Curse of Bigfoot: Bad Movie Review

[@Prohass]

“The mummy/bigfoot - we’re just going to have to make peace with that” the delivery of this line cracked me up

[@BGNOLA]

One of the kids in the 70s footage is "Debbie" from Manos the Hands of Fate; no kiddin'!

[@dddglobe36]

Torgo!

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Good to know.

[@BlackMoore82]

“Shakespeare believed in Bigfoot” 😆

[@midwestmonster9886]

"Think you're better than Shakespeare?" 🤣

[@stillhuntre55]

Wow - I have to hand it to them... they made a movie! I have a hard time catching up on my laundry!

[@atrendlecalledreese443]

The "T-Rex" in King Dinosaur comes to mind. Looks nothing like a dinosaur, let alone a T-Rex.

[@ericjanssen394]

Curse of Bigfoot: “(hits head exiting cave)…Ow, F***!!” 😛

[@jimnasium452]

George Lucas adds *Boink!* sound effect

[@ivane5110]

I don't know why, but I always loved the scenes where an "expert" is brought in and explain things with drawings, diagrams, etc for far longer than the director should've allowed.

[@mikehunt4986]

1998's "Godzilla" gave us a Godzilla that was just an overgrown mutant iguana that didn't even breathe fire.

[@thribs]

Nothing wrong with that. Over the years we have had multiple interpretations of the creature

[@mikehunt4986]

@@thribs Some better than others. Godzilla 1998 was by far the worse. You can't just accept EVERY interpretation of something, no matter how far away from the original it is. "Nothing wrong with that?" What the fuck is wrong with you?

[@julietfischer5056]

It did breathe fire, but that moment went by without notice.

[@georgecoventry8441]

Yes, that one was a huge disappointment, no pun intended.

[@mikehunt4986]

@@julietfischer5056 I remember everyone cheering the one time he/she sort of did it. It was the only time people cheered when I saw it in the theater.

[@WaxWingedAvian]

We need to solve the Curse of all these bad movies.

[@zerozerohero7189]

Its called wokism

[@zerozerohero7189]

Its called wokism

[@Philbert-s2c]

@@zerozerohero7189 Right. Films over half a century old are "Woke." Seriously, go away and take your fash word of the week with you...

[@WaxWingedAvian]

Not what I was implying

[@dngillikin]

Wokism? I blame the popularity and tastiness of stir-fry for the widespread adoption of woks in American kitchens.

[@alandhopewell]

1957's FROM HELL IT CAME jumps immediately to the fore.

[@ralphyetmore]

"Been waiting a half hour". Yup. Sounds like a typical Bigfoot hunter.

[@schizoidboy]

I remember seeing some of this when I was a kid and they were showing this on late night TV. I think I fell asleep watching it.

[@andy0liver]

I like the "Guest Speaker", he's got definite Herbert West vibes about him

[@ashleys9397]

He even looks like Jeffrey Coombes.

[@suedenim]

If I remember correctly, he's actually the same actor who played the teacher in the 1950s footage, which always struck me as unusually careful continuity for a crap movie.

[@lurkerrekrul]

I watched this when I was fairly young and it scared the crap out of me. Mummies and other dead things coming back to like was kind of a phobia of mine. Around the same age, I once started watching Horror Express, got as far as seeing the thing in the crate with glowing eyes, and turned it off. Yes, I did watch the entire movie when I was a little older.

[@jturnbow71]

The creature from Godmonster of Indian Flats was more realistic and terrifying.

[@briancoulombe4517]

I’m gonna make a movie where I’m just sitting around in my backyard for a couple of hours and I’m gonna title it “curse of the Loch Ness monster”

[@markc4050]

"Hay!! Don't bale on us!!"

[@alandhopewell]

This was a frequent flyer on post-one am local tv in the Seventies.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

2:06 "But what I _want_ you to tell us is just where and _huawhe_ en did the legendary Griffin get it's star?" Um... *Family Guy?* "Say 'cool whip'" as far as biggest disappointment in what the "monster" turned out to be, there's always *Sorcerer (1977)*

[@davidlionheart2438]

The abysmal "An American Werewolf In Paris" comes to mind. It's "lycanthropes" look hilariously like damned bipedal cows.

