Suburban Sasquatch [2004]
[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]
This movie has a combo pack of things that will immediately make us laugh: terrible monster costume + terrible computer generated images. This movie is basically a blend of "Birdemic" and "Zaat" in terms of those features, but it also has that made-in-someone's-suburb-with-a-cheap-handheld quality that is verified at the end of the movie by a sea of credits featuring the same three names over and over again with the rest of the crew made up of people in the director's immediate family. Add in some bad lighting effects and some cultural ignorance and you have "Suburban Sasquatch," a movie whose title tells you everything you need to know about the quality.
The plot centers around a journalist trying to write a story about this sasquatch (who looks nothing like the movie cover; he's more a man in a gorilla suit that has genitalia??) that is terrorizing a town in Pennsylvania. He teams up with a "Native American warrior" girl whose destiny is to kill the sasquatch as her tribe has been keeping the 'squatch population under control for centuries. She lives in a tent in the woods and seems to be able to see through the eyes of a eagle because it's her spirit animal. The film spends a lot of time introducing random people to become victims. At one point squatchy tears a dog in two that is a stuffed animal that looks nothing like the original dog. There's a lot of utilization of fake limbs and CGI. There are CGI arrows, blood, birds (of "Birdemic" quality), and night time. Most of the movie is the two mains running through the woods, which is better than the victims who mostly just stay where they are and scream until they die. I can't remember the ending and the internet can't help me here either unless I want to watch a video about it. I'm gonna guess the squatchster is dead.
This one is worth your time.
Quotes:
"This game is going to get us killed and I don't know if I can live with that."
"This isn't your run-of-the-mill sasquatch."
Spoon Rating: 8
This movie has a combo pack of things that will immediately make us laugh: terrible monster costume + terrible computer generated images. This movie is basically a blend of "Birdemic" and "Zaat" in terms of those features, but it also has that made-in-someone's-suburb-with-a-cheap-handheld quality that is verified at the end of the movie by a sea of credits featuring the same three names over and over again with the rest of the crew made up of people in the director's immediate family. Add in some bad lighting effects and some cultural ignorance and you have "Suburban Sasquatch," a movie whose title tells you everything you need to know about the quality.
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