Saturday, March 31, 2012

Bigfoot: The Mysterious Monster (1976)


Schick Sun Classic Pictures
Directed by Robert Guenette
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)

Peter Graves hosts this pseudo-documentary on the seventies pop-culture phenomenon Bigfoot. It's a series of dramatizations featuring a man-in-a-gorilla-suit, based on eyewitness accounts. It includes the famous Patterson footage of a supposed Bigfoot walking near a river bluff, since debunked as a hoax. Scientific proof that Bigfoot exists presented in the film includes a demonstration by a psychic, hypnotizing an eyewitness who relives her close encounter, a lie detector test of an Indian, and testimony by many expert scientists about foot size, hair type and the like. The one thing I learned by watching this movie: Bigfoot smells really, really bad.

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