Sasquatch (2003)

After hearing of his daughter's plane crashing in the Pacific Northwest, rich tycoon Harlan Knowles (Lance Henriksen) gathers a search party of various disposable characters to track down the plane and with it any possible survivors. Once they stumble onto the wreck site, they find the plane has been mysteriously "moved" from its original crash site, and a discovered camcorder reveals the passengers to have been stalked and killed by some unknown creature lurking in the woods. There's your "plot" in a nutshell if you will. You know, there really aren't to many "killer Bigfoot" flicks around, the only other one I can think of is 1980's classic low budget romp Night of the Demon, which is still "the" quintessential killer yeti flick in my mind. The yeti is one creature the horror genre has failed to capitalize on, so I sorta had high hopes for this one for whatever reason. Boy was I to be disappointed.

Sasquatch fails on so many levels it's not even funny. There is zero level of suspense, you want all of the actors to die, and worst of all, there's only two Bigfoot attacks in the entire flick! What the hell is up with that? And, of course, what kills we do get are relatively boring and bloodless, gee...what a surprise. You would think when making a film lacking in suspense and decent characters you could at least throw in some decent yeti mayhem dammit. Besides the annoying actors and lame ass yeti kills, the filmmakers constantly used this extremely aggravating fade in/fade out technique, while employing various methods of slow motion at the same time. It served no purpose other than to distract the viewer and break up any type of flow the film had going for it, which was essentially none.

In the acting department, genre vet Lance Henriksen looks completely bored and dazed throughout the whole process, I'm sure he just wanted to collect his check and be on his merry way. Everyone else is your classic stereotypical character that does the stereotypically stupid things. We get a slutty chick, a tech nerd, a drunken scout, and so on. And even though practically everyone gets a glimpse of the title beast at one time or another, whenever they are inquired as to what they saw they always reply, "it was nothing, just forget it". C'mon, you just saw the fucking yeti for chrissakes...admit it! Sigh. As for the creature itself, the brief glimpses we get of it are decent, but when the creature is revealed in full at the end it is sort of a let down, as is the climatic final battle between Henriksen and said yeti. Skip this one for sure, though if you want to see a true killer yeti movie then track down the above mentioned Night of the Demon. That's one wookie that don't fuck around my friends.