Suburban Sasquatch (2004)
- written February 2007
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Summary: Bloodthirsty and pissed off, the Suburban Sasquatch arises from the dark depths of the forest wreaking carnage on a small suburban town! Rick, the local independent reporter knows what the monster is capable of. Only the beautiful Talla has the training to battle the creature. Will the town be savagely destroyed before they can stop the Suburban Sasquatch? (taken from dvd cover)
Overall: My first rule of indie, no-budget horror films...if you can’t afford good effects, don’t use bad ones! Bottom line...bad effects only take away from credibility and enjoyability of your product. If your effects look like crap, so will your movie. I’m sure everyone on this film had tons of fun, had a great time, enjoyed their film. None of that makes for a good movie however. And this film isn’t remotely good. The film is painfully long at 100 minutes already but worse than that is constantly changing in size that our monster does. It’s beyond obvious that it’s someone in a mutated gorilla outfit but at times, our monster appears to be around like 6 feet tall and other scenes he’s probably 8 feet tall (since he’s clearly standing on top of a box or something). And one scene he gets snagged in a giant net...which is computer generated and looks like it too! But really the film fails with its effects as we see limbs ripped off (via CGI) only to see the real life limbs still intact. It’s so painful to watch these cheesy,. Campy effects that just don’t work. It takes away from any fun this movie might have been and bottom line, flat out looks like money thrown away...wasted. Even the birds in one scene are fake! But not all is lost. Gotta enjoy Miss Sanchez in the role of Talla. She spend much of the movie wearing all white...the outfits tight, the skirts, short (and in one scene a little too short). She looks like she’s the only one who has a clue on what’s going and she pulls off the fact that her bow and arrow shoots CGI arrows, quite well actually. Such a shame nothing else in the movie works. Comparison: Legend of BigFoot meets The Prophecy |
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