72: The Untold Story of Sasquatch

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Yeah, the samurai. I don't even know. I don't think samurai even make that noise. I don't think so. I'm not sure what that was.

That was a Bigfoot mating call. Oh, you better watch it. Yes. I hear they like to do that based on today's movie. We'll get to that in a little bit.

Yes, we will. So, just to sort of follow our usual rundown, we usually kick it off with the geek activities of what we've been doing this past week. So, this week, pretty much all I've been doing is moving. Exhausting moving. Moving.

Oh, Lord. That's pretty much all I've done. It's kind of scary. That just sucks. Yeah, yeah.

To tie it into the show, Misty, trooper that she is, did help me haul a good portion of my furniture into the new place. Nice, nice. She's a trooper, man. She can haul stuff like you wouldn't believe. She is quite the heavy lifter, if need be, under the right circumstances.

Yeah, I finally got to meet her this last Horror Hound, so that was pretty neat. She's quite entertaining, isn't she? Yes, she is. The only other thing I thought was kind of funny was as I'm bringing all my weird stuff into the new place, I'm thinking as I'm hauling it in, I'm assuming there's neighbors around. I'm wondering if they're looking out the window and seeing what I'm hauling in.

Because I'm bringing in the weirdest assortment of stuff. I'm like, what is it they must think of this odd collection of things I'm hauling into this place? They look out the window and I'm hauling full-size theater seats in. Mannequins? Yeah, there was a human torso and then there was a film reel with a bull rip wrapped around it several times.

That was my favorite. I think those two were together. As they look out and see this conglomeration of weird shit, I'm just like, what they must think of me. Yes. Yes, there's probably a lot of neighborhood chatter going on right now.

See the new guy? What the hell's wrong with that guy? So that's pretty much all you've been up to? That's pretty much it. Yeah, I haven't really stopped much else.

I think I've occasionally turned things on and then just collapsed and fallen asleep. So I don't think I've watched anything other than our wonderful movie this week. Yeah, more on that later. Oh yeah yeah but other than that i've i'm piecing it together now the tv is here so the the sofa theater as it were is not quite together yet nor will it ever fully be the way i'm going at this rate but eventually hopefully somewhere down the line but at least probably functional to be able to watch something in the next week or so but um yeah just transporting geeky collectibles that's pretty much all i've done. Yeah, that's understandable.

Pretty much on my side, the only thing I can really mention is that, because I don't really want to mention the movies I've watched. Yeah, I don't want to steal anything away from Will. I don't want to steal the thunder from the GGTMC there, but I will say that I have been, I'm completely caught up on Spartacus, Blood and Sand, the TV show. I've heard good things. Well, the thing is, if you ever sit down and watch this, And it's on Netflix instant, by the way.

So the whole series is on that. I think it's up to 11 episodes right now. I think it's 12 episodes for the whole season. So I think next week or this week will be the season finale, quote unquote. But the first two episodes I watched, I was like, this is the most homoerotic and stupid TV show I've ever seen before in my life.

I was laughing at it more than I was getting into it. But then something happened in episode three, which I can't talk about here. But something happened and it totally hooked me, man. And now I'm like totally hooked on this show. That is just absolutely ridiculous.

It's the most hyper-violent, gory, sexual show you've ever seen. I mean, everybody's running around saying, Jupiter's cock! See, that's what I've heard. I've heard it's one of those, like, you've got to ride it out a little. You'll think the first episode's terrible, but give it a little time.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I've heard about it. You'll think the first two episodes are terrible, because they really are. And it takes off on the 300 motif a little bit. It's very computer graphic and oriented. The violence is very much CGI blood and stuff, so you've got to get past that.

But really, come Episode 3, when he really starts his gladiator training, that's when things really change. The first two episodes are set up, and they're not really very good at all. But Episode 3... I'd heard of it a while back, I think way before most people had, because it was... I'm pretty sure at least some of the people, when I did the interview with the people from Bitch Slap, and I think it's a lot of that same crew that ended up going on to do this show.

I'm pretty sure Aaron Cummings has some sort of part in it, and then it might be the directors the same, or he's producing it, or something like that, but I know it's part of that same crew that put that together, and that's kind of what makes me want to watch it, because that seems like a fun group of people. Yeah, it's a fun show, and I got caught up on it tonight, and I'm I can't wait for the last episode and check that out. So that's pretty much, really, that's pretty much all I've been doing is just watching that and back in school. So I guess that is quote-unquote a geek activity. That's more of a nerd activity.

Yeah, it's more of a shitty activity. Well, that goes without saying. And then, of course, the other weekend before I was at Horror Hound and got to hang out with you again for a little bit and all the good friends we have. So that was pretty nice. Yeah once again i i think i decided it was kind of sad that i think i've hung out with you more outside of our general area than i have where we live if.

If you're in kentucky we're not going to hang out with each other but if you're in indiana or ohio there's a good chance we're going to. Be hanging out uh that's very strange our relationship yes it is very odd oh man but yeah if that if that rounds out the geek week um I guess we will take a quick break and be back with the movie of the week here. Sounds good. We will be right back. Let's all go.

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Oh my God. Gerald said when he first laid eyes on the hatchet-throwing sasswatch who lived next door. Oh my God, Freaky said the second time when he saw a custom bear growing out from his spine. The hatchet-throwing sasswatch turned and peered with a look that wild animals knew and feared. And they feared they had.

To throw a Sasquatch. All right, we are back. It's time for Tales from the 50s. This week, the Bigfoot Files. Ooh.

So this week's Bigfoot Files feature is Sasquatch, or the Untold, depending on what you go by. We can go into that in a minute, too. Yeah. The year is 2002. Director Jonas Quastel.

Yeah, I guess. I guess Quastel. I don't know. Quaker? Quastel?

I don't know what to think of this guy. I guess the closest thing to a plot I could come up with off IMDb, it said, based on actual events, and I'm using air quotes right now, the... The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, a billionaire and president of Biocomp Industries, who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forest of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter, who is one of the passengers. We'll leave it at that.

Yes. I guess we'll throw out the big spoiler alert, because I'm pretty sure we're going to beat the hell out of this movie. Yes. If you don't want to know any more about the wonders of Sasquatch or the Untold, then, yeah, you better just take it under advisement. Yeah, if you don't want to be told the Untold.

I'm still not sure what the untold is. I don't really know either. They didn't tell us. That's the problem. That's probably why they call it the untold.

Yeah, even they're still trying to figure it out. Oh, wow. So this, I guess, just to get into the title confusion, this was originally known as the untold. But upon its release, it was switched to Sasquatch, which I'm assuming someone at the studio or someone on the business end of the deal did, because there's a commentary track on the DVD I have. Did you listen to this?

No, I did not. Oh, God. Basically, the director and the executive producer and a couple of the actors are sitting down to watch it, and it's like the first time they've seen the cut, basically. And when the title screen comes up, they all kind of freak out. They're like, Sasquatch?