[@boardskins]

At least they were damned

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

Believe it or not, in my senior year of high school, I took a fun class that was pretty much exactly like the class in this movie. Haha! It was run by one of the biology teachers. We did all kinds of interesting stuff and studied cryptids, ghosts, telepathy, and all kinds of woo. The teacher wasn't a believer, and was nothing like the teacher in this movie. She just saw it as a fin class to talk about crazy beliefs and stuff and about how they've affected our society. I recall that during the "Loch Ness Monster" and "lake monster" section of the course, I was so vocal about my disbelief and the guy who sat next to me was so vocal about his belief, that the teacher thought it would be fun to have the two of us do a formal debate at the end of the week. I remember that I organized this huge debunk of the Loch Ness Monster. I went over every freakin' famous photo and pointed out the issues with them. I talked about skepticism and about the scientific method and how the "researchers" who were on TV at the time tended to do the scientific method backward. It was fun. Everyone in the class was a believer. Because of me, and my pointing out the problems in literally EVERYTHING we studied, the teacher found me to be a valuable tool to use to teach the scientific method and how conspiracy theorists and how these "researchers" don't do their studies properly. I always harped on the point that you can't do the scientific method backward. I taught the class about bias and how you can't have any when doing research. It was such a fun class. I had almost forgotten about it. This was back sometime between 1986 or 88'.

[@mephosto]

a mummy/bigfoot? IT'S THE YET-TAY!!! SOMEONE TELL HULK HOGAN HE'S GOING TO GET AGGRESSIVELY HUMPED! DAMN YOU TASKMASTER!

[@jasonscarborough94]

Alternate title, "The Legend of Boggy Creek 1.5: Dr Lockhart's Grad School years"

[@paultapner2769]

The moment you said 'but now...' you tube went to advert. That was prescient.

[@julietfischer5056]

This movie is built around a nugget titled _Teenagers Battle the Thing,_ which is currently on TubiTV and available at the Internet Archive.

[@robotrix]

In the classroom part, one of the students is played by "Debbie" from Manos The Hands of Fate - Jackey Neyman Jones. I think the blonde in the black outfit but not sure.

[@BGNOLA]

You beat me to it; she had a hell of a filmography.

[@robotrix]

@@BGNOLA It's very interesting. Now she does Paint Along shows on The Mads Are Back's zoom and sells paintings on their website. And now she has a show called The Manos Chronicles. I haven't watched it yet. I've met her. She's a sweet lady.

[@geraldmartin7703]

I wss a dinosaurs obsessed kid when I saw The Lost World (1960) in a packed movie theater. When Professor Challenger (Claude Rains) excitedly proclaimed an overgrown iguana a "brontosaurus" I was horrified and sullen the rest of the movie as he misidentified one dinosaur after another.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

So there were no real dinosaurs in the movie? Probubly due to a lack of budget is my guess.

[@Prohass]

Thank you for coming to my classroom and yelling at kids

[@1kylecurry]

Hey give them credit for a paper mache bigfoot / monster. Young devoted horror fans. Some of the music is from "The Blob" from 1958.

[@thrashpondopons8348]

Eegah Meets Teenage Caveman!?!

[@mgrzx3367]

This movie would have been 100% better if John Carradine had just ordered a beer.

[@annnichols3091]

When you said we'd meet more interesting characters, I could practically hear the quotation marks around "interresting".

[@markditoro8836]

Unusually, for a fifties-era monster flick, neither of the scientists in the flashback footage declare that the monster should be studied and not killed.

[@ginabeena6757]

Wonderful! I could listen to the melodious sound of your sarcasm all day! ❤️😁

[@timmadone8930]

You forgot to mention that actor Bill Simonsen (Dr. Wyman) reprises his role from the 1958 movie. At 0:50 we get an early sketch of Trico from "The Last Guardian". XD

[@ShaneKixmiller]

Can’t wait to check that book out!

[@MorristheMinor]

Erm, is it me or did the 'guest speaker' look a lot like the British actor, John Woodnutt? When he was in 1970s Doctor Who?

[@anthonymunn8633]

Damn,you're right!You almost expect him to turn into a Zygon!

[@MorristheMinor]

@@anthonymunn8633 Or help the Nestenes build the Autons.

[@smason22]

And the guy driving the pickup truck ("John") looks a lot like the magician Doug Henning.

[@NGMonocrom]

When in doubt, _stick it in!_

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

Early appearance of Leatherface?

[@janetcraft]

It certainly looked like it :)

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

They borrowed music from the original 1958 THE BLOB! We're definitely in trouble here.

[@guillaumebabey4484]

T' is an internet rule that every B movie channel will eventually tackle an old Cinema Snob episode topic! That Curse of Bigfoot is such an incredibly inane example of "2 in 1", with the classroom segment having the rethoric integrity of a fundamentalist creationist group!! High time Dark Corners covered it!!

[@christinaflibotte6446]

I KNEW I recognized this movie!

