BIGFOOT WARS

BIGFOOT WARS

Directed by Brian T. Jaynes

Written by Andrea Doss, Frederic Doss, and Jacob Mauldin

Based on the books by Eric S. Brown

Starring Holt Boggs and C. Thomas Howell

Not rated

So I had nothing else going on the other night and decided to rent BIGFOOT WARS (after seeing that Netflix could send me WILLOW CREEK on disc).

Bad decision.

Aside from kinda-okay-looking-in-a-70s-movie-style sasquatches and C. Thomas Howell chewing scenery as a pot smoking hillbilly survivalist  there's pretty much nothing to recommend this film. (Judd Nelson got roped into it too, somehow.) Okay, there's some decent gore, too, I guess.

If you must see this one, at least try to catch it for free so you only lose five hours of your time. (No, the movie isn't five hours long. IMDb claims it's only 75 minutes. It just seems *much* longer.)

Looking around, I've seen where C. Thomas Howell and one or two others involved in the movie took to Twitter to basically apologize for how it turned out. And Howell has been in Asylum movies, so....

The movie is supposed to be based on a series of novels by Eric S. Brown. I've yet to read any of Brown's original work, so I don't have any idea how close it may have gotten.

The director, Brian T. Jaynes, also directed 2010's BOGGY CREEK, which kinda covered the same territory (and for which Brown wrote the novelization). They could easily be connected. It's also a little bit better.