Night of the Demon (1980)

What we have here is a mega-budgeted film, with a line of top notch actors and superb state of the art f/x. Well, not really. And whom may I ask, need's that stuff anyway? What we really have here is a film with no budget, bad actors, and I mean that as in B-A-D, and really cruddy f/x. But let me ask you, fellow lover of the sick and sleazy, does this really equal a bad film? Your Rabid host says no indeed, and I can honestly say I had a hell of a good time with this one.

Story deals with a group of anthropology students trekking into the wilderness to investigate sighting's of a Bigfoot, who apparently is to blame for several murders in the area. All the murders are told in flashback style, which sort of annoyed me. These flashbacks are typically told by the group's professor, as they are sitting around the campfire and such. "The body was found not to far from here", would begin the professor, then cut to a scene of our cranky Sasquatch ripping off a guy's dick as he pisses in the woods, then after the story is told he exclaims, "We have a big day tomorrow guys, let's get some sleep!" Purely genius dialogue. Our beast is pretty inventive when it comes to dispatching pesky humans, we get the previously mentioned penis ripping, impalement by sticks and pitchforks, axe attack by yeti, neck rippings, and not to mention the poor guy who has his own innards's ripped out by the creature and then has them swung around the room like a whip! The monster, when you get a good look at it, is nothing more than a really bad wookie suit, and sort of reminded me of the sidekick to Thundar in that old "Thundar the Barbarian" cartoon that used to be on Saturday mornings. I kept thinking how cool it would be if they remade this movie with Jennifer Lopez, the cast of "Dawson's Creek" and "Friends" stuck in the woods with the monster. Now that, my friends, would be awesome.