What is that? Is that what they're calling us now? Wow. And they continue throughout the movie to kind of complain and make snide comments about it because they'll come up and it's like the first scene where whatever it is is circling them and here's our first interaction with well I guess you know it's a Sasquatch now since that's the name of the movie. Well that all makes sense now when we talk about it further.

Actually that's probably the best detail that I've heard about this film that I didn't know. Yeah, yeah, there's a few other moments that that kind of comes into play. But, yeah, I thought as to the confusion, because, yeah, if you look it up on IMDb, it's not even Sasquatch. It comes up as the Untold, and then somewhere there's an AKA. But, I mean, yeah, at first time I was, like, not even sure where it was at.

So that will, yeah, if somebody's looking for this, I'm not sure why maybe, but if you're looking for this, it's not even listed as Sasquatch first in the IMDb. Yeah, because when we were having lunch at the Horror Hound weekend there in Indy, you were talking about this Lance Hendrickson Sasquatch movie. And I was like, oh, okay, well, that's Sasquatch Mountain, I think. Yeah, which is another Lance Hendrickson of about three or four Lance Hendrickson Sasquatch movies. Yeah, so I was like, okay, yeah, I know of Sasquatch Mountain.

I've never seen it, but I know of it. I was like, yeah, I'm down with that. And you're like, I don't think it's Sasquatch Mountain, though. And I'm like, okay, so I pulled up the IMDb on the iPhone while we were sitting there, and then I saw that it was called The Untold, and we were kind of laughing about it and joking around. But now all that kind of story is kind of making sense now, so it's kind of weird.

I didn't know any of that. It is funny that, you know, they're watching their own movie and they're finding things. There were several times when they were just like, where did this shot come from? So I guess, well, yeah, go into why some of the issues came about. So what is this...

Cryptozoology? Cryptozoology. It's the science of unverified exotic animal life. You're serious about this? Look, new animal species are being discovered every day.

Most of the time it's like. Some new kind of beetle or an albino earthworm, but every once in a while they come across something big. Jesus Christ, kid. Hey, Chief. You've been living out here your entire life.

You ever seen any Oogie boogie big and hairy creatures out here. I mean, besides the local women. Do you know how many names there are for Bigfoot around the world? Let me see. In China, it's either Alma or Yarin.

In Tibet, it's Yeti or Abominable Snowman. In Australia, it's Yowie. In Brazil, Mapinguari, Skunk Ape in Florida. I got names in Vietnam and Sumatra I can't even pronounce. Same with Russia, India, but more than anywhere, right here in the Pacific Northwest, it's known as the Sasquatch.

Okay. Other than that, I guess, where do you want to begin on this thing? Well, the first thing you've got to say to yourself is, when you look at the movie, is this stars Lance Hendrickson, and who else? Lance Hendrickson? According to the box, Andrea Roth, but yeah.

Who the hell's that? I don't really know her from anything. I know Erica Durrance is in it. She's on Smallville, but she just plays the daughter of. Oh, wow.

It kind of does the Blair Witch moment. Yeah. And now I'm looking at Andrea Roth to see if I see her in anything else. She's been in a lot of other stuff. I did bring her up and not really stuff that I've paid any attention to her in, but she's got a good amount of credits.

I guess she is the next name that you would go to to slap on the box. Yep. She was in 15 episodes of the RoboCop show. There you go. She's got her geek cred right there.

That is geek cred. She was on an episode of Friday the 13th, an episode of The Hitchhiker. Ah, see? Classy stuff here. She's done some work.

Anyway, yeah, so Lance Henriksen and really who else? There's really nobody else in the film. That's pretty much it. And that comes to one of my main issues with the movie, I guess, is several. I mean, you're basically stuck with this group of six people, I think it is.

Yeah, about six. Five or six? Yeah, six. You're right. And.

Yeah, at least two of them are the most annoying people you could ever be stuck with. Oh, God. Winston Berg. Yeah, the other two guys. Yeah, Winston Berg, the big hunter, and even the tracker, who at the beginning comes off all right.

I think, well, this guy will be tolerable. As it goes on, he's really annoying, too. So those two, especially together out in the woods with them, it becomes very grating as the movie goes on. You're right, because the tracker guy... He comes off in the very beginning as this kind of likable wilderness guide, adventure type fella who can do anything.

Yeah. And you're really getting behind him. But then as the movie goes along, you start to get irritated with him. His acting gets bad. Winston Berg, actor Philip Granger, his acting is just bad from the get-go.

Yes, it is. And that hair. What the hell was up with that flippy hair? And how much whiskey did he have in that flask? It is funny because they brought that up in the commentary.

They kept going, the never-ending flask. Yes, itty-bitty little flask, and yet he drinks it for 90 minutes. The entire, how many days they were out there anyway. He gets tanked on very, well, I mean, obviously it was a lot. I also thought it was funny that the first thing that came up was that this is a wilderness production.

I thought that was kind of funny. I was like, oh, yeah, well, if you're going to make a Sasquatch movie or a movie in the woods, you might as well name your company Wilderness. Call it a wilderness production. I don't know if they got much further after this one. You get some edgy found footage type stuff at the beginning.

Yeah. Again, to me, the intro is very choppy. It's slapped together in a couple of scenes. And I know they're trying to, I guess, go with that you don't know what's going on and then maybe they'll piece it together down the line. But really, it's just slapped together.

I don't know exactly what they were thinking. In that whole little sequence with the daughter, it's like, you barely get an idea of what happened really. So I don't know. It seemed like they needed to expand on that at least a little bit. Yeah.

You know, I'll be honest with you, man. I'm, I'm pretty much done with the found footage thing. It's, it's, yeah, it's kind of reached the mark here. I don't know that we need any more at this point. Yeah.

And you know, there's only so many people that can do it well and I'm just, I'm done with it. I'm just, And this is 2002, so I can't really mock them like they just ripped off Paranormal Activity or they knocked off something recent. I'm just talking about... In general. Yeah, that video camera shot stuff.

It's too much. I guess at this point it wasn't. It was still kind of new. Blair Witch wasn't that old at this point. So they were obviously ripping it off, kind of.

Oh, they were definitely ripping off Blair Witch. Yeah. Especially with the shot toward the end. It's like, wow, really? Well, while we're going into movies that are ripping off, do we want to talk about why does Bigfoot have predator vision?

My next note was actually Sasquatch vision? Yeah. I was like, did he fall from space? What the hell happened? Yeah, how can he see anything?

All he sees is bright orange people with purple backgrounds. Well, I always thought the Predator kind of had, you know, for his fancy machinery, it wasn't the best, really. I was like, couldn't you make a little better version of that where you could actually, I mean, I get the heat sensitive version, but still, isn't there like another setting where you could see what the hell's going on? Yeah. I mean, well, the predator vision, at least I could see what was going on.