[@ViaFerrataCH]

Great paw shots 😂

[@dbsommers1]

Saw this on rifftrax. Even they couldn't make it palatable.

[@robertkeefer1552]

Another Academy Award candidate!!!

[@ferociousgumby]

You can see the zipper in that costume.

[@kaykutcher2103]

Well, it isn't called curse of the naked Bigfoot.

[@MadisonCarter]

I remember buying this on VHS when the original Teenagers Battle The Thing version was released. I'm still a bit confused on things with it - the TBTT vhs was in black & white (and tried to say Ed Wood had a role in the filmmaking, which was a lie). However, as you show here, that footage was shot in color originally. Which leads me to believe the 1958 date MIGHT be inaccurate and it was actually shot in the early '60s; what kids in 1958 had access to color film? Even the major studios were still on black & white for the majority of their productions at the time.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

actually the 1st commercially produced color film came out at the turn of the 20th century so not too surprising

[@MadisonCarter]

@@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301 I'm very aware of that, hence why I said "The majority of their productions." Go look at all the monster movies made in 1958 by actual studios. 98% of them are in B&W. But thanks, Actually Guy.

[@tmrezzek5728]

Egads! The 'expert guest speaker' looks like he came straight from Monty Python's gas cooker sketch...and THAT'S why Bigfoot was burned, or 'cooked,' at the end. Thank you for indulging my conspiracy theory.

[@markditoro8836]

Shall we expect a streaming review of Sasquatch Sunset?

[@noahbody9747]

There is a little known sequel called 'The Curse of Bigfoot's Toe Fungus'. Really nasty.

[@georgecoventry8441]

Brilliant! Those were the days of truly convincing monster films, right? 😄

[@Horrorgang]

Thank you for brining this movie to more viewers. I reviewed this film a couple of years ago and it is honestly one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Great video!

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Yeah, that doesn't look too good. Certainly nowhere as awesome as a rock.

[@geraldmartin7703]

The giant killer rabbits in Night of the Lepus (1972) were, well, rabbits.

[@DarkCornersReviews]

One of our first reviews. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5eXZGOGjtSfa80

[@martinradcliffe4798]

I believe I started to watch this once...

[@mikehunt4986]

And couldn't finish lol

[@martinradcliffe4798]

@@mikehunt4986 Didn't get close!

[@raymondtillotson6985]

I sit among a summers day and contemplate the flowers. My massive feet get in the way and so it takes me hours. It is a joy no human knows, a Sasquatch only story, When one can peer around one's toes at nature in its glory.

[@warspawnedpainting4380]

My theory is that movies like this are proof aliens exist and they, for some reason, just want to make movies.

[@tommydarbe1524]

I don't know about aliens, but bad actors certainly do.😅

[@geraldmartin7703]

Or to make us even more stupid.

[@DamnedSilly]

I'd guess vampires have gotten the widest array of looks, powers, weaknesses, origins and so on. You could watch a hundred different movies and not find two that match. Without using the word you might not even know they were supposed to be the same thing.

[@skylx0812]

The t-rex in The Last Dinosaur didn't look like t-rex.

[@peterbailey6930]

Oh the pain......

[@antoinettegreen5344]

How Mummy Bigfoot not kill the Sheriff is amazing!! Best Bigfoot movies are Creature From Black Lake and Snow Beast!! Good review Thanks

[@earlleeruhf3130]

I wonder if Horatio suffered from a small pholosphfie, Polosfaty, err, lack of Imagination.

[@Mat3840]

Love this flick despite it being bad. One of my childhood faves. Originally entitled Teenagers Battle the Thing.

[@sartanawillpay7977]

Even though I was a kid with a love for monster movies and interest in Sasquatches I could not make it through this movie when it played on "Science Fiction Theatre" back in the 70s.

[@TheMadAfrican1]

Actually, the idea of a Bigfoot Mummy is a pretty good one! I might use that for a book. Also, you have to admire the kids making a film in those days. So what if it was terrible? There's still a lot to like there.

[@randallmcilwaine2191]

I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie - well, the field trip section - under the title "Teenagers Battle the Thing."

[@Nerval-kg9sm]

The acting, especially in the classrooms scenes, is so bad, I don't understand how it can't be intentional.

[@kaykutcher2103]

The expert talks in 0.5 speed.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

Thanks. Side note: the wacky narrator insists several of the characters are insane because of the experience, but at the end they just stand there, like, "....huh.". 😂

[@richardkohlbrenner1773]

It was strange for me that the students paid attention 😮

[@erikthewriter]

This is what happens when you’re assaulted by a Big Foot five minutes before you’re supposed to teach a class

[@itowmyhome797]

Thank you

[@JamesMMcCann]

I honestly thought, "For Ffffffive minutes" was going to go a different way :)

[@MadJens0]

Orange pop? How old are these students? 12?

