The Bigfoot trap is located in the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon. It was built by the North American Wildlife Research Team (NAWRT) and in six years, all it caught was bears. Today, the trap has been fixed and is maintained by the United States Forest Service as a tourist attraction. It’s a wooden box — ten feet by ten feet — made of planks that are bound together with metal and secured by telephone poles.

Josh MacMahon (Tyler Weisenauer) makes a video for the new site he’s working on where he makes light of flat earth conspiracy theorists. He goes viral and now he has to go after every other weird theory. His next target is Red Wilson (Zach Lazar Hoffman) and the Southern Sasquatch Research Foundation. It has one other member, Kyle (Andy Kanies).

Things don’t go as well.

Red knows Josh’s plan of making him look like a moron all while the would-be serious journalist is morally conflicted about doing exactly that. And then Josh accidentally shoots Kyle and ends up in, well, the Bigfoot trap.

Director and writer Aaron Mirtes (American Hunt, The Alpha Test) plays with your feelings — if you have negative Squatcher feelings, but not me, I’m a believer, I saw that one in a cooler outside a K-Mart when I was little — and makes you consider whose side you’re on before all that drama turns into the actual scares. It’s not perfect, but there are some great moments of character in this.

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