A quartet of anthropology students follow their enthusiastic professor, Dr. Prell, into the wilderness in search of bigfoot. What they find is certainly an abomination of nature, but of the cannibalistic cult, not anthropoid ape, variety.
After a solid start—highlighted by an extensive, rage-filled monologue by an alcoholic former student of Dr. Prell’s, and his subsequent grisly death by toaster—the film (mistakenly touted as an inept-cinema classic) slips into a dull routine of overwrought dialogue and stilted deliveries. Although there are a few fatal forays into the woods, the inexplicable shifts in tone, colorful characters, and illogical narrative progressions that make low-budget horror so fun are largely absent. If the filmmakers believed that their cannibal cult plot twist was unique enough, and shocking enough, to overshadow the tedium of what comes before it, they were wrong.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: RetroMedia Entertainment DVD
30 Mar 2008 7:46 PM | Submit Comment