Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon (the on screen title has no 'at' like the IMDb seems to think) starts as six assorted friends, enemies & lovers set out during Spring Break to spend a weekend in the woods at Jill's (Anna Bridgforth) parents log cabin. Joining Jill in no particular order are Danny (Gentry Ferrell), Stu (Johnny Ostensoe), Matt (Justin Alvarez), Bree (Melisa Breiner-Sanders) & Viv (Tammie Taylor). They talk about beer & sex & not much else, however out in the woods lives a creature similar to the Bigfoot of legend. A creature that kills on sight, as the teenagers are killed off one-by-one the survivors have to figure a way out to escape before they end up like their buddies...
Co-edited, executive produced, co-written, produced & directed by John Poague who even has a role in the film as a Hermitt one has to say that I was not that impressed by Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon, in fact I would go as far as to say that I was deeply unimpressed by it. In principal I have nothing against low budget film-making which has produced some absolute genre classics like The Evil Dead (1981) but to me these days it just seems that anyone & everyone thinks that they can make their own horror film with a camcorder, a bit of fake blood, some teenage actors & a editing program on their PC which of course they can't. These people also seem to think that horror fans are gullible & will enjoy this sort of crap, well I'm telling them all now that even us low brow sicko horror film fans have standards to which for me Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon doesn't come anywhere near meeting. The script by Poague & Barbara Kymlicka is all about sticking to a budget rather than concerning itself with being good, all the hallmarks of low budget film-making is here with the isolated single location where the majority of the film is set, the small principal cast, the lack of gore or excitement, the idea that writing a sex scene into your film will somehow give it some exploitation credentials since whats cheaper than filming two people having sex & the lack of any special effects sequences or anything over a guy in a hairy suit. The teenage cast of character's are both clichéd & annoying, the lads think about sex & beer all the time while the girls just go along with them & it's pretty painful to watch. The pace is very slow, at almost 100 minutes virtually nothing happens for long stretches & it becomes incredibly hard to keep watching.
Director Poague films in the same way many low budget filmmakers do, without any style or flair since they can't afford much more than a single camera & one tripod. The special effects are pretty thin on the ground, there's a decapitated head, some mangled after the fact bodies & in the one & only proper gore moment someone has their head stepped on & crushed by the Bigfoot who obviously has big feet like his name would suggest. At the very end of this film after the credits have finished there's a strange piece of text that reads 'for distribution call....' which is odd, do the makers of this think someone sitting at home will be willing to distribute this? Maybe they would set up their own video company just to do that very thing!
With a supposed budget of about $200,000 this looks cheap & feels cheap because it is cheap. We never get a good look at the Bigfoot monster which is probably just as well. The acting sucks, I didn't like anyone & thats the truth.
Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon is a terrible no budget made in someones log cabin over the weekend type horror flick that anyone who has a camcorder think they can make & distribute. If your looking for a good killer Bigfoot film then go for Night of the Demon (1980) instead.
Co-edited, executive produced, co-written, produced & directed by John Poague who even has a role in the film as a Hermitt one has to say that I was not that impressed by Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon, in fact I would go as far as to say that I was deeply unimpressed by it. In principal I have nothing against low budget film-making which has produced some absolute genre classics like The Evil Dead (1981) but to me these days it just seems that anyone & everyone thinks that they can make their own horror film with a camcorder, a bit of fake blood, some teenage actors & a editing program on their PC which of course they can't. These people also seem to think that horror fans are gullible & will enjoy this sort of crap, well I'm telling them all now that even us low brow sicko horror film fans have standards to which for me Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon doesn't come anywhere near meeting. The script by Poague & Barbara Kymlicka is all about sticking to a budget rather than concerning itself with being good, all the hallmarks of low budget film-making is here with the isolated single location where the majority of the film is set, the small principal cast, the lack of gore or excitement, the idea that writing a sex scene into your film will somehow give it some exploitation credentials since whats cheaper than filming two people having sex & the lack of any special effects sequences or anything over a guy in a hairy suit. The teenage cast of character's are both clichéd & annoying, the lads think about sex & beer all the time while the girls just go along with them & it's pretty painful to watch. The pace is very slow, at almost 100 minutes virtually nothing happens for long stretches & it becomes incredibly hard to keep watching.
Director Poague films in the same way many low budget filmmakers do, without any style or flair since they can't afford much more than a single camera & one tripod. The special effects are pretty thin on the ground, there's a decapitated head, some mangled after the fact bodies & in the one & only proper gore moment someone has their head stepped on & crushed by the Bigfoot who obviously has big feet like his name would suggest. At the very end of this film after the credits have finished there's a strange piece of text that reads 'for distribution call....' which is odd, do the makers of this think someone sitting at home will be willing to distribute this? Maybe they would set up their own video company just to do that very thing!
With a supposed budget of about $200,000 this looks cheap & feels cheap because it is cheap. We never get a good look at the Bigfoot monster which is probably just as well. The acting sucks, I didn't like anyone & thats the truth.
Bigfoot Holler Creek Canyon is a terrible no budget made in someones log cabin over the weekend type horror flick that anyone who has a camcorder think they can make & distribute. If your looking for a good killer Bigfoot film then go for Night of the Demon (1980) instead.