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One of the Top Ten films of 1976

posted 17 years ago by Kammurabi
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Wow this was great. I am surprised it got such a low rating.

For a documentary, this film was ahead of its time. It is hard to describe, but an odd effect descends upon the viewer when watching this movie. You get pulled into a different sort of reality than has ever been portrayed on screen before.

There are several scenes of sublime inspiration...including the random direction changes like when the squirrel gets run over by the car and the squirrel's friend comes over to check on him and then drags him off the road. Unbelievable. I'd never seen anything like that before....and who could have seen that coming in a bigfoot movie?

Apart from the 15 minutes or so that dragged a bit (about 2/3 through), I find little to complain about in this film. Whether you believe the bigfoot tracker or not, it is rather convincing in several areas. Except for the part where the ghost of the dead bigfoot being able to turn the night sky red.

Most of the rest of this film was done in quite a convincing, effective and endearing fashion.

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[–] Woodyanders 17 years ago

I found this film to be quite enjoyable. Ivan Marx comes across as a very colorful, funny and engagingly flaky guy. Alas, the late Mr. Marx was widely ridiculed as a total phony by many experts in the field of Bigfoot research.

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[–] tk_sassy 15 years ago

I felt like I was watching a Grizzly Adams episode. This film is seriously brilliant... full of eyecatching beauty.

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