Sasquatch Hunters Year: 2004 Director: Fred Tepper Written by: Alain Matz Threat: Sasquatch Weapon of Choice: Bear Trap Based upon: none Color/B&W/3D: Color Language: English Country of Origin: USA IMDb page:

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Rish Outfield's reviews
Well, I suppose I should say this before tyranist can: I don't really know why I rented Sasquatch Hunters. It might be that it was recommended to me by someone (or something), it might be that I mistook it for something else, and hey, it might have been an honest mistake.
The movie tells the tale of three friends from Pennsylvania who like hunting, drinking, and having a good time. Then they go off to Vietnam to make the world safe for democracy and have to play Russian Roulette with a group of . . .
Whoops, I've just been informed that I've been describing The Deer Hunter. Sorry about that.
Apparently this one has a group of forest rangers and paleontologists running around the woods when they find some amazing ape-like bones where they shouldn't be. Turns out these bones belong to Bigfoot and pals, who don't force our heroes to play Russian Roulette, but are no less unfriendly.
Look, this movie is just so mediocre, so unremarkable, so forgetable and harmless that I don't really feel like bashing it. At the same time, part of the point of this website is to warn people to stay away from bad horror films, so I have to review Sasquatch Hunters.
It was very low-budget and featured CGI monster effects that range from somewhat adequate to hilariously awful. It was dull and rambling and poorly-executed, and there are a couple of references to The Searchers that didn't seem appropriate in a Grade C monster flick.
Still, the film is far from the worst ones out there. In fact, the script is often fairly well-written, and semi-intelligent (as in the part where they talk about the Elephant Man's bones). Other times, though, it was really trite and really dumb (like when the girl asks, "What's a Elephant Man?").
I said earlier that renting this might have been an honest mistake. I did find out, a moment ago, that there was another movie called Sasquatch Hunters made in 1997. Perhaps that was the one I meant to get.
Posted: December 20, 2006

The tyranist's thoughts
It is a mark of our long standing friendship that whenever one of us picks out a movie as dreadful as Sasquatch Hunters, the other watches it and gleefully blames him for having made such a poor choice. This one was bad, but probably not quite that bad.
I didn't really enjoy it. There were pacing problems, effects problems, character problems, editing problems and the fact that it just really wasn't that scary. I remember a few scenes so dark that it was nearly impossible to figure out what was going on. They did that intentionally I'm sure, but they shouldn't have.
Also, instead of a big lumbering beast, those things were lightning fast and virtually silent when they wanted to be. I'm not much of a sasquatch authority, but the mythology I recall just doesn't seem to quite line up that way.
And it didn't help that the main monster mask seemed to be a King Kong reject.
I didn't kill me to see this, but you can save yourself a couple hours by choosing not to see it.
Posted: December 20, 2006

Total Skulls: 17

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?