WILLOW CREEK

WILLOW CREEK (2013)

Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait

Starring Bryce Johnson and Alexie Gilmore

Not rated

Netflix got around to sending me Bobcat Goldthwait's WILLOW CREEK.

On the plus side, it was made loads better than BIGFOOT WARS.

On the minus side...it follows the 'found footage' formula to the letter. Lots of setup. Some tension. Some panic. End credits.

And remember how the preview and poster for QUARANTINE (the 2008 US-made remake of REC) ended up showing the final scene of the film?

Don't watch the preview for WILLOW CREEK. Or if you do, cut it off when the title comes up on screen. 

Or watch the whole thing and see a nice, condensed version of the film in two minutes and save yourself the other seventy-five minutes.

Man, that makes it sound like the whole thing sucks. It's really not that bad, it's just nothing particularly special and I had some hopes for this one.

It comes down to weighing how you feel about bigfoot movies versus how you feel about found footage films. I'm about sick to death of found footage films but I keep watching them. They keep coming up with ideas I'm interested in, but without fail they pretty much end right when they get interesting and leave me annoyed more than anything else.