Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

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

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

tthegal I came across this on a channel late at night, didn't see beginning. Decided to watch it even though the details on description gave it 1 star! All I gotta say is watch it for heck of it as it kept me curious and a little spooked! For a low budget film I'll give them credit on that.But, really, trying to kill the thing and only a sheriff is involved with them to help! So that part there made me give it a low rating. I'm like where is more help! Then after reading other reviews, ok my new TV isn't whacked! Yes night was daytime in some scenes! Because of these aspects after having to see if there were these observations in a review I decided to give my review- I didn't see anything on just a sheriff helping out. But on night scenes, thank you other reviewers to reassure my TV was ok!So for curiosity entertainment if you pass by it, it's worth a watch. Im sure you'll agree with all I wrote though! I'll leave it here with, really only a sheriff!

lemon_magic I once saw this collection of exposed film as a member of a group of bad film fans who gloried in watching skin-peelingly bad movies. We agreed that this movie (in whatever incarnation) was one of the most wooden,lifeless pieces of dreck we'd ever come across.Several years later, I came across it again on archive.org, and downloaded it to see if it was really all that bad. This was after I'd notched several more years of watching pathologically undistinguished movies from people like Jerry Warren, Ray Dennis Steckler, Larry Buchanan and Bill Rebane, and I wanted to see how well "Teenagers Battle The Thing/Curse Of Bigfoot" stood up against these new contenders in the Bad Film Showdown.I have to admit, that time and perspective have improved my opinion of this film. Oh sure, I've only upgraded it from one star to two, but my opinion of it HAS improved.This movie really is just an obvious "Amateur Night" effort. There isn't a real performance...hell, there isn't a single convincing reading of a line of dialog by anyone in the movie. The "actors" obviously had no idea what to do, and neither did the director. Or the editor, who seemed to feel that every...single...scrap...of exposed footage needed to be included in the final product, no matter how ill considered or badly shot, scripted, performed, blocked or miked. (My favorite example is where two of the "teenagers", upon learning that their policeman cohort has been attacked some distance from their "ambush" site, pick up pails which are supposedly full of gasoline and go "running" to help their friend.) And yet, it's relatively harmless. Compared to the in-your-face,narcolepsy inducing boredom of 2nd tier Bill Rebane flicks like "The Alpha Incident" or "Invasion From Inner Earth", or Norman Thomson's "The Revenge Of Doctor X", this exercise in static tedium and wooden non-acting at least has the charm of feeling naive and childish, like a high school student's first attempt at a film.You shouldn't pay a dime to watch this thing. In fact, you shouldn't watch it at all unless you are an extreme fan of bad,bad film. But at least it's better than I remember.

Woodyanders Representing the ugly, filthy, unwashed hind end of Sasquatch cinema, this dreadful direct-to-TV hodgepodge profoundly reeks more than the allegedly malodorous mythical monster. A little boy and his yippy dog are attacked by Bigfoot in the opening scene; this occurrence is never tied in with the rest of the flick. Next a pompous high school science teacher gives an interminable lecture about the origins and discovery of Bigfoot to his understandably disinterested class. An intense guy shows up to relate a grim story about his own nasty run-in with Sasquatch. Several years ago the intense guy was a high school teacher who with a coed student quintet in tow ventured into the wilderness to check out an ancient Indian burial ground. The expedition finds a mountain and climbs it. They uncover Sasquatch's secret subterranean tomb. They enter the tomb and run across a perfectly preserved mummified corpse. They remove the corpse, which turns out to be Bigfoot (!), from the tomb. Bigfoot awakens from his centuries of sleep and goes on the rampage. Man, is this patchwork muddle one beat movie. Don Fields' static direction sorely lacks both finesse and energy, the performances are terribly wooden, the narration is very annoying (Bigfoot is described as "a monster of evolution"), the pace lurches along at an excruciatingly sluggish clip, the story uses a confusing and disjointed flashback-ridden narrative structure with mind-deadening results, the cinematography offers a wealth of appalling mismatchings of footage shot in two separate eras, the cornball bellowing score sounds like it was lifted from some Grade Z 50's schlock creature feature, the faded color film stock is pure torture on the eyes, a stupefying surplus of extraneous filler abounds, the supposedly exciting climax is simply pitiful (Sasquatch gets torched in a small brush fire), and the Bigfoot is a real letdown -- he's some short heavy-stepping schmo in a ragged bush league hair suit with a pop-eyed, inexpressive paper mache mask on his face! The absolute pits.

thejimdoherty THE CURSE OF BIGFOOT and TEENAGERS BATTLE THE THING are actually two different films. From what I can make out, TEENAGERS BATTLE THE THING was made in 1958. A VHS tape was released in 1997. It's in black and white and runs 60 minutes. I don't believe this version was ever released theatrically. THE CURSE OF BIGFOOT added newly-shot footage (some of it being needless padding) to the beginning and end of the film, leaving the TBTT footage basically intact in the middle. The new introductory scenes, shot over a decade later, use one of the actors from TBTT as a guest lecturer in a high school classroom. He recounts his amazing story of his encounter with Bigfoot. The TBTT scenes are then used as a flashback. Either version of the film is fun, although the new framing footage in BIGFOOT is a hilarious plus.