The Curse of the Bigfoot (1975)

You won't be disappointed!

As Good As It Gets

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I came across this on a channel late at night, didn't see beginning. Decided to watch it even though the details on description gave it 1 star! All I gotta say is watch it for heck of it as it kept me curious and a little spooked! For a low budget film I'll give them credit on that.But, really, trying to kill the thing and only a sheriff is involved with them to help! So that part there made me give it a low rating. I'm like where is more help! Then after reading other reviews, ok my new TV isn't whacked! Yes night was daytime in some scenes! Because of these aspects after having to see if there were these observations in a review I decided to give my review- I didn't see anything on just a sheriff helping out. But on night scenes, thank you other reviewers to reassure my TV was ok!So for curiosity entertainment if you pass by it, it's worth a watch. Im sure you'll agree with all I wrote though! I'll leave it here with, really only a sheriff!

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.

User Comments: No talent, no direction, no rehearsing, no editing, no kidding (more) they forgot no story no action no plot NO GOOD! well, I've finally found it: the WORST movie ever made by far nothing else I've ever seen comes even remotely close this movie is obscenely shamelessly insanely BAD! The most hilarious thing about it is: twenty minutes OR MORE can go by where people are just climbing rocks or walking in lemon groves and the symphonic music sound-track rises and falls and rises to another climactic crescendo as if the most intense dramatic suspenseful action footage ever rendered is playing out on yer screen BUT IT ISN'T BELIEVE ME AS HOURS OF FOOTAGE OF BUSHES--OR PEOPLE WALKING... GO BY--THE SOUNDTRACK IS TRYING TO SAY "Suspense!--MIND WRENCHING, BUTT-CLENCHING Suspense!") :stupidest dialog stupidest ending ever I highly recommend it THIS you gotta see before you die (which event you will be longing for about five minutes in) yes--paper mache' granny wig monster costume with YES a ping pong ball with a hole in it as one of the eyes and as soon as the monster sees a human he HAS to kill you which he seems to accomplish by throwing his arms out to the side and falling on you truly truly truly bad movie, folks One of the funniest things (I thought): they find an engraved stone--about two by two feet flat on the ground they pry it up and there's a cave opening under it so they get a rope and go down and now it's a twenty by twenty foot opening no explanation whatsoever

My brother and I also enjoyed making fun of how bad this film was back when channel 9 showed it every two months or so in the mid to late seventies. Remember the incredible delivery of the girl talking to her dog, reminiscent of that "What? Sandwiches again?" commercial about learning to drive a tractor-trailer? I mainly recall the moment when they pull the plate covering the ancient tomb off and gas spurts out, with the leader of the expedition a full thirty seconds later surmising that the gas might be coming from a hole. I wonder if that scene was in any way an inspiration for Steven Spielberg in the equivalent scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when ... never mind.