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3.0 out of 5 stars
"I Know Tracks Like The FBI Knows Fingerprints.",
This review is from: The Legend of Bigfoot (1976) (DVD)
"The Legend of Bigfoot" is a hilarious look at the tracking of the elusive creature during an epic trek across the great white north. The film features footage by Ivan Marx (and his wife), a wildlife tracker who seeks to find bigfoot, and presents this laughable spectacle as incontrovertible proof of the Sasquatch. The entire film is narrated by Marx, and largely consists of wildlife footage of animals like deer, bears, skunks, and chipmunks, with a few alleged bandy-legged bigfoot shots slipped in for good measure. He even illustrates his home life with footage of a coyote cub versus kitten versus chicken versus skunk confrontation in his front yard.
Marx specializes in finding "renegade animals," and after an Indian folklore subplot, he shows us tracks and hair of a bigfoot. He solicits bigfoot information from the locals and receives some hilarious photos of "bigfoot" complete with red glowing eyes. He goes into the woods and promptly sights a bigfoot and notes that "a nauseating, musky odor made it difficult to breathe." After seeing this film you'll understand how he felt. There are countless shots of Marx running through the woods to find the creature, then to get away from it. I cannot imagine why scientists rejected this "evidence" that he gathered. Since Marx saw a bigfoot close to his home, he, logically, decides to go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the coast of Oregon, and to the arctic circle (where Marx assures us that bigfoot breeds) seeking bigfoot, because he believes that bigfoot is a migratory creature. Early in his trek (about 30 minutes into the film) Marx tastelessly shows the majesty of nature by showing a mating pair of squirrels, one of which gets squashed by a car. Why Marx put this into the film I have no clue, but it's genuinely disturbing as the surviving mate is shown dragging the corpse back across the road toward its nest. This scene goes on for a long, long time and I was genuinely repulsed by it. It was too bad the animal was killed; that Marx thought he needed to show it so graphically and extensively is tasteless and abhorrent. During the remainder of the movie we learn a lot of interesting facts about bigfoot. For instance, did you know that when a migrating bigfoot passes a flock of goats the goats "commit ritual suicide" by eating cement? (I am not making this up.) Did you know that bigfoot will carry other dead bigfoots (bigfeet?) thousands of miles to above the arctic circle to dump the bodies in crevasses where the movement of the glaciers crush the remains or dump them into the sea? (My first reaction to that information was to ponder that if bigfoot was a solitary creature, how did another bigfoot know when and where a fellow bigfoot died so as to retrieve the body?) Did you know that if you died in the arctic a bigfoot patrol would recover your body and dump it on the outskirts of the nearest town to afford you a proper burial? Did you know that bigfoot is immune to tuberculosis and measles? (No information is provided about mange, I'm sorry to report.) All these and other facts are presented here for your consideration and laughter. Marx certainly has rigorous standards for accepting evidence: for example, we meet "Yukon Frieda" who paints pictures of bigfoot as described to her. Surely that must withstand the scientific method! Marx then goes on to describe how the mother of an old Indian died and that night they awakened to find a bigfoot at the front door chanting in his mother's voice telling them to leave the cabin. They did and later a glacier changed the course of a river, flooding the village. Thank goodness that bigfoot is so easily to channel. Another Indian tells a wholly lucid (not!) story of how he was out with his sled dogs and the angry bigfoot tribe turned the sky red with blood, while a good bigfoot spirit became the "legendary white raven" and protected him. (Apparently the peyote is very strong in that area.) Just then the Indian and Marx see the "legendary white raven", which Marx helpfully shows us. (It appears to be a blurry Polaroid of a seagull.) The Indian says that the appearance of the good raven means that the