Bigfoot: Man or Beast?

From the fantastic narration to the wonderful Robert Morgan,this docu-drama has it all. Robert Morgan is still active in the search for "Forest Giants" as he likes to call them. This film takes me back to my childhood and helped to give birth to what would become a lifetime fascination with this subject. Like Steven(who reviewed this film earlier),I am a longtime bigfoot enthusiast/researcher myself who thinks that Bob Morgan is very underrated as a legend in the sasquatch community. Classic part of the film is the conversation with 3 of the all-time greats of sasquatchery,John Green,Rene Dahinden and Robert Morgan. I think Robert Morgan deserves to be one of the "four horsemen of sasquatchery" and he is such an interesting man. He has a book called Soul Snatchers that deals with his journey and travels will searching for our elusive friends of the woods. If you love the 70's documentaries,the subject of sasquatch or just want to see a great period piece,this film will not let you down. Simply one of the best.

This was a great film if it was 20 years ago and about four in the morning and you had a hand rolled cigarette and a couple of glasses of wine and it came on the only station broadcasting all night in your area. This was before cable, folks. Stations really did often shut down from two to six a.m.. They'd play the star spangled banner, show some Air Force jets flying through the Grand Canyon and then suddenly a major network tv station shut off and you got a test pattern and a a four hour high pitched beep. I kid you not. But one would usually stay on and it was your only hope. Whatever movie came on, that was the hand you were dealt, and this miserably amateurish idiot film was the only game in town on more than one sad occasion. The only authentic scientific moment is the frame by frame showing of the famous footage of the Bigfoot walking through a forested area in the U.S. Northwest. This shakey 8 millimeter clip was recently proven to be a total hoax, a guy in a gorilla suit, so if the movie wasn't a joke before, its twice as comical now. By all means, watch this film if it ever comes on TV, but not if you're sober. Another fine film from American International.

I have only ever seen it once. It was about 12 years ago, and it was on TBS or something at 4am. The best part was the people who live in the cabin, the husband did all the talking of the encounter his WIFE had with Bigfoot. The stick figure with big pointed teeth that she provided as a description of the Beast is hilarious. Once you get past laughing at most of the people who they interview, it really is pretty interesting. It was made in the early 70's, and the scientific side of it is pretty solid. Especially for being made as long ago as it was. An absolute must see for anyone, if you can find it to watch. It hasn't been on for a long time, and I don't believe you can buy it anywhere.

This is the best Bigfoot documentary of them all. I HIGHLY recommend it. Most of it deals with a team of explorers. Including two biologists, a microbiologist, a botanist, an expert tracker, & sociology researcher, two Bigfoot researchers, an anthropologist, a naturalist, & a Native American historian spend most of the summer of 1974 in the Mt. St. Helens area gathering evidence & talking to people who claimed to have seen Bigfoot. Until a forest fire forces them out of the area. Luckily they found footprints & hair samples before they had to leave. Unfortunately, the 1980 eruption of Mt. St Helens heavily impacted or destroyed some of the area. The rest is interviews with other Bigfoot witnesses & the Patterson/Gimlin film. Which has NEVER been proved to be a hoax as the other reviewer claims. I know this because I'm a Bigfoot researcher myself & keep up on all the Bigfoot news.

My only problem with the DVD is nobody bothered to restore the color of the film before putting it on DVD.

Bigfoot: Man or Beast? (1972)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Released the same year as THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK, this docu-drama is basically just like that movie, although this one here focuses more on the actual hunting of the creature.

For the most part this is an entertaining movie as long as you're a fan of the subject. There's certainly nothing ground-breaking here but you've got to admit that the 1970's were the clear Golden Era for Bigfoot movies. You had countless documentaries, several cheap movies and television series like In Search Of... that took a look at the legendary creature and all of them tried to educate the viewer on the creature and what hopes there were for finding one. This film does a good job with the interviews as we get to hear from several eyewitnesses. I thought the film started to drag during the final thirty-minutes when it turned into more of a hunting guide.