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Erin is on
her way to a new life when she gets taken
hostage by a couple of criminals who have just robbed
a bank. They seek shelter in the deep woods, but what
was supposed to keep them safe, has now become a deadly
trap as they find themselves hunted by a giant, hairy
beast (no, not Lance Henriksen, a sasquatch!).
Oh come on! Another killer sasquatch movie!? Seriously?
Haven't we sat through enough of these all ready? Well,
someone (except for me) must be watching them since
the Sci-fi channel keeps on making them. Lance Henriksen
gets stuck in yet another bland bigfoot feature (apparently,
Abominable and Sasquatch aka The Untold weren't enough),
and this time he gets to play a loony cop who, together
with some other fairly incompetent cops, are on the
hunt for some dangerous bank robbers who have taken a
young woman hostage. What they don't know is that the
robbers are being stalked by a giant, man-eating sasquatch
(didn't see that one coming, great twist).
The concept is old and most of us are sick to death of
these cheap made-for-TV sasquatch movies. The story
is unoriginal and is more or less a direct copy of
director Steven R. Monroe's previous movie, It Waits,
which also had the beautiful Cerina Vincent get
terrorized by a bigfoot-looking creature. To be fair
though, Steven is a good director and Sasquatch Mountain
doesn't look quite as cheap and cheesy as most of the
rest of them (though this one doesn't even come near
the much more entertaining sasquatch-flick, Abominable).
Sasquatch Mountain is in fact overall a pretty watchable
movie. But what annoyed me was the fact that it began
to tell so many sub-stories which it never followed
through with. For example; we know that Erin (Cerina)
is trying to start a new life - but we have no reason
why (her taking off an engagement ring in the ending
hardly classified as a legit explanation). This caused
the movie to feel sloppily written and led me to believe
that some things were made up while shooting. Perhaps
this could be the reason to why some scenes felt so
out of place.
In its entirety, Sasquatch Mountain is an underwhelming
experience to say the least, but it is still watchable.
It's definitely not the worst Sasquatch movie out there
but I really hope that it's the last one - at least
for a while. You know the drill, if this kind of thing
intrigues you, you'll probably end up enjoying it, but
I'm not a believer of bigfoot so for me, it's all fiction.
I saw the TV-version, don't know if it was cut or not,
either way, no gore was in sight.
Nothing worth commenting on really, average at best.
Underwhelming and unoriginal killer-sasquatch flick
which doesn't stray far away from Steven R. Monroe's
previous horror flick, "It Waits". If you enjoyed that
one, you'll probably enjoy this one as well (even if
this isn't just quite as good). Needless to say, this
was a movie that only sasquatch-lovers could enjoy.
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