Follow the Giant Footprints to These 8 Superior Bigfoot Movies

You do n’t have to venture too deep into the Hollywood forest to finda crummy take on Bigfoot . But the haired cryptid has also appeared in several projects that are in reality worth find out . With Laika ’s stop - motion filmMissing Linkout this week , it seemed like just the minute to observe eight of Sasquatch ’s biggest screen triumphs .

1. Harry and the Hendersons

Heading home from a camping head trip , a Seattle family ( formed by the same mold that create about every comedy - motion-picture show home in the 1980s ; John Lithgow plays the nerdy dada ) accidentally slam into a Sasquatch — but the creature is n’t dead , and once it rouse in the Hendersons ’ home it ’s just as startled as they are . It soon becomes clear that Harry , as he comes to be known , is no fearsome monster , though he does become a fair game of both media scrutiny and one particularly awe-inspiring Bigfoot hunter as he fumbles his way around civilization , eventually find a glad ending that allowed the movie to segue into a dead - live TV series . Special effects make - up champion Rick Baker won one of his seven Oscars for bringing the movie ’s gentle beast to liveliness .

2. The Abominable Snowman

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Also known by the more specific title The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas , this Hammer production starsPeter Cushingas a scientist who sets aside his botanical hostile expedition when he meets a team of IE led by an unscrupulous physician played by Forrest Tucker . Their objective : to find the mythological Yeti , though as these things incline to go in Bigfoot picture , the Yeti are none too thrilled at having their high - altitude hideout invaded , and violence ensues .

Fortunately , Cushing ’s character reference realizes that — much like the Hendersons ’ hulking buddy — these Snowmen really are n’t so detestable , though they ’re intelligibly not sports fan of human beings . Seeing as how this movie was made in 1957 , and manager Val Guest did n’t have the benefit of Rick Baker - level effects , the Yeti are let on very selectively ( an arm here , a duad of deplorable optic there ) , a wise choice that lends a bit more suspense to this creature feature article .

Letters From the Big Man.

Letters From the Big Man.Image: SnagFilms

3. Bigfoot

give Bigfoot ’s rise to pop - cultivation bulge in the 1970s , this list had to comprise at least one exploitation movie from the earned run average , and Bigfoot is the obvious selection . To be clear , this is n’t a gamy - artwork chef-d’oeuvre , but for the Sasquatch enthusiast who also craves dynamite - tossing bikers , bikinis , freak shows , and the kind of yield values only a B - movie can provide , this low - budget indie ticks every box seat .

The creatures themselves , who issue from the Mrs. Henry Wood with unsavoury plans to kidnap human female person , very strongly resemble average - sized citizenry ( carefully filmed from low angles ) dressed in piece of ass - carpet footie pajama . But you ca n’t hate on Bigfoot too much — this is a movie that wants to entertain you while gently ripping off King Kong , and has a bonkers project that let in pin - up model Joi Lansing , Lindsay ( boy of Bing ) Crosby , John ( brother of Robert ) Mitchum , and acting legend John Carradine .

4. Exists

Exists was made byThe Blair Witch Project co - director Eduardo Sánchez , and like that moving-picture show , it ’s a found - footage revulsion tale about television camera - toting young people who guide into serious hassle deep in the wild . Unlike the Blair Witch kids , however , the characters in Exists do n’t set out in search of anything spooky ; rather , their blowy jaunt to an separated cabin ( where there ’s no cubicle service , no GPS , and oh yeah , nobody know they ’re staying there ) hold a mortal turn when they realize there ’s a large , hairy , unfriendly neighbour lurking in the woods .

The canonical story fall out the structure of your standard backwoods horror picture , where clueless city folk pay the price for piss off the locals — except in this case , it’san furious Sasquatchrather than an inbred fellowship or a machete - swinging slayer . circle of familiar shrieking and wonky - Cam River in this one , but unlike Blair Witch you do actually get some glimpses of the lusus naturae .

5. Willow Creek

feel - footage Bigfoot movie Willow Creek come out in 2013 , a class before Exists , signalize a mini trend that ’s perhaps due to the concurrent popularity of semi - serious TV serial likeFinding BigfootandKilling Bigfoot . Willow Creek is conduct by Bobcat Goldthwait , who ’s still probably best - known as a comic but has place several features and also created the IFC repugnance anthology seriesMisfits & Monsters .

Unlike the ill-fated 20 - somethings in Exists , the two main lineament in Goldthwait ’s film — who are really likable multitude ; he ’s a Bigfoot fanatic , she ’s a skeptic who ’s humoring her swain — oral sex to a Sasquatch mecca ( roughly the web site where the Patterson - Gimlin film was taken ; see below for more on that ) specifically to await for the big B. What starts off as a lighthearted journey soon claim a sorry go , and it all make to an protracted scene in which the petrified duo hide in their tent while something prowl around their campsite . In 2013,Goldthwait tell IndieWirethat one of the movies he had in mind while pull in Willow Creek was Grizzly Man — an unexpected but double-dyed reference point for maximum terror .

6. Letters From the Big Man

Lily Rabe ( American Horror Story ) plays a Forest Service employee who purposefully read a lonely assigning while she recovers from a bad interruption - up . And while she does run into Bigfoot during her time in the trees , alphabetic character From the Big Man does n’t jeopardize down the revulsion path at all . Beautiful cinematography , a striking chamber - music sexual conquest , and Rabe ’s sensitive carrying into action — not to note the portrayal of Sasquatch as a paying attention creature who very belike has sure magical powers that helped keep him hidden over the year — lift this enliven tale into uncharted Bigfoot - motion-picture show turf . As is befitting Bigfoot ’s comportment as a sympathetic role in the flick , the “ Big Man ” costume ( get into by the 6’5″ Isaac C. Singleton Jr. ) is unusually detailed and realistic … or at least as realistic as one could opine a Bigfoot costume could be .

7. Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

talk of Bigfoots you ’d actually want to hang out with … when Jack Black ’s rocker character J.B. collation on some psychedelic mushrooms , he trips the swooning fantastic into a Sid and Marty Krofft - esque land where the very jolly Sasquatch ( play by John C. Reilly , who also toy Sasquatch when he appeared on the Tenacious D TV show ) inhabit . After J.B. transubstantiate into Sasquatch ’s boy , “ Baby Sass , ” the pair blow down a strawberry river and surge through the sky , as the film cuts off to ( uproariously ) prompt us that J.B. is rampage through existent dangerous dark forest , all out of his fountainhead . There ’s even a song : “ Look into the Sasquatch eye , then you love that Sass can fly , Sasquatch is my Daddy and he ’s move to protect me ! ” It ends badly but not tragically , and even though Sasquatch is a full hallucination , he ’s still pretty all-fired memorable .

8. Patterson-Gimlin film

ThePatterson - Gimlin film — the famous 1967 16 mm movie shoot in rural Northern California that purports to show you - know - who striding through the untamed — is to Bigfoot fan what the Zapruder footage is toKennedy assassination cabal theorists . It ’s been studied and dissected from nearly every slant , but nobody ’s ever been able to evidence if it ’s just someone assume a Gorilla gorilla suit … in a film shot by guys who were already pondering the idea of making a Bigfoot movie … or the real deal . Roger Patterson exit in 1972 and Bob Gimlin is push 90 ; neither ever allow in to faking the footage . Why would they ?

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