"Curse of Bigfoot" is a hilariously awful
turkey movie from 1976. Weirdly, a large part of it consists of an amateur
horror flick made already in 1958. The original film wasn't independently
released until the 1990's, when it was titled "Teenagers battle the
Thing". Are you following? Probably not, LOL.
The plot of "Curse of Bigfoot" starts in 1976, when a high school teacher, after showing his class an awful horror movie about Bigfoot, invites a crazed scientist to lecture about real monsters. The mad scholar tells the class about an archaeological expedition twenty years earlier that went dangerously wrong. Then follows the above mentioned 1958 film as a kind of flashback. The expedition, most of which consist of teenagers, finds a mysterious Indian mummy that (surprise) turns out to be a hibernating squatch.
The monster escapes and starts attacking people, including the town sheriff, before the brave teens soak it in gasoline. The poor Bigfoot (supposedly hundreds of thousands of years old) burns to ashes in a dramatic finale, probably the only action-packed moment in this entire production. There the story ends, with the heroes looking just fine. However, from the crazy lecturer we learn that two of them actually ended up in a mental institution...
Apparently, the high school students who made the original 1958 film had great fun doing it, but to me and many others, this is unfortunately a C-movie of truly major proportions. Only one star for King Tut's mummified monster!
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