bigfoot likes Marx, and he teaches Marx a chant with drum accompaniment that will summon bigfoot during a full moon if Marx is in the wilderness. Marx said "I felt as if I was coming apart at the seams." I believe that he was, though not perhaps in the manner intended, as he said that after he did the chant he saw two glowing lights in the distance that at first looked like car lights, but must have been bigfoot's glowing eyes! To illustrate this, we see what appear to actually be car lights about two miles distant. Unfortunately, when he went to investigate, dawn broke and the lights disappeared behind a rainbow (!) making him feel quite disappointed. He then decided to go for a walk by himself (though someone else filmed it), and he saw some caribou. He then deduced that (get ready for a good one...) the lights he saw were actually caribou scraping velvet off their antlers, releasing swamp gas from the tundra which glowed in the night.(So bigfoot is actually glowing swamp gas?) It's a strange but hilarious ending to the glowing eyes story. After a huge amount time spent on the technicalities of moose breeding (which Marx claims nobody had ever witnessed before him) and salmon spawning, Marx decides to rent a plane. Almost immediately they spot a "young bigfoot" by a river, though when they land, he's gone. (Isn't that always the way it goes?) Marx then has a brilliant insight. Given the coordinates of this bigfoot, he can predict that the next destination for the bigfoot will be a beaver swamp, so Marx goes to one and sets up a bigfoot blind to hide in. It doesn't take long, of course, until a couple of bigfoots show up. He claims that it was before dawn, but from the lighting appears to have been around noon. He remarks "His odor was overwhelming!" (make your own joke here), and launches into pontification on how bigfoot is a nocturnal "benevolent creature" who eats "tender swamp grass", and he is definitely not a carnivore. He concludes with the thought that he now had incontrovertible proof and that "now we can begin to understand the place this creature holds in nature." Never mind that the creatures look more like George Barrows in a gorilla costume or even Teen Ape than a Sasquatch, this movie is captivating in it's own peculiar way. It has long stretches of extreme boredom while listening to Marx bring forth homespun homilies about nature and such, but it has moments of inspired, though unintentional, hilarity. Unfortunately it also has the squirrel crushing scene, which made me remove a full two stars from its rating for tastelessness; otherwise this film would have scored a perfect five stars for camp value. It will definitely not make a believer out of a skeptic, and probably won't even reinforce the opinions of genuine believers for that matter, but for pure pretentiousness, ludicrous plotpoints, and sheer camp value "The Legend of Bigfoot" is a must see for any fan of grade-Z cinema.
1.0 out of 5 stars
god-awful,
By Nom de plume "nom de plume" (saginaw, michigan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Legend of Bigfoot (1976) (DVD)
This is perhaps the worst "movie" I have seen. It looks and sounds like one of those really bad old Disney shows about some kid's cat that gets lost or something along those lines. If you like to see cats chase rabbits and other embarrassingly obvious filler-clips, you'll like this. The narrator adopts (hopefully) a corn-pone accent that is supposed to be homey and trustworthy. But, by golly, I jes' cain't brung my ownself to finish up on watchin' this ole feller.
3.0 out of 5 stars
"I Know Tracks Like The FBI Knows Fingerprints.",
This review is from: The Legend of Bigfoot (VHS Tape)
"The Legend of Bigfoot" is a hilarious look at the tracking of the elusive creature during an epic trek across the great white north. The film features footage by Ivan Marx (and his wife), a wildlife tracker who seeks to find bigfoot, and presents this laughable spectacle as incontrovertible proof of the Sasquatch. The entire film is narrated by Marx, and largely consists of wildlife footage of animals like deer, bears, skunks, and chipmunks, with a few alleged bandy-legged bigfoot shots slipped in for good measure. He even illustrates his home life with footage of a coyote cub versus kitten versus chicken versus skunk confrontation in his front yard.
