Runtime: 94 minutes
Directed by: James C. Wasson
Starring: Michael Cutt, Joy Allen, Bob Collins, Jody Lazarus, Rick Fields
From: Aldan Company
What a Bigfoot movie this is; it's technically pretty bad but boy is it so enjoyable for a certain audience:
Believe me, the rating was solely due to sheer entertainment value and has nothing to do with the technical aspects of film... the story, the characters, logic, and especially the acting. This was the second of two Bigfoot movies I saw last night and wow was it different from the first. While The Capture of Bigfoot was rather staid and not graphic at all aside from some people being shown with a minor amount of blood on them, this was definitely R-rated and in fact, was unsurprisingly on the infamous British Video Nasty list.
Lord, what a movie this is. I am not surprised that many of the people involved never did anything else besides this; the movie is so low-budget it made The Capture of Bigfoot look like a modern Hollywood production. Professor Nugent (no, not Ted) and some students go investigate reports of Sasquatch and what they find... you could only get in a regional oddity such as this, which was filmed somewhere in California. I'll only mention the most infamous moment but in my opinion, most of Sasquatch's kills in Night of the Demon were as if he was a proto Jason Voorhees. The most memorable kill certainly had a lot of chuzpuh... as other reviews have brought it up, I'll reveal this astounding moment: a guy is urinating and not only is he lifted up by his penis, but his penis is ripped off! We get the pleasure of seeing the aftermath in all its lo-fi gore effects glory.
Between the film print that is on Amazon Prime being of VHS quality and the bizarre directions this goes, it is fair to use the “what a fever dream this is” cliché. Plus, there are such sights as a supporting character-who vanishes out of nowhere-looking like Ted Turner and an amazing painting of the Virgin Mary, which is described that way because the Virgin Mary has a face which uncomfortably looks like Saoirse Ronan! It was moments like this (along with a scene which has the two oldest "Girl Scouts" you'll ever lay eyes on) in a film that was usually at least pretty loony which help made this so enjoyable. For certain this movie is not for all tastes but by this point you will have determined if you want to see a bonkers Sasquatch picture which was made for incredibly cheap and yet has some graphic gore scenes.
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