This one was just ridiculous. I just, it was just like bright orange masses on purple backgrounds. It was really cheap looking. It's terrible. It was, yeah, it was all like any of those shots were like a hundred percent done in computer.

I don't even think they, adjusted the film footage. If you watch it as they go on, I think even the trees and stuff around it, I think it's all just bad computer animation, really. Yeah, because you're supposed to see warm stuff, and I don't know a whole lot about that type of vision, but at one point, one character gets into a hot spring, and I would think that a lot of that area would be kind of orange. Glowing, yeah. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

Maybe one of your listeners knows more about infrared vision than I do. Or Sasquatch vision? Or at least he should have been a different color and sort of disappeared into it. There should have been something. Yeah, I think the science was a little off on their vision as well.

Oh, the science was a lot off in this movie, buddy. Well, it is cryptozoology, so the science is questionable anyway. Cryptozoology. The camaraderie between the group is pretty bad. That's one of the biggest problems right there.

We were talking about the casting. Hendrickson, you can totally tell he's getting a paycheck here. Oh, yeah. And this is Puffy Lance. This is older Lance.

And he's kind of got a little bit of weight on his face. And he's really just kind of dialing it in. There's nothing. You know, I'll be honest with you. I really just don't like Lance Erickson that much when he plays a good guy.

Yeah, it's harder for him. But I don't know. There were scenes where it's sad because I guess it's just comparing him to the rest of the cast because the scene with him in the plane where he finds the wreckage, and he's kind of looking at where his daughter died. And there's a few sequences that I'm like, you know, he's actually doing a little bit of acting here. And I think it's almost second nature.

I think it's just he is a decent actor. And I think he falls right into it. And that, I think, makes it so much worse for the rest of the cast. Because you see them struggling, trying to find a character or something. And Lance just does his thing.

I mean, he's pretty much Lance in every movie he's in. Just sometimes he's the good guy, sometimes he's the bad. But there's not many shades of difference even between his good and bad guys. He's just sort of Lance in most things he goes into. Yeah, and he is the best thing in the movie.

Yeah. Outside of the location they shot him in, which is beautiful. But, I mean, outside of that, he's the best thing in the movie. Yeah, yeah. The rest of them, like I said, the original two, but even like the computer guys, kind of ridiculous.

Oh, yeah. And can you tell, like, the only other one that's almost tolerable, the Andrea Roth chick isn't bad. Like, she doesn't do anything. My question is, did you ever figure out why she's there? Like, why that blonde just shows up in the middle of, like, she's so out of place.

And I guess they were going for that. You know, let's throw some sort of weird chick in the middle of it. Supposedly, she knew something about something Hendrickson's company was developing. That's all I caught. But she never really did. did anything.

By the end, she was trying to... We won't go into that fully yet, but she comes into contact with this thing she sort of knows something about. But at the same time, it's like she still didn't seem like she was there for any real reason. She just sort of tagged along for no special purpose. She was there for a reason.

She was there to deliver exposition to move the story along. Yeah, I guess. The one that tops her, though, is that other chick. She had nothing to do. Like, I felt bad for the actress.

I was like, what a waste. Like, I hope you at least got a normal paycheck for this. I guess that was Mary Mancini. Yes, yes. Yes, she had nothing.

You're right. She had nothing to do. She looked like a slender Nia Vardalos or whatever her name is, that girl from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Yeah. That's what she looked like.

Yeah, I mean, she might have been a decent actress. I don't know. She only had a couple of speaking parts throughout the whole thing. She was just a waste of space. And again, not even blaming her for it.

It was just like, why are you writing in characters that you don't need, I guess, if you're not going to make them do anything? Just cut it down to four or five. Well, it's very much a standard walk for a while, spout some dialogue, stop at a campfire, tell a story. Get up the next day, have a slight encounter maybe in the middle of the night. Either that or a possible sexual encounter in the middle of the night.

Then wake up the next day, walk some more, stop, another campfire, another story. Get this. Northern California, 1883. A group of women go to visit their husbands at a gold mining camp. Picture it.

Long dresses, parasols, high heels, French perfume. Everything would have been fine if it hadn't been for the French perfume. So when they arrived, men went wild. I mean, they hadn't had any female contact in months. But let me tell you, it wasn't just the men they succeeded in attracting.

Late that night, a Sasquatch attracted by the lady's perfume entered the camp and abducted one of the women. Then he took her back to his cave and mated with her. Oh, God! You're sick, puppy. Legend has it, nine months later, she gave birth to a baby completely covered in brown fur.

What a bunch of bulls. Oh, would you shut up? You know, wash, rinse, repeat. It was that all the way up to a certain point, which I think I even wrote down the minute. Let's see.

59 minutes is when we actually get a full-blown Sasquatch attack. Yeah, which, I don't know. It Do we want to go into the stuff with the Sasquatch at this point, or do we want to hold off a little bit? I'm trying to see if I got any other notes here before we get to that, but I really don't. I mean, before that, the only thing, I mean, we also, and I think what, in the first half of the movie, became another really sort of grating and big problem for me was the way that they pieced everything together.

Like, they just overdid this crazy slow-mo stuff and the ridiculous shots and all these weird, like, jumping back and forth between shots and fade to black between shots. And I'm like, is this guy showing off? Or what the hell is he doing exactly? The director is just throwing in all these tricks that were kind of above the movie, you know? Yeah, it was almost like a wedding video.

Well, not even that. It's like it was trying to be, like, really super high-end developed or something. It was like he was trying to work in, like, a really artsy movie. But I'm like, we're watching Sasquatch here, you know? It's like, And there's a way, I guess, you could make a well-made, well-thought-out movie about this, but this is not it.

So when you're watching this half-assed movie, but you've got this director or whoever put in all this stuff, it might have even been put in after the fact, but it just becomes really annoying and kind of ridiculous that you're trying to piece together this half-assed plot anyway, and then it keeps jumping back and forth, and it'll fade to black every few seconds before it starts the next little segment of the scene, and I don't know, it just got really attempting to be artsy, but didn't have anything to back it up. And then midway through, it seems like it forgot about half of that. It's like it got away from it halfway into the movie. Yeah, it's totally a movie. One of my notes was this made for TV, because at first I thought the way the breaks were going, it felt like it was edited for television on the DVD.

But then I started to realize that he was using the kind of fade to blacks as a stylistic choice. Yeah, which, again, could be great in a better movie, but they just seem odd and out of place in this movie. Well, really, the biggest problem with the movie is the pacing. I mean, the movie is ultimately boring. Yes, yes it is.

I know, I just had this feeling while I was watching it that you were watching it somewhere going, ugh, Jesus, can we see a Sasquatch, please? Well, my thing, I got all the way to the end, and this won't spoil anything, because I just got to the end and went, did anything happen? I was just like, What the. Hell's going on here? So, yeah, that jumps all the way to the end there.

