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It's nearly impossible to put into words how awful this movie truly is. The acting and dubbing is beyond laughable, it has the worst stock footage ever and barely has anything resembling a plot. The entire world in the film seems to operate without logic or reason. Somehow the kid, Paul, makes his way into the middle of the Sierra Nevada mountains after running away from boarding school because Bigfoot told him his dad was in danger. Paul is then picked up by a trucker who doesn't seem at all puzzled that a 10 year old is out there. Paul then proceeds to magically find his forest ranger dad walking around in the middle of the woods despite having no possible way of knowing where he would be, and his dad barely questions it. And that's just in the first ten minutes. The whole movie plays out like there wasn't even a script and instead the director made it up day to day. I'd recommend watching the MST3K version of this so there isn't any lasting mental scarring from the absolute mess assaulting the senses. The two people rating this movie an 8/10 and 7/10 either must've been involved in the production or actually had their sanity affected by this turd, because literally nothing in this movie is redeemable, save some nice shots of the California wilderness, and that's why it gets one star. This movie isn't healthy for children and other living things.

This movie was chosen as episode 2 of the reboot of MST3K for a reason. It's not even "so bad it's good", just plain bad.

The story doesn't go anywhere, I've seen better editing from the average 11 year old's YouTube video, the acting is seriously painful to watch, and the whole thing is just completely disjointed. It's like a fever dream from which you just can't wake up from.

The only thing that saved the movie was the MST3K riffing, some of the funniest (and edgiest!) I've heard. Do yourself a favour... if you MUST watch this schlock, watch the MST3K version.

I place this movie in my personal category of movies that cross into an area of unusually poor film-making, and in doing so, leave you unable to pull yourself away. Even telling friends, you have to see this movie because it is SO bad. I have to tell myself that this is the goal of those who make movies like this. I just can't honestly accept that someone wrote this, thought it was good, and was able to make the movie, with the honest intention of having it be good. So, if you are considering watching this movie, chances are it's because you've found it at a library, (I've never seen it in any video store), but if you have made the unfortunate decision to pay money to rent, or, heaven forbid, buy it, I suggest a healthy dose of your preferred inebriant and low expectations. REALLY low expectations.

From out of focus shots, to shots you couldn't connect with Legos, to acting so wooden you look for termites 🐜... This is BORING, plot less, and totally disjointed, with inadvertent time travel as the film constantly jumps from fall to winter (snow ❄ in one shot, gone in the next). A complete waste from start (at the world's worst museum) to finish (at a raccoon filled cabin) THIS is cinematic torture!

Upfront, I feel I need to say that I had never seen Cry Wilderness until it appeared in one of episodes of new MST3K. Regardless, I will be as objective as possible. I'm not one of those who thinks a movie is necessarily bad for appearing on MST3K. Some of the films on the show are actually very good and enjoyable on their own. Unfortunately, Cry Wilderness isn't one of them.

In short, Cry Wilderness is a mess of a movie. What little plot there is concerns an annoying little boy who receives a warning from Bigfoot that his father is in danger. This thin thread of a plot doesn't really hold the film together, however. The movie consists of a series of unrelated scenes haphazardly put together. The acting ranges from bad to downright atrocious. Continuity is non- existent. Characters go from one location to a completely different location in seconds. The mystical hokum of the old Native American and his band of animals is ridiculously presented. And Bigfoot is a disaster. The costume isn't even complete. On the positive side, there are some nice animal-in- nature type shots, but that's about it. Overall, a lowly 2/10 from me.

I saw this film years ago when it came to theaters for an extremely limited release. I remember the film so well because I won a door prize the day I viewed it. I watched the film with a theater full of young kids and even the kids didn't like it. Many slept and others just shook their young heads in disbelief. How could such a poor film be produced.

A Bigfoot-type creature befriends Paul, a young student. His father is a park ranger trying to capture an escaped tiger. Everyone in town is on edge and wants the tiger killed. David tries to keep Bigfoot a secret.

Maybe 3 is a little high to rate this film, but I don't feel right giving it a 1 or 2. Unlike some truly awful messes, it never suffers from the biggest sin a movie can make: boredom. The nonsense of the plot and background actually sort of helps. Coherent? No. But all the more entertaining.

What was most interesting to find out is that a couple of the actors involved have actually appeared in real, very successful films. How they were tricked into this (beyond the easy paycheck) is really beyond me.

Cry Wilderness is the kind of film that gets made because some writer / director had an idea that nobody else believed in (with good reason). Instead of waiting for a better idea, the script gets filmed on a shoestring budget. The minimal plot gets heavily padded by stock wilderness footage, which makes the constant changes in terrain (forest, scrubland, mountain) and season (snowy winter in one scene, bright greens of summer in the next) obvious to a bright three year old. Then there is the acting, which makes me wonder if the next door neighbor's kid and a few drinking buddies were assembled to round out the minimal cast. Then there is the Bigfoot costume, which looks like somebody took a set of hair clippers to a Chewbacca halloween costume and called it a day. Do not attempt to watch this without the cast of MST3K. Given a choice between watching this film and viewing your second cousin's home movies of a trip they took to Yellowstone back in 1978, pick the latter.

This movie appears in my nightmares. I wish so badly to go back to the time when I never saw this, but unfortunately I'm stuck with knowing it exists. It made me ask many questions: Who greenlit this monstrosity? What were they high on? Did they owe a favor to someone? Letting this dumpster fire become an actual movie should have resulted in criminal punishment. Jail time at the very least.

