Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch (2005)

Very best movie i ever watch

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

So, I just spent 84 minutes of my life watching "Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch" And, Yeah...I wouldn't mind getting that time back.Now, I found this movie in a bargain bin at a local pawn shop for $3.00. Knowing that, you can understand why I wasn't expecting much. I, at least, figured it may be worth the time of putting it in the DVD player.Any of you who know me, or read any of the old wetmutt horrorcast articles would know that I am a huge cheesy movie fan. Especially cheesy horror movies. I think of horror movies as an art form all their own. Something about the low barrier of entry for filmmakers with horror movies really makes for great movies. Anyways, back to the film.The story is virtually non-existent. Much like a snuff film. They have points A, B & C in the script & didn't seem to care how they get from A to B to C. The story seems like it must have been an afterthought.The camera work wasn't bad, but there were some interlace & artifacting problems. Suggesting that the camera was not your high end model & the editing system had some rendering problems. There was even a transition in the middle of the movie that was very plain and "home-movie" like. It was your typical wipe where both shots are on screen at the same time at one point.The "Bigfoot Vision" was mediocre at best. A simple sepia overlay with ZERO contrast. Leaving all shadows grey & washed out. While on the subject of the "Bigfoot Vision", I want to make a point that Bigfoot seemed like a pervert, spying on teenagers while they sleep or even taking a leak!The death scenes were terrible. Every one of them the same. Bigfoot vision creeping up on the unsuspecting victim, followed be a quick cutaway to some unrelated part of the woods, a scream, then a bloody (sort of) body. And not that good of a bloody body. The dead bodies seemed like another afterthought. Which is amazing to me since the movie has an R rating, but shows no death scenes and very VERY little blood. Sadly, some of the people you wanted to die...didn't.My overall rating of Clawed: The Legend of the Sasquatch is a 3.5. Replayability is NIL. I will only watch this movie ONE MORE TIME. That will be for a vidcast review with Mikal & KC (coming soon).The people who made this movie had some of the Sasquatch myths correct, from throwing large rocks at camp sites to having the ability to teleport. But they broke the cardinal horror movie rule...If you see a girls stuff in the film...her character CANNOT survive!

"The Unknown " is not a particularly appropriate title for the movie as any experienced creature feature viewer will pretty much know what to expect virtually as soon as it starts .The set up involves a legend surrounding Echo Mountain where a mysterious Big Foot type creature is said to walk .The creature ambushes and slays most members of a small hunting party .This prompts the surviving member of the group to set up a revenge mission with some of his buddies ,to the displeasure of the local law .Also stumbling around on the mountain are a quartet of high school students seeking material for the term project on Endangered species ,and a Native American ranger The budget is obviously shoestring in nature but the director is able to disguise this by judicious camera angles and cutting .The creature is pretty convincing however and this does help .Variable acting and a rushed conclusion are downsides but if you approach this in the right frame of mind it is moderately satisfying and unpretentious movie making

This movie has really nothing original in. Its harry meet the hendersons gone bad. Miles o keef as the big hunter bad guy, spends more time to boss his mates around instead of going after the bad make-up beastParrallel to this hunter story there is a teen camp out movie. Here 4 students explore the big bad forest. Harry the hairy bigfoot meets them about 3 times without doing anything. Also the bigfoot nicely poses for the video8 camcorder.While writing this review the movie suddenly ended. No bigfoot was killed no animals hurt. even the Indian escaped with no meaning to the movieAs sadly this may be without any bloody killing, this cannot be classed as horror.My final comment: Waste of time

After viewing this I was amazed at the previous review. I am an avid movie viewer and have seen my share of bad films, but this one seems to top my list. First the movie starts out with a group of guys hunting and then being slaughtered, by Taka Hei. OK, good start for a plot, but then the next thing you know, you are led through an introduction of characters always being angry at each other for no reason. Yelling and annoying you to death. Typical of a D movie, but I would say it deserves an F for forget it. If all this film was set out to do was present good makeup artistry, I would not have even bothered writing a review, but the mask that Bigfoot wore, was the worst I have seen. CG anyone?....that would have at least peaked my interest. The chase scenes were worse than anything. Slow motion chase scenes are over and done with. Please, to any other directors out there, No more chase scenes in slow mo!! OK...my ten lines are up. I have nothing more to say.