But, well, we can go on with what supposedly happened. But on the way there, I just remember watching and watching and half falling asleep and watching. And by the end, I was just like, wait, what the hell? I was like, where did we go with this movie? Yeah, there was a lot of what the hell moments.

And it wasn't the kind of what the hell moments that are good what the hell moments, you know, where you get a smile on your face because it's ludicrous or it's kind of silly. Those are priceless, actually. There is a moment where I was like, you know, what the fuck? But, you know, we haven't got to that point yet. I'll talk about it here in a little bit, but haven't got to that point yet.

But I did want to also add that it's funny to me that, you know, they're looking for this plane, and they finally find this area where they think the plane might have crashed. They found one piece in a tree, and then they walk for another two miles or something, and they find the rest of the plane. And they say it must have crashed way back there, but then it got dragged over here. And they're like, well, how can that happen? This plane weighs 5,000 pounds.

Something must have dragged it that was really strong. They kept saying that. Like something must have drugged the plane. Did you ever figure out why the hell would you drag the plane? Yeah, I can't figure out why you would drag it.

And also, there's no way anything could drag a plane through that because there was trees everywhere. That's the other thing I was thinking. I was like, well, it's still a big plane. I mean, yeah, unless you've got a giant clearing, you can't be dragging it in one big piece like that. You wreck a plane into a forest that densely wooded, the plane is going to disintegrate.

Yeah, first of all, it's not going to look like a plane anymore. It's going to be just. Little shreds of metal and everything else that was inside. Yeah. That doesn't make any sense.

And then if it were still shaped like a plane, there's no way in hell you could drag it through all the trees. So yeah, giant plot points there needed addressing. But again, it was just another reason for them to have to walk from one spot to another while telling more exposition. I guess, but why did they even pretend like that? Wouldn't it have been simpler to just not find it that first time and get to it eventually?

Yes, it would have. Oh, it crashed here. Well, it did give us a chance to watch our ranger guy climb a tree. Well, I don't think I need to see that. That's really all I did.

Really, if you think about it, he's the only reason why. He all of a sudden says, hold on to this, and he starts running up this tree. It's like, what the hell? What am I doing? I'm watching a grown man climb a tree.

This is not entertainment. Like the Lumberjack games or something. Yeah, I don't think that's what we need in this movie. It's got enough issues. I'm ready to get into some spoiler talk if you want to get into it.

I guess. Does any of this tie into the... Because I specifically wanted to address when the blonde gets in the tent moment. Oh, okay. We can talk about that.

That's not even related to Bigfoot, really. I'm talking about the first part when she gets into the tent. That is the most ridiculously unsexy shot. Well, what the hell is that? Once again, we enter into a different movie.

It's like everything up to now has been straight, boring, little wannabe action movie, I guess, with mostly sex. up and no action. So we're sitting there. We've been in the woods for a half hour. And all of a sudden it goes into like Skinamax section where it becomes this. Slow, lingering shot on her.

She's taking her shirt off. And then it zooms in on her feet. So we've got the fetish crowd signing on at this point. Yeah, you've got her thigh. You've got her knee.

You've got her hip. And it lingers on them. It's not like it's a quick shot. It just hangs there looking at her thighs. And I'm just like...

What the hell? Where did this come from in this movie? Yeah, now, if they would have been wise, if they would have went full-blown nudity, because then it could have been more in the exploitation mode, and I would have been more down for it. Yeah, it would have made sense, at least, because, okay, this is what you're selling this DVD. You're going to rent this DVD because it's got naked in this scene, which they bring back later.

They do eventually put in, which I believe was a pretty big jump to a body double, But they do a real quick shot of nudity. So I'm like, well, if you're going to do it anyway, why did you not do it in the beginning? And if you were trying to hold out or you were making this for TV, which is, again, what it seemed like for a while there, then just don't put nudity in. But then later they throw these shots of nudity in out of nowhere that I'm just like, oh my God, this movie is so inconsistent. Yes.

My only thought is that they probably couldn't get Andrea Roth to do that nude scene. Probably, probably not, which I mean, that wasn't, but I guess it was another one that was like inserted into the movie later, because as they were talking about, they said that part in the tent wasn't even shot out there on location. It's in Hollywood somewhere. It's like a cut in shot that they did with her. But I'm like, once again, if you're going to go insert this back in, why not do something with it i mean even if it's just use it for lame nudity i mean yeah at least you would get something out of it then.

I would say it's the worst thing in the movie the way it's shot put in there and kind of ham-fisted but yeah it's for me it's the second worst thing we haven't gotten to the worst thing yet. I don't even know if it still falls into that cat it was just so jarring at that point i was like what did did we switch to another movie. Well i was laughing So I'm sure you probably were too. You were probably smiling or laughing because it's ridiculous. Well, and they bring up the, at the campfire earlier, they bring up the mating with Sasquatch that I alluded to earlier.

So. Yeah. Okay. Are you on your, you know, is that time of the month? Yeah.

Well, they like to bring that up. He brought that up a couple of times. She's always trying to get into Mr. H's pants. Yeah.

But obviously she's, you know, she's hit her period at the same time. So. She's one of them freaky girls. She just wants to go for it. There ain't nothing wrong with it.

Mr. H, maybe he's into that. There is a good scene between her and Hendrickson on a log crossing a ravine. That's the time when she's kind of entertaining. She's, again, about the only other watchable thing in this movie.

She's got her moments where it's like, alright, she's alright. She's moving the thing along here. That's about it. It's very minimal. Yeah, and Hendrickson has that great line where he says, I don't pay for what I can get for free or something like that.

And she's like, ooh. It's a good moment between the two of them. It's pretty good stuff. Yeah, that's about as good as it gets in this movie. You are right.

That is as good as it gets. But yeah, back to, they bring up the story as they're sitting there about Sasquatch mating with women. And then that's one of the... theories of that they throw out there of where this came from is somewhere years ago some sasquatch mated with a woman and some hairy child came out or whatever but some hairy child they talk about that it's scary like. Some sasquatch mated with a woman and out came the samurai. Oh god now now the truth comes out but yeah To me, it's like they get that, and then they've got him messing with her in the tent after we've had the Skinamax moment, and I'm just like, okay, come on.

But they don't. They leave it alone. I'm like, now don't tease an idea like mating with Sasquatch. If you're going to throw that out there, come on now. Follow up on it.

I mean, there's nothing that would have been more funny and ridiculous at that point than to see Sasquatch trying to hook up in the tent with this girl. Right, right. Trying to put the moves on her. He puts on a little Barry White. Brings some wine into the tent.

He grabs her ankle. That's pretty much all he does. Yeah, that's lame. That was. That was not good at all.

I wanted to see him, you know, put the moves on her. Yeah, it was pretty bad. Oh, wow. Altogether. So, I guess, yeah, if you want to move on into the actual spoilery Bigfoot area here.

