that, and compelling footprints complete with tissue scarring and hinge marks that it is no scientific stretch to think that Gigantopithicus, or some other bipedal primate still exists. Unfortunately, this documentary doesn't advance any new theories or evidence.
    6xxxxxdarkmoon

    better be careful, when going into the woods

    Either this man is the greatest cheater, as even the film's experts saw no signs of a fake scenario that would require a lot of preparation, or it is true, real. There is crystal clear footage of the faces of these entities. In addition, night vision material, infrared. Tracks and much more. I don't understand the negative comments in some reviews.
    1whocontrolsyourmouth

    THIS IS A 90 MINUTE AD FOR A "SASQUATCH ENCOUNTER" TOUR

    It's looking pretty grim here folks. Go to sylvanic.com and all that's offered there is a $5K encounter adventure with Todd. It would seem he's far more interested in taking people into the middle of nowhere and scaring the shit out of them than actually proving his claims.

    I sent him an email on how to get the evidence (hair traps and decent drones) to objectively confirm his claims. No response.

    Sorry Todd, your little flick to market your bullshit "meet the sasquatch" camp out fell on its face. I guess your sasquatch masks should have been a good clue. They look little to nothing like one another and the one peering through the log is obviously a gorilla mask.

    I'm sorry you have to wake up every morning and still be a piece of shit grifter. But hey, maybe you're a true psychopath and genuinely can't help yourself.
    2mrzibbo

    I do recommend to watch it! It's amusing!

    Where to start? This film is hilarious! It's so phony and so fake, it is an insult to intelligence ...or maybe made just for good laugh! I really enjoyed stupidity of it, it's sooo bad.. I mean very badly made.. but it's also bloody funny! Just watch it guys :) enjoy "delicious apples" scene, oh man, I pissed my pants it was so hilarious. Why I would give 2 stars and not one? One star because it's so bad and another because its a good laugh!

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      At 1:28:00, when Todd is attempting to break the tree, there is a howl heard in the distance that neither of the individuals there seem to notice.
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    • Release date
      • December 15, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Todd Standing's website
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Обнаружен снежный человек
    • Filming locations
      • Alberta, Canada(wilderness)
    • Production company
      • Reality Entertainment (RE)
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      • 1h 30m(90 min)
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