BIGFOOT (2012)

Streaming on Tubi!
Directed/Written by Bruce Davison.
Check out the trailer here!!

Agh, you know. All right. I’m going to be kind of kind to this film and say that I did walk away from it having a bit of fun. That is not saying this Asylum film isn’t a stinker, but it rolls around in that stink proudly, so I have to admire it for that.

Danny Bonaduce takes time away from his permanent gig on I LOVE THE 80’s to star as a shock jock setting up a big concert which boasts everyone from Devo to Sting, but because of a winter storm (and because they had the good sense to stay out of this movie) only Alice Cooper shows up. But someone else crashes the party. And that’s…

Barry Williams, aka Greg Brady, playing a dedicated and hammy tree hugger who is against Bonaduce chopping down trees for his outdoor concert. But someone else crashes the party…and that is…

Sherilyn “TWIN PEAKS” Fenn and Bruce “WILLARD” Davison (who wrote and directed this film as well) as a pair of police officers conflicted between siding with Bonaduce who is an ass, but on the right side of the law, and Williams who has good intentions, but he’s a smelly hippie. But someone else crashes the party…and that is…

Howard Hesseman, who looks quite dour to be out in the cold throughout this film and definitely needs his Dr. Johnny Fever shades to cover the lack of enthusiasm he has toward his agent for booking him this role as the mayor of the town. But someone else crashes the party…

Who could it be?

Oh yeah!

It’s a fifty-foot-tall Bigfoot!

That’s right Bigfoot has been elusive all these years because he’s a 50-foot-tall giant ape! Though it makes for some fun scenes of monkey rampaging, this film feels more like a KING KONG movie than a Bigfoot film. Here, for no reason than disliking loud noises, Bigfoot overturns rowboats, helicopters, ATV’s, and stomps on people waiting in line for the Port-a-potty. Plus, he likes to bite people’s heads off like they were grenades in a giant monkey guerrilla war!

Nothing in this film can be taken seriously. Most of the overqualified supporting cast seem downright pissed to be in it, while Bonaduce and Williams do a decent job of carrying the film, surprisingly. Cut rate CGI doesn’t help things, as the beast is blurry and stiff most of the time, but Bonaduce and the script are balls out in this one which climaxes with Bigfoot climbing Mount Rushmore and a helicopter blowing Lincoln’s face off!

For it’s infectiously fun, no fucks given attitude, I give BIGFOOT 2012 Two Feets and One Toe and that’s being extremely kind.

So bad it needs to be watched, BIGFOOT can be found in garage sales and dollar bins across the country—also on Tubi, of course. Nevertheless, it’s got that infectiously hammy, all-fading star-filled SHARKNADO vibe going for it.