Yeah. Well, the thing is... You know, this is all spoilers, so, you know, and I want to, you know, make sure we talk about this. But, I mean, just warn everybody that this is going to be spoilers. So if you're not going to watch the movie, then, you know, and you still won't listen to this, that's fine.

I don't think it's going to matter. Even with the, I mean, even knowing what we're going to say, I don't think it's going to hurt the movie one way or the other. It's still going to be pretty much the same movie. Yes. So we come to find out that the plane, when it went down, evidently there was some blood on the plane, which we never see.

But they keep talking about this blood on the plane and that they'd hit something, but they don't know what. And, you know, of course, you're laying in the woods, so you could hit anything. They make this big deal out of blood on a plane. And what I found funny about it was I just kept laughing about them talking about this blood on the plane. And so we eventually find out that, you know, the Sasquatch is near the plane area.

He takes out the drunk guy. And, you know, that's a 59-minute mark when we get a Sasquatch kill. Yeah, really. That couldn't have came any sooner, I mean, any later. I mean, it was terrible that we had to wait that long for this character that I could not stand.

Yeah, that's what I don't understand. And, again, while they're throwing in all these extra characters, with most horror movies, that's why you have such a large group is so you can be knocking them off every 15 minutes. Yes. And this one, they're throwing in two or three characters we don't even need. And it's still an hour into the movie before we finally kill one of these annoying bastards off.

Yes. It didn't make any sense to me. No, not at all. But then when we get to the back end of the film and we get a nice scene where they go into the Sasquatch or the Untold's little his bat cave, so to speak. Which was actually probably the other best part of the movie.

I really like the structure itself. Yes, yes. And the way that things were stored in there was pretty cool. Yep. And, yeah, that was okay.

I mean, the production design there was pretty good and stuff. The way our Army Ranger, or not our Army Ranger, our Park Ranger reacts to it was pretty ridiculous. Well, he's just a bad actor. He's like, oh, jeez. But the structure itself, especially in this movie, which has a very modest budget, it looked good, and they did a decent job with it and kind of interesting the structure of the bodies and whatnot.

So it was pretty cool. Yes, that was pretty cool. So now we're into chase mode, though. Now we're into people running through the woods, ultra-cheap filmmaking, point-of-view shots, all kinds of crap like that going on. And I'm thinking, okay, we're never going to see this Sasquatch.

This is going to be one of those Sasquatch movies. Yeah. Because I've watched a lot of these things. I'd never seen this one before we did it for the show, so this one's new to me. So I was thinking, oh, yeah, this is going to be one of those Sasquatch movies.

We're not going to see the Sasquatch. But then we do see the Sasquatch, or the Untold. And this is easily one of the worst movie costumes I've ever seen. See, now, are we talking about the very end shot of him kind of thing? Yeah, we're talking about the face-off.

Okay. Because this, and again, this gets into what little more I found out about... when them making the movie is they had two different versions of the suit. Okay. And the ones, the ones that we get in those little flashes along the way were the ones that the original makeup guy did and were actually like really good. And then they had to do reshoots at the end and they didn't have that guy anymore.

I don't remember what happened. He might've died or something. I can't remember, but he like, then they had to go back and piece together this other suit and they just slapped one together for this last day of shoots or whatever and And that ends up being the big final one that we end up seeing, I think. And that's sad, because what little you saw of the other one actually looked like it was decent, but we never really got to see that. That was the half-second shots that they would throw in here and there throughout the movie.

But when you get to the grand finale shot where you actually show it, and it's like a hairy guy, you know? It's nothing. Well, he's not a hairy guy. He's a bodybuilder guy with... the strands of hair attached to his body by what looks like rubber bands. It's like patchy hair he got.

Because his legs, like the front of them are bare, but he's got these long strands coming off the sides. I'm like, couldn't you at least? And I think they do joke. They're like, oh yeah, we didn't have any more hair. I was like, wow, really?

Yeah, at least put him behind a tree or something. Yeah, it looked so thrown together, which I. Guess it was. They painted him completely black too. Yeah.

Which was ridiculous looking. I mean, it was totally, he looked more like a gorilla than he did a Sasquatch. Yeah. Basically it was really, really bad. And it really, it really ruined what was already a bad movie.

Yeah. Because if your money shot is that bad, you really just, you know, you're better off not showing it and having people leave the theater mad for not showing the Sasquatch. But that was, and that, that, was kind of my note was going the other way, not about the suit, but just with the structure of the movie. I was like, why didn't they show the monster? Last time out, Legend of Boggy Creek, it kind of helped that they didn't show it.

Before, that guy had no money and they're using a cheap bear suit more than likely. So it's like it was really smart of him to be like off the distance or out of focus or a half second shot. But this is, you know, many years later with a hell of a lot bigger budget than that guy had. So you'd think they could get together a pretty decent suit of some sort. And to me, that would have helped the movie.

Like if we would have had a full on screen, like it could have teased it for about a half hour. But after that, if we could have gotten him on screen and had him taken out these annoying characters every 15 minutes like he needs to. Mm hmm. I think it would have helped the movie itself. It's like, I think this kind of movie would have actually been improved by seeing the creature on screen.

And we don't really get that the whole rest of the movie. Right. Right. Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, it's obvious to me, I need to listen to this commentary track and I would actually watch the film again to hear that commentary because. There's not much else to it. I hate to tell you. I mean, they, it's just them. Like again, the title scene and like some of the stuff about the, the makeup change and all that.

But, It's not really that interesting, I have to say. There's not a whole lot going on there. Yeah, well, that's a shame. Yeah, it kind of is. This movie's pretty embarrassing.

I mean, it's pretty bad. And Hendrickson, man, he ought to be... I mean, I would say he ought to be ashamed of himself, but he's done other stuff that's just as bad as this. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's a working actor.

He understands, you know, sometimes you've got to cash a check. And I think we, as movie fans, kind of understand that, too. I mean, it doesn't... excuse the movies but you know i i think we don't necessarily hold it against them sometimes. Right it was it's a job you know yeah well me and will talk about that on our show all the time you know sometimes these actors you know that you know don't hit the big paychecks and the big movies and stuff you know they're working actors you know they got they got families they got kids they got car payments they got everything like we do yeah yeah they gotta go to work you know and if it means starring in a movie with shit squatch and that's what it means Oh, man.

How about the fact that we forgot to mention that Bigfoot has spidey sense? Yes, he does. He's a superhero, Bigfoot. He can sense danger. That's why, because they were like, well, if there was a Bigfoot out there, how come nobody's ever shot one and killed one?

Well, because he can sense the bullets are coming and he ducks them. Yeah. Even though I think he takes a hit at one point, or at least we're led to believe he takes a hit. Well, that's because that guy was drunk and he was just randomly firing. If he had been thinking about it, he could have sensed it, but that guy was just spinning in a circle firing.

