Review of Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes

Bigfoot, found footage, what could go wrong? Actually those two titles could be enough to put you off but this is a great little film worth a watch. Starting out it appears to be a comedy with some nice back and forth dialogue between characters. In fact it doesn't really get started as a horror until some way into the running time. Blink and you miss it figures, shadows, eyes. The audience is presented with a standard Bigfoot movie, is it a hoax or not? The lead is consistently sceptical against all the events and evidence presented to him. The audience is led to anticipate the relish of his realisation of the truth when it comes, but when it does, it's the audience that have been wrong footed, it's not a Bigfoot movie at all! In getting to that point we do have to sit through the standard frat boy nonsense that seems to be regulation in American horrors, people behave stupidly, overreact, shout a lot etc. etc. But it's all very well made and a cut above the usual Asylum level dross that gets put out. The ending? It all gets very Evil Dead, doesn't it? My take on it is that the hooves belong to the Lovecraftian Goat of a Thousand Young. So adding an element of cosmic horror to all the chaos.