Funny Movie About Filming Big Foot

Does Bigfoot exist? is a question that has plagued mankind for a century. If so, is it a gentle beast or a violent barbarian? Believe in it or not, for sixty years a score of horror movies have explored the topic, mainly depicting Bigfoot as an odious beast that torments wayward campers in the woods. Eduardo Sanchez, co-director of The Blair Witch Project, recently unleashed his Bigfoot film, Exists, in theaters and VOD. It's a familiar plot of promiscuous twentysomethings—including Becky from Friday Night Lights—staying at a cabin in the woods who are subjected to the wrath of Bigfoot. Using found footage and infrared technology, Exists doesn't come off as hokey and features a great sound design and moments of sheer horror. The Bigfoot genre began in the '50s and had its heyday in the 1970s when a surge of over 10 films hit theaters, including a Bigfoot porno called The Geek. The 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, with real footage of a purported Bigfoot, kicked off the craze, though sightings date back to the 1800s. In the past few years, everybody seems to have made a Bigfoot/Sasquatch movie: Bobcat Goldthwait (Willow Creek), Troma (Yeti: A Love Story), and Syfy (Bigfoot). Is Bigfoot just a fictive yarn or does it really... exist? In watching these films, Bigfoot is real, and it's pissed off.

Abominable (2006)

A Rear Window-like invalid isolates himself in a cabin in the woods and spies Bigfoot murdering his perky-breasted neighbors. One by one, the unrelenting 'Foot picks them off, but the invalid tries to intervene and save the remaining busty neighbor. Actors Matt McCoy (the nosy invalid) and Lance Henriksen are veterans of Bigfoot movies, having starred in three each.

Night of the Demon (1980)

This has to be the goriest Bigfoot movie ever made. The entire film's a flashback about an anthropologist and his students in search of the hirsute monster. While wandering through the woods, bad things happen to people having sex, taking a leak, and selling Girl Scout cookies. When a student confronts the beast, well, let's just say his intestines come out nice and easy. The movie was so violent that it was banned in the UK (stuffy Brits). Despite the extreme gorefest, some of the deaths are unintentionally funny.

Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

The most mainstream and sappiest of the Bigfoot genre, the movie inspired an entire subgenre of "family-friendly Bigfoot movies," such asBigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter starring one of those long-forgotten Home Improvement kids (Bigfoot wears sunglasses!). But in the Hendersons' version, Harry's an affable beast who becomes John Lithgow and A Christmas Story mom's (Melinda Dillon) unruly family pet. Harry threatens to destroy the bad people, but he's too nice to rip anybody's intestines out.

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Hammer Films produced a British film starring Peter Cushing, who leads a scientific expedition into the Himalayas to find and study the Yeti (a Himalayan Bigfoot). The movie's called Abominable Snowman, but the Yeti aren't as cute as the animated versions in Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer and Monsters Inc. Of course, things go terribly wrong on the expedition—it is the Himalayas, after all—but the death toll has nothing to do with the Yeti killing people. Instead, this film takes a different approach, insinuating that men are the savages and the Yeti are benevolent creatures just trying to survive. It helps their cause that they're not just going around tearing off human limbs.

The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)

A forerunner of the "Is this fiction or true?" genre, Boggy Creek features interviews with real people playing fictionalized versions of themselves discussing sightings of the Fouke Monster, a supposed real-life half-man, half-beast monster lurking in Arkansas. The folklore traces back to the '50s, when the area started reporting on strange occurrences and "unexplainable noises in the night." The drive-in movie produced four sequels and inspired The Blair Witch Project.

Snowbeast (1977)

Not to be confused with the 2011 film Snow Beast, the '70s Snowbeast features not-so-stylish ski outfits, Swedes, and a script written by Joseph Stefano, who wrote a much better thriller called Psycho. You must suspend your disbelief to watch the movie. The Yeti only thrives in the Himalayas, not the Colorado Rockies, where the movie takes place and was filmed. The Yeti goes after off-terrain skiers—Bigfoot doesn't actually ski—and tears them to shreds offscreen. The movie will make you think twice about going on a ski vacation, and wearing a one-piece ski suit.

The Mysterious Monsters (1975)

Peter "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?" Graves narrates and hosts a real documentary on cryptids like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, and he takes it as seriously as a Bigfoot ripping out a human's large intestine. For all of those faux-documentaries on Bigfoot, Monsters analyzes the plausibility of Bigfoot's existence using dramatic reenactments, polygraph tests, and real interviews with scientists debunking the Bigfoot mythology. Graves's conclusion: "I hope we won't destroy what we seek to understand."

Bigfoot (1970)

This film combines things that were popular at the time: Bigfoot, biker culture, and buxom women. A bigfoot (there are several of them) kidnaps a pair of scantily-clad women and holds them hostage in the California mountains. To add realism, the filmmakers shot the movie in locations where people reported sightings of Bigfoot (the only thing authentic about the movie). It's unclear what the bigfoots want with the women, but one girl speculates that it's for reproducing purposes (obviously). Although the bigfoots grunt a lot and brawl with a bear (spoiler: bigfoot wins), the beasts aren't very menacing to the viewer.

Drawing Flies (1996)

Kevin Smith produced a little-seen black-and-white Canadian Bigfoot movie, and it's quite bizarre, philosophical, and earnest. After directing Mallrats, Smith hired Canadian filmmakers Malcolm Ingram and Matt Gissing to direct Jason Lee and Jason Mewes traipsing through the Canadian wilderness. Donner (Lee) has a vision of Bigfoot and talks his clueless Gen X slacker friends into following him through the woods to find his uncle's cabin. The friends soon discover Lee's secret: He's actually tracking Bigfoot and has succumbed to a Colonel Kurtz-like madness. Drawing Flies wins the award for the most surreal Bigfoot film.

Strange Wilderness (2008)

A Bigfoot film proved to be irresistible to Adam Sandler, who executive-produced this zany movie encompassing a Sasquatch hunt. An ensemble cast comprised of Steve Zahn, Jeff Garlin, Ernest Borgnine, a thong-wearing Jonah Hill, and Justin Long work for a low-rated nature show. In order to increase ratings, the gang—with the exception of Borgnine and Garlin—head to Ecuador in search of Bigfoot. As in every comedy, things go awry—especially their encounter with Robert Patrick's mutilated testicles. The film tanked at the box office but unlike other films on the list, at least this Bigfoot film is supposed to be funny.

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