I still don't even understand the physics of that Bigfoot attack because all of a sudden it's like Bigfoot's hanging from a tree or something and he pulls him up. He must be really, really tall. That must have been what they were going for because he reaches from way, way down, way above to pull the drunk guy up above his head. Well, that's another one. One of the few things that they brought up that was almost useful is they brought up how much they don't They were kind of going out of their way to not make it gory.

Right. Like, again, for some sort of artistic sense, I think... The only thing they said they were trying to base this on was, like, the old movie serials kind of thing. Like, the old action serials and going out in the woods and, you know, looking for whatever it was they would have been looking for back then, only this was a Bigfoot version of it. And they were trying to keep it like that, I think, that it was supposed to be, like, very action-oriented but not really gory.

And once again, I'm like, do you know what movie you're making? I mean, that's, you know... It's like they kind of missed the memo of what they were piecing together here. I was like, that's what sells this kind of movie. I mean, you're making a very cheap straight-to-DVD movie.

You don't want to throw in the naked girl in the tent. You don't want to throw in bad, violent shots with over-the-top gore, because at least you're going to please the people that are looking for that. I wouldn't be impressed one way or the other, but somebody would at least sign on, where here you just get kind of nothing on all fronts, really. Yeah. Yeah, that's the biggest problem with the movie.

I think, you know, after I watched this, it was one of those few moments where I felt like I wasted 90 minutes of my life. And you know, Brian, I watch a lot of crap. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I usually get a lot of crap from the rest of the guys for making them watch horrible movies. And I get so, that's what's so funny is they will be just all bitching about it.

And I'm like, I don't care. I had a good time, you know. Right. As we watched Night of the Lepus last week. Right.

I was thoroughly amused for pretty much the whole run of the movie. The rest were not so much. But I was like, you know, it's, you kind of get what you want out of it. And usually I can find the good time to be had out of most bad movies. But even then, like this one was just so lackluster in every aspect that it's, It's really hard to find something good to take from it.

Yes. I can't think of anything. The only way I could recommend this film to anybody is if they are a Lance Henriksen completist or they are a Bigfoot aficionado such as myself or you. That's the only way I would go anywhere near this film. If you are neither one of those things at all, then you have no business watching this movie.

Trust me, you were just more entertained by me and you talking about it Probably. Than this movie was. Oh, man. It was really rough. Yeah, I was kind of expecting a little more.

Let me just say, though, too, that ham-fisted scene where he buries a seashell for his daughter. I almost wanted to punch my television. I was so irritated. Well, that was one of the things, like, that part was silly, but at the same time, there were shots here and there. That was one of the ones I thought looked pretty good.

There's moments when it looks good. I was trying to at least give the director something, and, like, there's a few shots. There's a shot of Lance sitting in the plane by the window at the end there that was a good shot. The shot of him standing there burying it with the people behind him was a good shot. So there's moments.

I've looked the guy up. He's done a couple of other what seem to be really bad straight-to-DVD movies, so... I don't know if there's really any hope for him that he'll ever graduate up to a better movie. There's moments of promise, but again, it doesn't really excuse the whole rest of the movie. Yeah, exactly.

That's the thing. I was thinking about it, and I looked him up, and he recently did the film that was on Netflix Instant that I almost watched, which is such a weird coincidence. It was that film Scourge. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of got a cool straight DVD cover.

I was like, I'm going to watch that. You know, that looks like it might be kind of cool. Of course, you know, I know that these things typically aren't. That's why they get the cool cover. Yeah.

Sucker you in. And I thought, oh, I'll watch that. I'll watch that movie. But I never got around to it. And now I'm thinking after watching this, I'll never get around to it because I have no interest in it.

Unless this director does something to change some of his aspects, I don't have any interest in him. Yeah, I mean, it is one of those, I don't know, listening to them, I don't know how much to blame on them, because there really was a lot of stuff that they were like, where did that part go? Really, if you want to hear the commentary, I'll lend you this movie, because it is interesting just to watch them sit there and go, what about this part? I thought that was earlier. And they were like, no, that got taken out.

So it's like there was almost so much going on that they didn't even know was going on. So I don't know who... was doing it all, really, because, again, we had the director and the executive producer sitting there, so unless there's a producer somewhere that was just slapping this thing together the way that he wanted, I don't know where the lost aspect of this is coming from that's totally screwing up this movie more than it already. I mean, it wasn't going into it as a great movie, but it could have been entertaining, at least, if nothing else, and it even loses that. And I'm not sure who all to blame it on. I will have to give them credit.

Do you know this was shot in 12 days? Yeah, I can see that because it's really just walking around the woods. There's not much else to it. They really just needed, you know. I actually tweeted when I was watching this film.

I actually tweeted, you know, one of the movie conventions I'm really sick of is people running through the woods, running through the woods, and then all of a sudden coming to a cliff. Yeah. And with a bunch of waterfalls. And I'm like, you couldn't hear that waterfall? No.

Two miles away? Yeah, those are usually kind of loud. Yeah, the waterfall only drops about 500 feet. I'm sure you could probably hear that in the woods, but, you know, it's just one of those things you get tired of. But, yeah, I mean, I would like to borrow it.

I actually would like it. I wouldn't mind it. I'll borrow that from you sometime. I like those commentaries. Commentaries for bad movies are actually more interesting than commentaries for good movies.

Yeah. Yeah, again, there's not much from the... the artistic end of it. But again, the only part that seems kind of interesting is the fact that they're surprised by what they're watching as much as we are. Yes. I don't know if they're in horror as much as we are.

Yes. They seem to be in shock as things they expected to be somewhere aren't there anymore. I don't know. I think there's a couple moments looking at Hendrickson's face where it looks to me like he's in horror that he's in this thing. I agree, actually.

He's a long way from survival quest in this film, I can tell you that. Has nothing to do with Bigfoot. Yes. All right, so what's this damn thing do anyway? I can't tell you that.

Look, let's get on with the search. I gotta find my. Why, you already got what you came for. Yeah, why don't you tell these nice people what they're really risking their necks for? I'd really like to know what it.

Does, Mr. A. It doesn't have to tell you a damn thing. Where are you going to? I'm heading back.

I didn't come up here for some damn box. You're wasting my time. Listen, Chief. You leave and you're fired. Oh, yeah?

Yeah. You know something, Berg? You can take your damn money and eat it on the way out of here. All right, look. We did come up here to search for survivors.

That tin box is the future of my corporation. Hey, listen. This ain't no game. There definitely is something up here. Something that can drag 5,000 pounds of airplane through miles of bush.

Something that can rip a man's arm off and take a grizz down with a rock. Now, I came up here because there was word we might have survivors. And when that happens, I don't say no. Alright? You clear?

Good. Your machine's fine. Your company's fine. I'm gone. We really didn't even touch on the black box aspect.

He goes toting this black box through the whole movie. The whole last half. Of the movie. This is what he's in there to get. This technology that can...