Marx specializes in finding "renegade animals," and after an Indian folklore subplot, he shows us tracks and hair of a bigfoot. He solicits bigfoot information from the locals and receives some hilarious photos of "bigfoot" complete with red glowing eyes. He goes into the woods and promptly sights a bigfoot and notes that "a nauseating, musky odor made it difficult to breathe." After seeing this film you'll understand how he felt. There are countless shots of Marx running through the woods to find the creature, then to get away from it. I cannot imagine why scientists rejected this "evidence" that he gathered. Since Marx saw a bigfoot close to his home, he, logically, decides to go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the coast of Oregon, and to the arctic circle (where Marx assures us that bigfoot breeds) seeking bigfoot, because he believes that bigfoot is a migratory creature. Early in his trek (about 30 minutes into the film) Marx tastelessly shows the majesty of nature by showing a mating pair of squirrels, one of which gets squashed by a car. Why Marx put this into the film I have no clue, but it's genuinely disturbing as the surviving mate is shown dragging the corpse back across the road toward its nest. This scene goes on for a long, long time and I was genuinely repulsed by it. It was too bad the animal was killed; that Marx thought he needed to show it so graphically and extensively is tasteless and abhorrent. During the remainder of the movie we learn a lot of interesting facts about bigfoot. For instance, did you know that when a migrating bigfoot passes a flock of goats the goats "commit ritual suicide" by eating cement? (I am not making this up.) Did you know that bigfoot will carry other dead bigfoots (bigfeet?) thousands of miles to above the arctic circle to dump the bodies in crevasses where the movement of the glaciers crush the remains or dump them into the sea? (My first reaction to that information was to ponder that if bigfoot was a solitary creature, how did another bigfoot know when and where a fellow bigfoot died so as to retrieve the body?) Did you know that if you died in the arctic a bigfoot patrol would recover your body and dump it on the outskirts of the nearest town to afford you a proper burial? Did you know that bigfoot is immune to tuberculosis and measles? (No information is provided about mange, I'm sorry to report.) All these and other facts are presented here for your consideration and laughter. Marx certainly has rigorous standards for accepting evidence: for example, we meet "Yukon Frieda" who paints pictures of bigfoot as described to her. Surely that must withstand the scientific method! Marx then goes on to describe how the mother of an old Indian died and that night they awakened to find a bigfoot at the front door chanting in his mother's voice telling them to leave the cabin. They did and later a glacier changed the course of a river, flooding the village. Thank goodness that bigfoot is so easily to channel. Another Indian tells a wholly lucid (not!) story of how he was out with his sled dogs and the angry bigfoot tribe turned the sky red with blood, while a good bigfoot spirit became the "legendary white raven" and protected him. (Apparently the peyote is very strong in that area.) Just then the Indian and Marx see the "legendary white raven", which Marx helpfully shows us. (It appears to be a blurry Polaroid of a seagull.) The Indian says that the appearance of the good raven means that the bigfoot likes Marx, and he teaches Marx a chant with drum accompaniment that will summon bigfoot during a full moon if Marx is in the wilderness. Marx said "I felt as if I was coming apart at the seams." I believe that he was, though not perhaps in the manner intended, as he said that after he did the chant he saw two glowing lights in the distance that at first looked like car lights, but must have been bigfoot's glowing eyes! To illustrate this, we see what appear to actually be car lights about two miles distant. Unfortunately, when he went to investigate, dawn broke and the lights disappeared behind a rainbow (!) making him feel quite disappointed. He then decided to go for a walk by himself (though someone else filmed it), and he saw some caribou. He then deduced that (get ready for a good one...) the lights he saw were actually caribou scraping velvet off their antlers, releasing swamp gas from the tundra which glowed in the night.(So bigfoot is actually glowing swamp gas?) It's a strange but hilarious ending to the glowing eyes story. After a huge amount time spent on the technicalities of moose breeding (which Marx claims nobody had ever witnessed before him) and salmon spawning, Marx decides to rent a plane. Almost immediately they spot a "young bigfoot" by a river, though when they land, he's gone. (Isn't that always the way it goes?) Marx then has a brilliant insight. Given the coordinates of this bigfoot, he can predict that the next destination for the bigfoot will be a beaver swamp, so Marx goes to one and sets up a bigfoot blind to hide in. It doesn't take long, of course, until a couple of bigfoots show up. He claims that it was before dawn, but from the lighting appears to have been around noon. He remarks "His odor was overwhelming!" (make your own joke here), and launches into pontification on how bigfoot is a nocturnal "benevolent creature" who eats "tender swamp grass", and he is definitely not a carnivore. He concludes with the thought that he now had incontrovertible proof and that "now we can begin to understand the place this creature holds in nature." Never mind that the creatures look more like George Barrows in a gorilla costume or even Teen Ape than a Sasquatch, this movie is captivating in it's own peculiar way. It has long stretches of extreme boredom while listening to Marx bring forth homespun homilies about nature and such, but it has moments of inspired, though unintentional, hilarity. Unfortunately it also has the squirrel crushing scene, which made me remove a full two stars from its rating for tastelessness; otherwise this film would have scored a perfect five stars for camp value. It will definitely not make a believer out of a skeptic, and probably won't even reinforce the opinions of genuine believers for that matter, but for pure pretentiousness, ludicrous plotpoints, and sheer camp value "The Legend of Bigfoot" is a must see for any fan of grade-Z cinema.
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