Strange Nature (2018)
For the last twenty years, thousands of deformed frogs have been popping up in Minnesota ponds with some populations having over 70% of their number mutated. After years of testing, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency came up with plenty of theories for the cause but nothing definite and in 2001, the U.S. Government pulled all further […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper (2014)
I want you to look at that awesome box art. I want you to imagine just how insane a pairing of legendary hijacker D.B. Cooper and Bigfoot could be. I want you to notice Linnea Quigley and Eric Roberts names above the credits. And then, when you realize that David DeCoteau directed it, you’ll realize […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975)
Let’s step away from Bigfoot to speak on werewolves. Specifically, a werewolf named Count Waldemar Daninsky. Over twelve movies, his origins have changed as many times as his films have alternate titles. Here, in the eighth film in the series (also known as The Curse of the Beast, Night of the Howling Beast and Hall of the Mountain King), […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: Bigfoot: The Movie (2015)
A lot of this review won’t make sense if you aren’t from Western Pennsylvania. Becca was born near Detroit, so she doesn’t always get a lot of Pittsburgh. There’s the yinzer accent. The strange customs. And when we were in line at Kennywood to ride the Thunderbolt the other night, she didn’t get the palpable […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Cry Wilderness comes from that most painful of all movie genres — the earnest family-friendly film with a message. This is the kind of movie that your church youth group would show on a Saturday afternoon after some lessons on Jesus. But see, I grew up Catholic, so my Saturday afternoons were spent watching Hammer […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
The Legend of Boggy Creek is my favorite kind of movie. It’s at once a narrative story and a documentary so that there will be times that you have no idea whether you’re learning the unvarnished truth or being spun a tale. It’s kind of like that movie in Orson Welles’ F for Fake where he tells you […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: An interview with The Weirdest Movie Ever Made author Phil Hall
Yesterday, we reviewed The Weirdest Movie Ever Made, Phil Hall book that traces the convoluted history of how the Patterson and Gimlin film was created and impacted the scientific community and popular culture. We had the opportunity to talk to Phil about the inspiration behind the book, a lost Bigfoot film and some thoughts on some of […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: The Mysterious Monsters (1975)
At the start of this movie, Peter Graves looks right at the camera and totally bullshits you: “Scientists representing the world’s most foremost research centers took part in the examination of the evidence. The facts that will be presented are true. This may be the most startling film you’ll ever see.” Get ready for another piece […]
BIGFOOT WEEK: Phil Hall’s The Weirdest Movie Ever Made reviewed
On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin emerged from a North California forest with a little less than one minute of silent, grainy and shaky 16mm footage that they claimed offered irrefutable proof of the existence of Sasquatch. Neither man had any previous experience in filmmaking or zoology, yet presented their remarkable footage […]
MARK GREGORY WEEK: War Bus Commando (1989)
When I was a very young child, my grandfather would come home from working night shift at the J&L Steel Mill and sit in front of the TV drinking Pabst and watching war movies. The entire house would be bathed in blue light and the sounds of machine gun fire. Forty some years later and […]
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