I don't know. I guess you can pull a hair out of my head and stick it on this box and it can tell me everything. I mean, isn't that just a DNA machine? What's the, what's the big deal? I was like, I was like, don't we kind of have that?

I mean, the only thing it, What we wouldn't have seen before is the Bigfoot aspect that now you have a hair from Bigfoot that you threw in there. And we have all that information. But other than that, didn't they have those machines before that? They just didn't have the Bigfoot fur to make use of. Well, all I can think is that what it basically is is just a faster version of that.

It's like going from a desktop to a laptop. Or it's like going from, I don't know, a regular phone to iPhone. I don't fucking know. Yeah. I don't have any explanation.

Really, all it looks like is a filing box with a piece of electronic firmware on top of it with a couple switches and a red light. Yep. It's funny. Yeah, they took this thing around the whole last half of the movie, and it becomes sort of an important aspect. The board game operation looks fancier.

Yeah, really. Well, the only other thing I wanted to discuss was they throw out a theory in this that I thought we should present at least in our series here. Okay. And they thought that they kind of addressed this, but not really. There's originally this thought that each species was its own and no two versions could exist more or less of the same species.

Now, since that has been disproven, so they say, and this theory that they come from with this idea is that it stems from the Bigfoot is basically the same species as we are. It just branched off at some point and developed in its own way. So we are essentially the same creature. So that's kind of a new version of it, that he's not like his own animal running around out there. He's actually a different version of us out there in the world.

I could see that. I mean, that makes sense. I mean, if you think about nature and what it does and stuff, I mean, that's a perfectly logical explanation for a Bigfoot. Yeah. For a Sasquatch to exist.

I mean, it makes sense to me. And in this, again, we are just sort of trying to address what they do with the monster in each of these movies. And in this movie... Again, for the bulk of it, he seems just like a monster. But in the end, they present him as a more intelligent creature.

As they work through, it's like there's the paintings on the walls, which I guess shows he's pretty sophisticated. I mean, that's what you got from it, right? Yeah, yeah. They were freshly done, so they were Bigfoot-made paintings. Well, he wants revenge.

So a creature has to have intelligence to want revenge because an animal is only going to really attack him. if provoked or if their life is in danger, they're not going to plot. Yeah, I mean, like the mother of some protective animal will attack if you're there currently attacking her children. Yes. But if it's, you know, years later, she's not going to remember you unless it's the shark from Jaws 4. Oh, yeah, well, there you go.

Or, yeah, that's a good point. Or, you know, if a plane goes down and accidentally kills one of your offspring, which is what we're led to believe here, You know, the next group of people that come in four or five weeks later, you're not going to take your revenge on them. I mean, if a creature is that calculating that they're going to take revenge, then they would be calculating enough to know, possibly, that those people have nothing to do with it. Yeah. Well, and it's also, by the end of it, talking about the black box, I mean, it's smart enough to understand that that machine they're carrying around basically would out him to the world, him or her, whatever this thing is.

Yeah, whatever that thing was. But it realizes that it would basically end up destroying him or his entire kind once the word got out. So it's smart enough to know, hey, they can't escape with that black box. Again, it's kind of weird because it sets it up like it could have been a grizzly bear attacking them in the beginning. And then by the end, we've got this ridiculously intelligent aspect of the creature that they don't even tap in on.

I don't know. There's a germ of a good idea in this film. Unfortunately, it's just a germ. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That part is actually a really cool idea.

And something kind of original in this type of movie. Because usually it is just a big dumb creature. So if they could have found a way that they could have shown that it was kind of smart and it was actually protecting its own kind, maybe not in such a ridiculous way, but if it was smart enough to figure all this out and or even if it was just like a revenge movie but set it up a little better but but i like the way that they they tried to tap into that and then they just totally like they barely touch on it so again there's a good idea there that they never followed through with never so does that about round out the uh sasquatch. Here that's all the notes i have on a movie that doesn't even deserve this much of a conversation.

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So we actually, I've been telling people, if you've got your Bigfoot-related feedback, to just send it in, and we'll actually just address it next time we come back around to this. First up, we hear from Greg, and he says, listen to the show at work today. First of all, I'd like to give you mad props for the intro, which, by the way, the intro is an awesome song called Hatchet the One Sasquatch. which was done many, many years ago by friends of mine. And sadly, the band is defunct now, but it's an awesome song and album and. They do rules.

So I can argue that. But yeah, he thought he was one of the few handful of people in the world that can truly appreciate it. But now we can put it out there and other people can experience it. But it was funny. But he says, great job on the special episode.

I like the focus and the change of pace. Good length, great discussion, and a great choice of subject. He says, I'm looking forward to more in the Bigfoot series in the future. I really appreciate the in-depth discussion on the American myth, which we got pretty far into the American myth on the old Boggy Creek episode. Yeah, yeah.

He says, I really do agree with you that it speaks to our identity as a people. America is a collective of people that have chosen to be wild, escape, separate, innovate, and risk. Bigfoot is our myth. good job and good subject he goes on to say by your description it appears as though what works in this film is the oral history legend aspect of it i think all of us crave those stories especially when some portion of our dna is related to them tying into what we said earlier with our little theory on the uh We all come from the same big species here. He says, Bigfoot is the last gasp of our manifest destiny. He is as legendary as Davy Crockett and the like.

It is why we preserve natural areas such as wilderness lands and national parks, because all we really want and hope is that it is still out there, and the wild must still exist for an American heart to retain its freedom. Again, good subject and good job. Nice. I was thinking about that. Some of my favorite things about Well, if there's anything I really liked about this film we just reviewed was the...

I always do kind of like when people go out into the woods and they start telling the Bigfoot story. Yeah. That's kind of fun. I've been at those campfires before. Of course, our generation also got the slasher story.

Yeah, probably the last couple, really. Yeah, so they've got the slasher story to go with the Bigfoot story, but I can remember older relatives of mine telling Bigfoot stories when we would be in the woods of Kentucky. Yeah. And there was people out there with big feet, but they were just, you know, mutants who drank too much moonshine. There's equally as scary people out there.

Probably scarier than Bigfoot, true. Yes, that is true. They saw a lot of overalls. Yes. Bigfoot nowhere else. oh but yeah he just wrapped up with uh saying he says it sounds like there are a few flaws in the film but i wouldn't mind watching it even though he says he doesn't think he can get his wife to watch which i agree knowing what little i know of her she probably won't watch it.

Yeah i don't think anybody's wife would watch this. No probably not uh says it's a nice little gym though and he may have to hunt it down so i think that was the foggy creek i would say yeah if you're into it you might want to watch that one I don't know about Sasquatch. If you watch Sasquatch, let us know. But that was from Greg. So thank you, Greg.

Yeah, thank you, Greg. Boggy Creek is, yeah, that's definitely, Boggy Creek looks like Citizen Kane compared to this film. It is a masterpiece compared to this. Yes. Oh, now the only other piece we've got here is actually out of another message that was sent in.

