Hunting the Legend

I enjoyed the movie.... I've definitely seen worse (Ape Canyon)

There is no personal bias intended towards the found footage genre, though I'm not a fan. The Hunting Legend joins the vast list of badly done found-footage movies, and while possibly not the worst it's down there. The best things are the dog(who offers the best acting in the movie, no joke) and the eerie sound effects for the creature. Elsewhere, The Hunting Legend's a stinker with its main flaw being that almost nothing happens other than constant arguing and chasing noises in the dark, it had a decent idea that is not used well at all and in the end felt very over-familiar. The pacing is so dull, with some very overlong scenes that are literally five or so minutes of the same thing happening, it's almost interminable. The ending doesn't feel like an ending with no pay-off and leaves us to decide what happened, we don't have any idea whether it was a Bigfoot or some serial killer(which is hinted at, and in a way that is too much of an afterthought) responsible and unfortunately by this point we don't care. Speaking of the Bigfoot, the closest we actually see one is on the poster and on blurry shadowy images that are not easy to make out, almost non-existent really. The Hunting Legend looks poor visually, the use of jump cuts bordered on excessive and annoying, scenes are lit so darkly some of the movie is not very easy to make out what's happening and the editing is enough to make one nauseous. The movie does nothing in making the characters interesting or likable(even the lead character), you've seen their types millions of times before and with no variation, their actions are repetitious and a lot of the time they act like idiots. The acting is basically constant screaming and not much else, Hannah Wallace being the worst offender. To conclude, very poorly done, one external review has likened it to an hour and a half of nothing and that sums The Hunting Legend up perfectly. 1/10 Bethany Cox

As far as "let's find Bigfoot" found footage movies go, this is one of them. Has it's moments but ends up being just another average dumb twentysomethings in the woods flick. Don't expect much and you may not be disappointed.

I gave this a 3 just because of the different story line as I hadn't seen it before compared to other Bigfoot movies. At first it looked promising and seemed like a lot of work had been put into it. however, that was before i realized how boring and choppy it was. The main characters are absolutely unlikable, they were all arguing the entire time. it got so annoying i couldn't even finish the movie.Also there are points of the movie where there are cuts within seconds of each other making it very choppy and 1 hour worth of 5 idiots walking through the forest doing nothing. "Bigfoot" is only seen once the entire film, one foot print, pictures and a bunch of rabbits hanging from trees. this movies is awful, I recommend you watch Exist or Bigfoot: the lost coast tapes, these two movies are way better than this crap.

Okay, I just finished the movie and I was pleasantly surprised. This is an excellent wood ape movie! I have no idea how others ranked it so low.

I was impressed that one man wrote, directed, filmed and acted in the production. Very skilled individual. It was well researched and included traits of the "legend" that aren't that well known by the public (example: wood knocks).

I thought the acting was very good -- especially the scenes where the characters breakdown from being frightened. I camp in the deep woods often and I've seen people go into a cocoon when critters are walking around the campsite.

The movie was suspenseful. I suggest watching it late at night with the lights turned off. Yes, it might start off a little slow, but not any slower than Blair Witch. I also liked the ending that has a twist to make you think and debate. If you liked Blair Witch and you are interested in wood apes, you will love this movie IMHO.

It is well worth the time. I think Joe Bob would say, "Check it out."