) called Scream of the Sasquatch..An absolutely fantastic hour & 40 minute or so worth of viewing..Humorous, witty & Directed by a Guy who obviously know his fair share about the subject too..
I'd recommend to anyone if not only for the fantastic Scenery Filmed ( fantastic for someone who has only seen the Forests of the PNW a limited amount of times on Documentaries etc, it gave me a real feel for the place ), & for any BF Fan that needs a little light relief..
I found this better review on Amazon which sums it up perfectly for me..
There will be two types of people for 'Scream of the Sasquatch': those who hate it for bad acting and those who love it for exactly what it is. This is NOT a documentary on bigfoot hunting, it is a parody of documentaries on bigfoot hunting. We have two characters, Frank VanderSchmidt and Ron Warren. Ron is the photo-proof kind of guy; Frank is his cousin (Larry)'s wife's brother and is of the kill-em-for-proof kind of guy. There are no opening credits and it's shot in such a way that makes you sort of think it is a viable documantary but there's never any mention of 'the big names' in the field of bigfoot research so you're not sure. What we get is a small cast that represents an amalgamation of those Dahinden, Krantz, Green, Byrne, Bindernagel, Fish, and the such. There's even the "Robby Peterson" film of 1972 parodying the famed Roger Patterson film.
This is an independent film in which, presumedly, the director used his friends to fill out the cast. The acting seems bad because you have real people portraying "real people." This is along the lines of _The Blair Witch Project_ for bigfoot people. I was sitting there watching it, disbelieving there are people like this in the bigfoot field but truth be told, that's what some of them actually are like. The character of Ron is very Paul Freeman-like while Frank is more of the obsessive Rene Dahinden type. The college professor/author is even a knock on the late Grover Krantz. I agonized over how bad the beginning of this was (thinking it was some guy's personal documentary) but when I just sat back and watched it, my view turned and the ending was so great that I ended up loving this film.
Overall, it's a fantastic Blair Witch-esque parody on sasquatch research and the 'investigators'. The best part is when you totally realize that it isn't really a documentary (took me about 15-20 minutes cuz I ordered it thinking it was one). I'm so glad I watched the whole thing because the acting is so bad that it helps the cohesion of the film and makes it work. Scream of the Sasquatch is perfect for "believers" and "skeptics" because it is so funny in that way. Believers will laugh at the parody, skeptics will say that's exactly how believers are. Certainly worth the money I paid for it and I'll watch it many times. Great job Guy Gilray