And if you listened a while back, you probably heard it thrown in with the rest of them. But I wasn't sure if you'd heard it, Rick. So I thought I would let you listen. This is from Randy, as you well know. Here we go.

Bigfoot. I totally got your Bigfoot show. Loved hearing, Rick. When I was a kid, I remember seeing the mysterious monsters, and I grew up in the age of Leonard Nimoy and in search of, and I was absolutely sure that my adult world would involve Eastern Island heads and... ufos the loch ness monster and little did i know when i grew up i'd be dealing with management people lawyers and my goddamn. Neighbors okay so there we go i love her yes i had her i had heard that before yeah i like that part those are the bigfoots and the aliens of our time Yeah, all.

The horrors of the real world that are way more frightening than Bigfoot could ever be. Well, that's another reason why we need Bigfoot. We need Bigfoot to escape and get away from the everyday boredom and tedious lifestyles that we have sometimes. We need Bigfoot to bash lawyers over the head. Is that what it's coming down to?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I've ever actually said this, and I can say it on the show now. I mean, I want to believe that Bigfoot exists. Yeah, I think we kind of touched on that last time. We're both sort of of the camp that thinks it's definitely a more interesting world to have a Bigfoot in it. Very much so.

I mean, I would very much be very happy, and I said very a lot there, if Bigfoot existed. But I'd be afraid if he ever got found because human beings are not the most compassionate when it comes to discovering new creatures or creatures that are near extinct. We tend to destroy the things. Yeah, so if you're out there listening, Bigfoot, we're glad to have you as a listener, but yeah, you might want to keep in hiding. Yeah, also update your iTunes, because now the iPad is available, so make sure you update your iTunes.

That's true. And you can email us, you know, that'd be cool. That'd be cool. Send in a voicemail, like that. Or just send in some cave drawings.

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Or you can email us at geeksatmoviemeltdown.com. And just stop by the website for our frequent updates. That's moviemeltdown.com. And while you're there, click on the forums link and go to our message boards at Pop Syndicate. Or go to popsyndicate.com and go to the forum sections and look for Movie Meltdown.

Oh, but yeah, so keep the Bigfoot feedback coming and we will address it next time out. Yes, as long as we make the announcement when we're going to do these things. Yeah, I'm sure more and more people are going to. Tune in for some Bigfoot talk. There's got to be more Bigfoot fans.

Bigfeets. At any point. I mean, like I said, the one from Greg earlier actually came in right after the last episode. Nice, nice. And I told him, I was like, well, I'm just going to hang on to it.

You know, well, next time we sit down, we'll both address it. So, yeah, just send him in as soon as you listen to this, and we'll just hang on to him until the next time we do another fun-filled Bigfoot episode. That sounds like a good idea to me. All right. Well, that was it for the feedback, but we've got to move on just to keep people up to date on what we're doing next in our usual fashion.

Okay, kids, get out your decoder pins. It is time for the Movie Meltdown Secret Circle reveal of the next two features. I could tell that tonight's message was really important. Which you're invited to join us for either of these. I appreciate that.

You'll probably be overwhelmed with many, many things to do. Yes. As will I, but I'm still going to attempt to... even with all this process, I'm trying to keep us on schedule, trying to, uh, get everything together. So we'll be watching in a nice shamble of a theater next week, but next week we'll be watching the Wraith. Oh, nice.

Nice. Oh, we just got a copy of, uh, the newly remastered or whatever they did to this new version of it. So, yeah. Yeah, they remastered it and put a special edition DVD out. Yeah, we covered that a while back.

That's great. I'm glad you guys are going to do that. That's awesome. Yeah, it's been one that I haven't watched in years, so I'm kind of interested to go back and take a look at it again. Sweet.

And the following week, if I'm not mistaken, will actually be the week that Kick-Ass is coming out in the theaters. Ooh. We're all pretty hyped up to go see basically just Hit-Girl. Yeah. Everybody just wants to see Hit Girls.

Yes. So we will once again head out on the town and see a new movie, which I rarely get a chance to do these days, so I'm kind of looking forward to that, too. Yeah, that's going to be awesome. I can't wait to hear your guys' thoughts on that. I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know.

If I'm available around that time, I'll contact you and see when you guys go, and maybe I'll go with you. But if not, I will definitely be listening. Definitely. Yeah, that should be good. I know Rod's actually already seen it.

He saw it when he went to Butnomathon and was just amazed. Like, that was the entire weekend of movies. That was it. Like, it got no better. And that was his first viewing of Avatar, too.

And he was like, Avatar. He's like, it's all about kick-ass. I think kick-ass speaks to a certain kind of movie fan. I think that's why it's going to translate well. Yeah, I think it's going to work pretty good.

So, I'm looking forward to that one. But otherwise, that is the next coming features here. Sounds good. Anything else you'd like to say to round this thing out? No, I can say, you know, check out our show.

This week we're covering, what are we covering? Oh, we're covering Massacre Time, the Lucio Fulci spaghetti western, and a French post-apocalyptic movie known as Mile Evil. Ah, nice. Yes, very good stuff. Definitely.

Definitely. And the week after that, we're doing a Kurosawa. We're doing a couple Kurosawa films because Will's going to be on vacation. So we're actually going to record four reviews in the morning. That's out of control.

As we're recording this, you know, tomorrow we record our show, and we're going to record four reviews. Good Lord. I know. It's going to be a long morning. Yeah, I'd say so.

Oh, well, then we will fire up the surprisingly accurate Sasquatch music now and head off down the road. Yeah. Otherwise, that about does it. We will return next time. Well, next week, I'll be back regardless.

But you'll be back sometime in the near future as well. I'm always near. Yeah. I'm like Sasquatch. Your presence is always known.

I rarely actually come in contact with you. But I know you're nearby in case I need you. I'm always watching you, Brian. Well, that's probably true. But I have to tell you, it's pretty boring.

I feel sad for you. You should get something more entertaining to do with yourself. Oh. Watching me haul stuff up and down stairs all week. That's what the neighbors have been doing.

But otherwise, we will return next week. Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening. Bye. I got lost in a million years of pain.

Somewhere must have fell. Behind so I ran away. But when how am I still so hard to say? Tell me of your. Yes, I try to hide.

So large you can't cover up my trail yes I try to hide though I always fail light of the glen. Or shadow of the hill there is no place God has not moved past since. I would like. To know just how the story starts. Tracing back my family tree, six thousand years.

Ten million years. All these crazy creatures seem to act as if they know. They chase me with black boxes. God bless you. Chase me with their guns.

Chase me with imagination just to make it fun. I would like to know just how this story starts. Tracing back my family tree. 6,000 years. All two-faced creatures seem to act as if they know.

They chase me with black boxes, chase me with their guns. Chase me with imagination, just to make it fun. I got lost in a million years of pain Oh, that smell isn't my imagination.