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Big Foot
[World Video Pictures]
1971; color
Directed by Robert Slatzer
Starring: John Carradine, Joi Lansing, John Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum, Joy Wilkerson, Lindsay Crosby & Ken Maynard
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We've reviewed our share of giant monkey movies here at the Buffet but I believe this may be the first to feature the legendary Sasquatch creature. Or rather, creatures. And by Sasquatch creatures I mean men wearing funny face makeup and costumes that appear to be the inspiration behind Chris' use of human hair in the collection that got him sent home from Project Runway last week. (I'm still rooting for Christian to win by the way. I do think he uses the word fierce way too much but, by the same token, I love the fact that he's brought the phrase tranny mess into mainstream culture.) To get back to the movie though, I learned of this film via the "Mitchum The Mean Machine" segment included in Ricco The Mean Machine's DVD package. Christopher Mitchum made this movie seem like a bit of tranny mess, and mentioned in his interview it was a movie featuring him playing a biker who has to face off with a Sasquatch looking to score with his old lady. Which, in turn, sent the Kommandant straight to the internet to track down a copy. (I've told you all about his quest to see every bad movie ever made already, right?) With all due respect, I think it's fair to say people are not exactly clamoring to release the collected works of the Mitchum family as a whole on DVD. Nonetheless he was able to find a slightly dusty slightly used VHS copy on eBay for 99 cents and bid on it. Shockingly no war ensued and, lo and behold, the video showed up here Saturday afternoon. So of course I volunteered to watch it with him Saturday night. (Even though I knew better!) In retrospect, it was no Ricco The Mean Machine but, really, what is. Big Foot features not one but two Mitchums (and, as you may have guessed, neither of them is Robert - aka the most famous Mitchum) as well as BMB fave John Carradine; the aforementioned people that totally look nothing like Big Foot-esque creatures and are not even remotely threatening; and even a blond, bouffant-ed Haji who has a small part as one of the biker chicks. Other than that it's distinctions are few and far between. But that's not to say the movie isn't without it's charms... I can't exactly pinpoint what they are at the moment but I'm sure they were in there somewhere.
—Bunny
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