It's time for a dose of comedy horror as creature feature mockumentary (aka funny found footage - is that a subgenre? It probably is now) BIGFOOT HUNTERS gets a cinema and digital release from Fractured Visions.
Tired of doing clickbait youtube pieces on craft beer and people living in dumpsters, and with his plans for a being appointed to a better profile job usurped by a foul-talking rival, Brian Emond (playing himself, it says here) finds himself with his producer and cameraman Zach (director Zach Lampaugh) in the Appalachian mountains on the trail of the legendary Bigfoot.
Their guide is sasquatch-obsessed Jeffrey, a cryptozoologist who still hasn't got over his girlfriend leaving him because of his hobby. Soon all three of them are lost in the woods. But what's that mangled body doing over there? Why are there Keep Out signs in an allegedly deserted area of forest? And what actually visited their campsite during their first night in the wilderness?
BIGFOOT HUNTERS wants to be a comedy and there certainly are some funny moments. The problem arises when it wants to mix in horror elements which are played just that little bit too seriously for our comedy team to play off successfully. It would be giving too much away to give specific examples, suffice to say the team behind SOUTH PARK series would have been able to take the kind of idea presented here and make it work, but the team behind BIGFOOT HUNTERS don't have quite the skill to mix the silly with the serious. As such it's a film that ultimately feels unsatisfying simply because some of the laughs should (and could) have landed rather better than they do.
BIGFOOT HUNTERS is out in cinemas on Friday 22nd October 2021 and on digital on Monday 25th October 2021
Does anyone know where I can watch this online?
ReplyDeletePresumably the digital release is out on most platforms - you can certainly rent it on Amazon Prime.
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