[@markiangooley]

Rocks are cheaper to put in movies than rocs…

[@CarlSmith-p2c]

So this movie ISN'T part of "The Legend of Boggy Creek" series?

[@scottcleaves1040]

Yes it's bad but I still enjoy watching this, It's just like a Larry Buchanan movie

[@louismendoza-y9l]

This movie is hard to find with the classroom opening from 1975, I was starting to think I imagined it. Anyway, Japan has their own version of Frankenstein he's as big as Godzilla, and I think Germany gave the monster to them during WW2. Frankenstein VS Baragon.

[@JohnSmith-x8s5g]

High school kids in the 70s man, they had no respect.

[@patrickmoreau7592]

Revenge of the Mud Mummy 😂😂

[@moralescarlitos]

For the love of Pete, another murderous beast?

[@MeatRust]

Did this film inspire or at least heavily influence 'Night of the Demon'? Surprising if that's not the case

[@jasonsantos3037]

Interesting for a Bigfoot movie.

[@PeterApologetics]

Looks like to different movies, one in the 60s (short haircut) and the classroom kids the 70s (long shaggy hair).

[@davidchurch5932]

I was waiting for the phrase "demented archeologist", but it never came. I'm so disappointed.

[@RobinJohnstonphotography]

I haven’t seen all the things that don’t exist.

[@tuckerbowen4626]

oh dear god, i've seen this movie. words simply cannot properly express just how slowly it moves. to answer your question, the movie "To Catch A Yeti" has a yeti that's a very small creature with disproportionately large feet, which the film establishes (repeatedly) is what gives people the idea that they're so large.

[@thriddoctor]

Just about every film and tv show confuses wyverns with dragons. Wyverns= two legs two wings. Dragons = four legs two wings and MUCH bigger.

[@andrewyoung2796]

Well........ The significance of the tongue......

[@douglasw.7864]

I remember seeing this on UHF back in 1975. Truly awful but hilarious too!

[@BGNOLA]

I remember it on the "bad movie night" on the local PBS station

[@euansmith3699]

"Mummy/Bigfoot" is Robin striking out into saucy cryptid fan-fic?

[@tommydarbe1524]

Definatly a candidate for MST3K😅

[@starmanfaned]

RiffTraxs did this movie

[@ianmcnulty799]

Monsters not looking as they should: Dario Argento's Dracula 3-D allows the the Count to take the form of a giant Mantis

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

Bram Stoker's Dracula(which by the way was by bar the least like the book) with him looking like a beehive head wtf?? lol)

[@bostonrailfan2427]

i can give the original film a pass as it’s not that bad when put in context: no-budget student film, but tried harder than should have and made it work for them. but the rework with the additional material? it ruined it…the original was lost in the boredom and bloat of the additional fliff

[@normandrichardson3721]

The werewolf in The Beast Must Die, it's just a dog !!!

[@geraldmartin7703]

Like in The Killer Shrews (1959).

[@alfredkholi9537]

teenage vampire films

[@franzferdinand2]

It's not looks, but I do often think about how much the werewolves in The Howling II: My Sister is a Werewolf were clearly supposed to be vampires.

[@stevengabbard930]

Do what???? Howling furry vampires maybe? I don't think you're right about this one. It does take place in Transylvania and Philippe Mora may have adopted a script originally about vampires. I've never heard that but Mora is a hack and it wouldn't surprise me. But I am pretty confident that it was intended as a werewolf film as soon as it started filming.

[@raulcruz716]

Is it just me or is this just too similar to the Americanized HALF HUMAN? Both films use preexisting footage and add extra footage of an expert recounting an encounter a small group of people has with a Sasquatch or Yeti creature.

[@ashleys9397]

I've seen HALF HUMAN---and yes, there's a passing similarity.

[@lidoeg2]

if I had a nickle for every time someone insisted on calling a mummy a bigfoot/yeti I'd have 2 nickels which doesn't sound like a lot but it's weird that it happened twice, thanks WCW

[@l.a.gothro3999]

OH. I thought this was about Bigfoot's first menstruation.

[@ashleys9397]

Oooh GROOOOOOOOSS!! Oooh! Oooh!

[@christophercarlson8691]

If by time you mean recreational substances consumed by adults, still no.

[@drudown76]

I cant finish it. It's too bad