The Bigfoot Trap

This was not what I expected. Instead of a psycho horror/creature feature, it's more of an examination of a journalist's motives and a man's (Red) need to make a living. What people believe and whether to profit from their beliefs, no matter how crazy, leads to one bad decision after another, until three people are dead. At the end, you are left wondering whether there ever was a. Bigfoot or was it all a hoax? Did Red really believe or is it a case of convincing yourself if you believe in something hard enough, it will come true. Don't ignore this as a low budget creature movie and look beyond to the examination of hope, journalism and profitting off someone's beliefs. To paraphrase Red, you can't see God but believe in Him, so why can't Bigfoot exist?

More of a crime film, than it is a horror. The Bigfoot Trap tells the story of a tabloid social media journalist, who heads out to rural America, to interview a man that has set out to trap the world's first sasquatch. Unfortunately for him, the man has done a little investigating of his own...and is privy to the journalist's reputation in the online world. So, he and his best friend plan to scare this Ryan Gosling lookalike, into thinking the creature is actually real. However, things go south...when he ends up shooting the man's best friend, out of fear. Killing him. Which leads to his confinement in the bigfoot trap, as punishment. With one thing leading to another...and things getting progressively worse as the film plods on. The whole thing is super low budget. But it's an effective little crime film. Which probably explains why Showtime ended up distributing it. It's super simple. But has a bit of cult vibe to it. And acts as further proof that even the worst bigfoot themed films can be entertaining. 4 out of 10.

More of a crime film, than it is a horror. The Bigfoot Trap tells the story of a tabloid social media journalist, who heads out to rural America, to interview a man that has set out to trap the world's first sasquatch. Unfortunately, the man has done a little investigating of his own...and knows his reputation. So, he and his best friend plan to scare the (ugly version of a) Ryan Gosling lookalike, into thinking the creature is actually real. However, things go south...when he ends up shooting his best friend, out of fear. Killing him. Which leads the man to confine the journalist in the bigfoot trap, as punishment. With one thing leading to another...and things getting progressively worse as the film plods on. The whole thing is super low budget. But, honestly, it's an effective little crime film. Which probably explains why Showtime ended up distributing it. It's super simple. But has a bit of cult vibe to it. Further proof that even the worst bigfoot themed films can be entertaining. 4 out of 10.

Thankfully this was free for me and I was doing some real work while it was in the background. Strange person who does indy journalism hunts out alternative beliefs to mock them, cockroachboss then leads to the bigfoot trap guy. So the protag then proceeds to get into trouble and the bigfoot guy also does and it's just more nonsense from there, not entertaing too much really. Where this was going was easy to see, so protag comes out all right and turns into a bigfoot hunter himself after seeing and escaping BF. This was pretty annoying to watch really, almost all the cliches that the advertiserwhore hack industry known as journalism uses to enforce thier lying narrative and their TRANNYformer satanicults objectives. This tribe owned, staffed and operated images industry just pushes out so much garbage it's overwhelming, at least the literal circus takes some real dedication and skill, this sort of stuff is just above your typical demo reel.

The Bigfoot trap is located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon. It was built by the North American Wildlife Research Team (NAWRT) and in six years, all it caught was bears. Today, the trap has been fixed and is maintained by the United States Forest Service as a tourist attraction. It's a wooden box -- ten feet by ten feet -- made of planks that are bound together with metal and secured by telephone poles. Josh MacMahon (Tyler Weisenauer) makes a video for the new site he's working on where he makes light of flat earth conspiracy theorists. He goes viral and now he has to go after every other weird theory. His next target is Red Wilson (Zach Lazar Hoffman) and the Southern Sasquatch Research Foundation. It has one other member, Kyle (Andy Kanies). Things don't go as well. Red knows Josh's plan of making him look like a moron all while the would-be serious journalist is morally conflicted about doing exactly that. And then Josh accidentally shoots Kyle and ends up in, well, the Bigfoot trap. Director and writer Aaron Mirtes (American Hunt, The Alpha Test) plays with your feelings -- if you have negative Squatcher feelings, but not me, I'm a believer, I saw that one in a cooler outside a K-Mart when I was little -- and makes you consider whose side you're on before all that drama turns into the actual scares. It's not perfect, but there are some great moments of character in this.