THE 3RD HALL OF INFAMY: Infamy Rises Again

I'm guessing the first half hour was put in to pad out the length since they felt 60 minutes for the main plot line wouldn't be enough for a feature length film. Maybe the pacing of the remaining 60 minutes will be lean? Probably not, but who knows?

Pretty sure there are mythology classes.

Nothing like that at my school.

Anyways, yeah, pretty tension-free and joyless film so far.

There's gotta be mythology classes somewhere. I doubt it's just something they throw in shows like Jake Long.

There may be. I'm not sure that's what the film was going for though.

THE CURSE OF BIGFOOT

So I was an enthusiastic participant in the 70s bigfoot craze. Watched everything I could find, had the Bionic Sasquatch action figure, etc. and as I got older I retained a fondness for this stuff even though I recognize that it's all nonsense. So it was a great day in the early 90s when I found the VHS pictured above in the $5 bin at a local store. A vintage Bigfoot film I'd never seen before? A miracle!

Now imagine my dismay when I get to the 30 minute mark and, having seen precisely 15 seconds of Squatch action ("action" doesn't seem like the right word), our film shifts to what is CLEARLY a couple of decades pre-1975 and is therefore not likely to be about, you know, Bigfoot. Instead what followed is a full hour of brain-melting drudgery that fails at whatever kind of horror movie it's SUPPOSED to be, even after conceding that this is not going to be a Bigfoot film.

Earlier in the thread I lamented that my nomination wasn't "fun". Robot Monster is an hour+ of entertaining cheese, but this is just an hour of people existing while a camera is pointed at them. Sometimes they say stuff you don't care about. Other times they walk from point A to point B. Sometimes there is no one on screen and you're just looking at trees. As Tak has already said, there's nothing to even mock. (Although I do find it amusing that kids who've volunteered for an archeology field trip seem to know so little about archeology. "What's a petroglyph?" asks one student who must have skipped a few homework assignments.) The acting is weak, the monster is wretched.

Truth be told, I find the 70s classroom footage funny just because it's so cheesy and because the guest speaker is SO intense. I feel like the teacher should've pulled the plug on this presentation after the clearly-disturbed professor's first act was to verbally berate the soft-spoken stoner kid. Seems like a red flag.

So yeah. I wish the movie was funnier. Sorry you all wasted 1.5 hours on this. If it's any consolation this is like my 10th time watching at least parts of it. Hey, when it's 1991 and you only own 15 VHS tapes your choices are limited.

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Knowing this movie, it was easily an unauthorized lecture in a science class.

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There were only like three parts that I found so-bad-it's-funny:

1) The part where the professor introduces himself to the class by screaming something like "Oh, a demented man, eh?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

2) Some of the terrible day-for-night.

3) The general ignorance of the high school students. "Prayer sticks?!?!?!"

Also, I thought that the class was meant to be a college class about monsters. (And a class about different cultures and their monsters sounds great!). That said, my high school had some very interesting special topic classes, my favorite of which was a class on the evolution of battle strategies in which we learned about pincer maneuvers and read Sun Tzu, and we were regaled with stories of our teacher's time serving in the Vietnam War.

Thought I'd add that I wasted one of my Hoopla borrows on Curse of Bigfoot, even though it's available on like ten streaming sites. So that's another L for me.

I’m finding this unbelievably boring. This being the movie, not your reviews.

The more posts I read here, before watching this Bigfoot movie, the more scared and worried I get about having to watch it. Here goes...please let this not be too painful...

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Okay, that was way, way worse than I thought it was going to be - and I thought it was going to be pretty bad.

As a big fan of the Bigfoot legend, I'm looking forward to this one. Hopefully, I'll have time to watch it and write something about it in the next few days. I'll try not to drag the pace of this enterprise down.

I saw a neighbor wearing a Bigfoot t-shirt yesterday. I complimented him on it and told him about this Hall of Infamy. He actually owns a copy of The Curse of Bigfoot. He said it was a terrible movie. So random, as the kids used to say.

It's the Bigfoot movie even Bigfoot lovers can't endorse.

I still thing Robert F. Slatzer's Bigfoot movie is worse.

That one is terrible but at least has the decency to actually be ABOUT Bigfoot

My argument is that the scenes involving science at least tried to have decent conversation for the sake of development, at least until it was all betrayed by the monster's appearance. And this movie had a slight bit of so-bad-it's-good charm.