I thought it was a pretty good film, for a low budget type movie. Acting was pretty good. Morgan character was very intriguing. I am wondering if this couldn't have been a much better film, had their been a bigger budget. With that said, what Mr. Coehn had to work with was refreshing and very creative. The scenes were shot in extremely beautiful area of Ca. I think probably lack of funds for distribution, could be reason film didn't do so well. My hat's off to Mr. Schlochberg -Coehn. I really wish that it was easier to get a copy of this, but almost impossible to get. Maybe some sort of sequel could be made, even though so much time has gone by.

Cry Wilderness (1987)

* (out of 4)

Paul (Eric Foster) is a young student who runs away from his school after Bigfoot tells him that his forest ranger father is in trouble. You see, the previous summer Paul and Bigfoot became friends but no one believes the kid. Now the kid is reunited with his father who is tracking down a dangerous tiger but there are bigger issues going on.

CRY WILDERNESS is a pretty darn bad movie but it's thankfully campy and silly enough to where you can get some entertainment out of it. The film comes from director Jay Schlossberg-Cohen whose only other credit was a segment he did for the even more awful NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR. This film here is certainly among the worst Bigfoot movies that you're going to see as everything they were going for just fails.

This was obviously meant to be a heart-warming tale of a boy and his friend ala something like E.T. but this film fails on pretty much all levels. The biggest problem is that there's really no connection between the viewers and the characters. All of the characters are pretty much one-note and even worse is the fact that the film just never builds up the relationships between them. We're supposed to care for this young boy and his father but we don't. There's supposed to be a tender moment between Bigfoot and the boy but it's silly more than anything else.

I will say that the film does offer up some decent performances but that's just about it. There's a lot of footage of various wildlife animals that is probably the most entertaining thing going on. It's really too bad that the film itself wasn't better or at least they could have used Bigfoot in more of the scenes. As it stands, CRY WILDERNESS will appeal to fans of bad movies but that's about it.

I watched it on the revamp of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 as well. THANK GOD, because I would not have lasted 10 minutes. It still took me 3 nights to watch it because it was sooooo bad. MST3K cast kept me in it, laughing my butt off. They had wild animals in the movie and you could see the collars on some because they were chained so they didn't attack the actors. Hilarious!!!

This movie is an absolutely feverish nightmare to try and watch from a critical point of view. None of it feels coherent or logical by any standpoint, the characters all feel like planks of wood with no chemistry or actual character to be found. The movie's gimmick is simple: kid gets thingy that has little explanation that allows him to summon bigfoot to his location at any time, similarly to Springtrump in Five Nights at Candy's 2, but the concept is barely used at all. This movie's main child actor feels like an E list Child Anakin Skywalker ripoff, and it doesn't help the movie at all.

This movie is so abysmal, that one of the posters made me feel more emotion than the movie itself, with it's obvious image over the actual poster with the stupid bigfoot smile, it made me LAUGH. It made me FEEL something, which the actual movie didn't.

There are bad movies and there are awful movies and then there are movies so stunningly terrible that even Mystery Science Theater 3000 can't make them better.

Covered in the second episode of the show's 11th season, you'd expect the jokes about this bad movie to be a welcome dose of fun for MST3K's return. Sadly not. Either because of the new cast's inexperience or returning producer Joel Hodgeson's tendency to "play nice" with the bad movies, Cry Wilderness actually manages to defy satire.

This film is so god awful and poorly made that it actually can't be made fun of. The acting is bad, the script is drivel, the story is razor thin. It's everything MST3K has made fun of for nearly twenty years and yet some how it's worse, none of the jokes made at Cry Wilderness' expense manage to be funny because it's just...that...bad. it's by far one of the top ten worst films they've ever ridiculed and it's certainly one of the worst films I've ever watched.

Don't watch this movie, even if it's in the context of an MST3K episode, it defies all expectations for awful.

To be honest, what I like about this film is the music and the footage of nature. It looked like it was filmed in Canada, my favorite country. However, it seemed like the film took place in several places. For example, the boy somehow walks from San Diego to the middle of Alaska in under 24 hours towards the beginning, and he later finds his dad in a Canadian forest. His dad tells him towards the end to go to a bus stop, there aren't any in the country. My favorite part of the film was the ending because it showed the potential relationship teachers can have with students. However, I gave it a 1 because it didn't have a plot. I was confused most of the time. I watched the MST3K version and it is the best episode of Season 11. The original version is unwatchable. Fun fact: I went to Balboa Park and the San Diego Air and Space Museum in real life, where some of the filming took place.

This is slower then Star trek 1 but has no plot, and no character development.

I often wonder how producers find scripts like this a good idea!

No real plot. Better acting in first grader school plays. Unlikely a child would hitchhike alone with no questions asked. And finds his father right away in supposed wilderness. The best parts of this parody were the appearence of each animal. The rambo wannabe would have eaten a bullet breaking into some ones cabin. If not for MST3K I would have turned to Yoko Ono's film!

Spectacular acting (i really felt as though i was watching actual outdoorsmen with their impeccable usage of firearms), outstanding cinematography (i loved being teleported to various locations across the continent in a matter of minutes in the context of a woodland trek), phenomenal makeup and costume design (the patrick star-reminiscent face paint in an attempt to avoid proper racial casting was a bit out there, however), and stupendous use of stock footage of animals from across the world in order to achieve the desired run time! Better than oppenheimer, better than the godfather, better than citizen kane, i have to say, i think it beat out foodfight but just barely! WOW!

Very incoherent and poorly executed movie. Even the sound track sounds uninspiring. Not to mention the various instances of insensitive comments towards Indians and the perpetuation of negative stereotypes about them.

I watched this on Tubi just look at the scenes of Mono Lake and the south Tufa beds. Actually I didn't really watch the movie I just scrubbed through on my iPad to the scenes I was looking for..but truly, what an awful movie!