Adam Foidart Just looking at the cover for "Sasquatch" you know it's going to be a bad movie because of the ludicrous tag line "based on a true story". If you pop this sucker into your DVD player, you've got no idea what you've got in store for yourself. Luckily for you though, I sat through this terrible horror film and will gladly let you know why you should stay away from it.The premise of the movie is that millionaire Harlan Knowles (Lance Henriksen) hires a team of experts to search a remote forest where his daughter's plane crashed several months ago. The search and rescue people have given up, but Knowles is determined to find her. It becomes clear once they begin getting closer to the crash site that something out there is following them. Killer Bigfoot would be enough, but there's something not quite right about the rich employer. Is he actually coming here to save his daughter, or is there another goal for this trip? It's not that this movie is bad because of the script or the acting or the special effects, it's mostly that it is dull. When you see the DVD cover (which features a sasquatch that looks nothing like the creature featured in the movie) you figure you're going to be treating yourself to something akin a slasher film, but with the killer being a man-eating mythical creature that is going to pick off these foolish explorers one by one. That's what I was hoping to see, but there's little horror in this picture. The focus is almost entirely on the explorers as they try to piece together where the plane has crashed and uncover clues as to what happened. It's as dull as it sounds. They basically stumble through the forest, encountering Sasquatch for a few seconds a couple of times, discover the plane and follow bunch of other clues that don't lead anywhere.Call it a SPOILER ALERT! If you must, but this film sucks so I'm just going to go ahead with it. About halfway through we learn that Knowles is not, in fact looking for his daughter. He's looking for a scientific device (which I operates on magic as far as I can tell). The device in question is able to analyze the DNA of any animal or human and instantly identify it, along with some key physical descriptions, like the colour of your hair or your height. As you can imagine, that's kind of a big deal and they go on to describe how this machine could go on to benefit mankind greatly. Instantly, my enthusiasm for the protagonist plummeted. I could get over the fact that Knowles frankly didn't care about his daughter much, but the fact that he took a bunch of people and lead them to a dangerous place without letting them know what was really going on is pretty reprehensible, particularly when people are being attacked and die. The way the movie ends I also thought was particularly stupid. Apparently Big Foot is not just a wild animal, it's a sentient creature able to dodge bullets like the Flash, collects dead bodies and is able to read minds. I say this because it figures things out about our group of protagonists that there is no way it could understand. Yes they give an "explanation" in the movie but come on, really think about it and you'll realize it makes no sense.This movie feels like someone read a newspaper clipping from a trashy magazine and decided to investigate it. When they found the guy who had "witnessed" these events, they realized that the story was not particularly interesting or believable but decided that because it was "based on true events" it was good enough to actually make into a movie. This story could have used some senseless gore, dumb teenagers or even some atrocious dialogue to make it actually interesting. As is, it really feels like a waste of your time because as soon as the movie is over, your memories will have already started to fade. You won't even remember why you disliked it so much. I can't think of anyone, save maybe people who actually believe that sasquatch/yeti/abominable snowman is real that would enjoy this film. (On DVD, April 25, 2014)

Wuchak Hmm, How could I best describe 2003's "Sasquatch" (originally titled "The Untold")? If you can imagine a low budget version of both "The Edge" and "Predator," substituting a Bigfoot for the bear and alien, with some elements of "The Blair Witch Project" thrown in, you'd pretty much have "Sasquatch." The story involves a plane crash in Bigfoot territory and the group of people who search for the wreckage. As a matter of fact, the ENTIRE FILM takes place in the forest except for flashbacks, shot in British Columbia near Vancouver.I'm kind of a sucker for these types of crisis-in-the-woods stories, so I have to admit that I marginally liked "Sasquatch," especially since the tone is totally serious. The film is marred a bit by some strange directorial techniques; particularly the irritating overuse of the 'fade-to-black' technique. Moreover, some of the characters and dialogue come off unbelievable.On the plus side, the tone is serious and the filmmakers throw in a literal 'babe in the woods'; and, yes, she does have a nude hotspring scene (not that you see much, so don't get too excited), but the character's too much of a biyatch to be appealing and the actress, Andrea Roth, isn't THAT attractive anyway, at least not to me (the older woman who plays Nikki is actually more of a babe). Lance Henriksen is always good, of course; and some of the BC locations are quite scenic. I also liked the ending as it was more profound and moving than anticipated, but there's too much marking time; the film could've easily been cut by 15 minutes.But, you ask, what about the appearance of the creature? In other words, is the 'payoff' any good? I kinda liked what they came up with, although it appears as if one of the beast's ancestors mated with Ben Franklin. Just joking; it's not the conventional look of the creature, but it's pretty cool.This is not a great bigfoot flick; it's not even very good. In fact, it's one of the lesser recent SyFy films on Sassy (discounting the abysmal "Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon" and that one with 'Greg' from The Brady Bunch and that other guy from The Partridge Family). But if you're a fan of the creature or a sucker for these types of stories, "Sasquatch" is mandatory.The film runs 86 minutes.Here's how I rate the various bigfoot flicks since the new millennium (see my reviews of each for details):"Sasquatch Mountain" (2006): A- "Sasquatch Hunters" (2005): B+"Abominable" (2006): B"Snowbeast" (2011): B- "Clawed" (2005): C+ "Sasquatch" (2003): C"Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon" (2008): F

swedzin The Untold... Is one of the worst films I ever saw. The story really seems original, but it was badly bestow on screen. Lance Henriksen, a good actor, ended up in this crap. But, hey he made a lot of low budget films... you need to pay the bills, you know? Kidding. Lance is a great actor, but he ended up with this bunch of silly actors. Seriously, Andrea Roth was there just to have a nudity scene, and other actors... well they were just there. There was constantly a fade out-fade in editing, and that makes me sick! That was the most horrible move that just keeps on coming and it really makes you angry. It was also very predictable, boring and slow. It has a bizarre tempo that goes just... wrong.Can't say more... don't rent it, or buy it. You can watch it, if on TV.

crazylegsmurphy Hey all, I just wanted to give you all a few crazy facts about this movie. I was actually one of the Make-up FX artists that help create the "beast" for this movie and I have to tell you the original creature looked absolutely amazing. I remember when we got the first photos back from the set we were all talking about how much of a shame it was that this creature was in a movie that would probably be pretty poor.What actually happened though was that Jason Palmer did the original make-up for the Sasquatch, but for some reason they had to go back and re-shoot much of the creature. The sad part was that Jason passed away a few weeks before that and so the re-done creature was no where near as awesome as the original one.For me it was quite sad because this was Jasons final movie, and he sort of got cheated out of his final fame due to the bad re-shoots. Anyway, I thought you guys may find that a tad interesing, and if you would like you can head over to mmmyeah.com and check out some "behind the scenes" photos.Later, Jeff