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Trailer question

posted 18 years ago by b.shortridge
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Many moons ago (late 70s or even early 80s) I saw a trailer for a bigfoot movie - at least part of which consisted of a young (Native American?) child running and looking back over his shoulder at something very big chasing him (camera was the bigfoot's point-of-view). So...my question is, is this that particular movie. Trailer scared the heck out of me when young ... but I never saw the movie it advertised.
Does anyone know if the trailer I described (apologies for bitsy recollection) fits this film? Thanks in advance.

[–] b.shortridge 18 years ago

Oops. I should have read ahead further. The topic headed "missing scenes" mentions this chase. Thanks.

[–] pacheco_25553 18 years ago

I remember the trailer and yes, it is for this movie. However, when I saw the movie in theater, the scene was missing.

[–] Fluke_Skywalker 18 years ago

I don't remember much about the movie (Don't even know if I've seen it), but that trailer scared the crap out of me too when I was a kid! I would run from the room when the commercials for it came on.

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[–] mikey8052 18 years ago

What i would give to see that commercial again.

[–] chkntix 17 years ago

Check out trailer for Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot on youtube courtesy of "AV Geeks".

I just ran across it the other day...

[–] mikey8052 17 years ago

Still no indian boy, damn.

[–] SugarBugFerret 17 years ago

That is my uncle playing the smart alek photographer! I remember first seeing this film as a child, not in the theater, but in my grandparents' living room with a borrowed reel to reel projector on a portable screen. My uncle always told me that they put a tootsie roll in his shirt collar in order to film the scene where he gets attacked by a bear and hurts his arm. Great memories!!!

[–] silentxerox 17 years ago

yeah, that trailer and the one for "Magic" always freaked me out.

[–] Eric-62-2 17 years ago

I always found the TV spot where we see Jessup discovering his camp destroyed more scary than the Indian boy looking up and running in a panic. In the Jessup spot, we see him finding his camp destroyed and then we see from Bigfoot's POV marching toward Jessup who is still looking down at the ground at his destroyed camp, and then suddenly when the shadow falls over him, he starts to look up and then you hear that eerie sounding roar they used for the ceature, freeze-frame end of spot. A nice indicator of how even cheaply staged effects can sometimes be a lot more effective than all the CGI splatter and gore a big budget film can do!

[–] DarkPhoenixxxxx 14 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ju2wm0dzM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068837/

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