The Curse of Bigfoot is a popular legend that has captured the imaginations of people around the world. It is said to be a curse that brings misfortune and doom to anyone who encounters the legendary creature known as Bigfoot. The origin of the curse dates back to ancient Native American folklore, where Bigfoot was believed to be a vengeful spirit sent to punish those who disturbed the harmony of nature. According to the legend, anyone who harms Bigfoot or its habitat will be cursed with a lifetime of bad luck and misfortune. The curse is said to manifest in various ways, such as financial ruin, health problems, and personal tragedy. Over the years, numerous stories and accounts of the curse have circulated, adding to the mystery and fear surrounding Bigfoot.

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This is a very bad mummy movie from the 60’s which was re-edited and re-released as an unbelievably bad bigfoot movie in the 70’s. It would belong on the Satellite of Love even if it didn’t have a small part for Jackie Neyman Jones. Remember her? Debbie from Manos: the Hands of Fate? Yeah, as far as I know she’s the only member of the cast ever to do any non-Manos-related film work for the entire rest of her life and it was this.

Once upon a time, somewhere in the American Southwest, Primitive Man was terrorized by Even More Primitive Man. In modern times, a Bigfootology professor is giving a guest lecture to a class of students. First he shows them a clip of a movie just as bad as the one we’re watching, then we get an inaccurate history of bigfoot, including the tale of two idiots in a pickup truck who get a big, hairy ass-whooping. Then, half an hour into the movie, we finally get to what’s supposed to be the main plot. A professor of archaeology takes some of his students into the wilderness to help excavate an ‘ancient Indian campsite’, but along with the expected potsherds and prayer sticks, they find a tomb containing a mummy from a lost prehistoric civilization. It comes to life and shambles off into the forest to kill people, because it’s a movie and mummies do that.

This movie does not waste time. It starts sucking right out of the gate. Almost everything that’s going to be wrong with it is introduced in the first ten minutes, as if the movie wants to prepare us for the ordeal ahead.

The opening sequence is an incredibly drawn-out scene of a woman getting up in the middle of the night to calm her barking dog, only to be killed by a zombie that wanders out of the woods. This scene is around six times longer than it needed to be. We almost have to watch every moment of the dog drinking a bowl of milk she pours for it. The woman’s voice was dubbed in post, and neither the voice nor the physical acting is any good. The sequence is supposed to take place in the middle of the night, but was clearly filmed at high noon, reaching Attack of the The Eye Creatures levels of not giving a shit in having the sun appear in several shots, standing in for the moon! The actual attack happens off screen, because the film-makers could not afford effects.

Then this part ends, and we realize that what we just saw was supposed to be a clip from a horror film that the professor was showing his students. This provides a fleeting moment of hope, as we think perhaps its overwhelming badness was intended as parody. No such luck. We then move into the two loggers getting stalked and killed by bigfoot. The monster costume is different, but this piece is identical in anti-quality to the zombie scene. The film-makers were just morons, and these mistakes continue throughout the entire ninety-minute run time.

It’s actually astonishing that the movie is so consistent in its incompetence, because we are in fact watching two different films here. Curse of Bigfoot has a backstory similar to that of They Saved Hitler’s Brain, in that somebody in the fifties made a short movie and somebody else, years later, added useless filler to expand it into something they could show in a late-night TV slot. They Saved Hitler’s Brain feels very bifurcated, the new material being both narratively and stylistically different from Madmen of Mandoras. But if you didn’t know that Curse of Bigfoot was twenty minutes of extra film sewn onto a 1963 movie called Teenagers Battle the Thing, you might not immediately notice.

If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll probably remember that I thought Madmen of Mandoras was a significantly better movie than They Saved Hitler’s Brain (even if it still was definitely not a good movie) – the added footage was distracting and pointless. These two films, however, I would say are about equally awful. The footage added to Curse of Bigfoot is still pointless, but it looks exactly like what was originally shot for Teenagers Battle the Thing, the only noticeable difference being a slight change in the film stock! Both are depressingly earth-toned movies in which it takes for-fucking-ever for anything to happen, with night scenes shot in the blazing daylight, and lines dubbed in by bad voice actors over bad physical performances. Both feature shitty monster suits and every possible cost-cutting measure.

This leads me to wonder whether Curse of Bigfoot might be terrible on purpose. The people tasked with turning Teenagers Battle the Thing into a full-length movie got a couple of the actors back to play their older selves in the added footage. Making stuff match was clearly on their minds. Could they have actually thought things like, “we’d better use the wrong filter for this, or it won’t be as bad as the day-for-night in the original footage!” or “we need to pad this attack a bit, to match the pace!”? If so… I don’t know whether to be impressed, or just to crawl under the bed and cry.

On the other hand, Curse of Bigfoot does at least try to do one thing better than Teenagers Battle the Thing – it wants to have something to say. It spells this thesis out for us in the opening narration and in the professor’s speech about horror movies: our society has forgotten about monsters.

We in the twenty-first century don’t spent much time thinking about monsters unless we happen to be film-makers, political commentators, or maybe paleontologists trying to figure out what the fuck this bugger is. It wasn’t so long ago, however, that they were very real to many people. Archaeological evidence suggests that people in New England believed in vampires as recently as the 1820s. Nowadays, monsters have been taking out of the ‘scary’ category and placed in the ‘fun’ one, and so when people report things like bigfoot or a sea serpent, we don’t take them very seriously.

Bigfoot, sea monsters, and vampires don’t really exist, obviously, but in losing our fear of monsters we may have lost a proper respect for nature. Every so often the newspapers in my city carry a story of some tourist who tried to get a better selfie with a grizzly bear and got mauled. We are so used to thinking that we have tamed nature, that there are no monsters left, that we don’t recognize danger when we’re confronted with it. This certainly seems to be a theme of the stories we’re presented with in Curse of Bigfoot: it never occurs to the woman in the opening that her barking dog may be trying to warn her of danger, or to the two loggers that the mysterious figure in the woods might mean them harm.

The party of archaeology students certainly don’t think they’re heading into any danger, despite the fact that they repeatedly do dangerous things. A group of them climb to the top of a cliff to see where a fallen stone came from, and never worry about falling. When they pry open the tomb entrance, the strange smoke that wafts out might be considered a warning sign, but they ignore it. They head right into this dark hole without any worries about rodents, rattlesnakes, or cave collapses. When one character warns the others that the mummy has just moved, they laugh it off. A couple go for a walk through the dark woods at night to get to a vending machine, without a second thought.

Lest you think I’m in any way praising this movie, I’m not – I just like my reviews to be at least a certain length, so sometimes I really dig for material. This was a dig on the level of saying The Incredible Melting Man is about how we treat the elderly. My high school English teacher might buy it, but I doubt anyone else would.

One thing I do wonder is why they chose to reframe this as a bigfoot movie. The footage from Teenagers Battle the Thing makes it very clear that this is a mummy movie, although they couldn’t afford any of the genre’s traditional accessories. Instead of a museum and a treasure, we get one cabin in the woods and… that’s all. When the characters talk about the situation, they always describe the monster as a mummy, and even when they theorize that it’s the product of a lost civilization, the idea that it may not be human never crosses their minds. It is not particularly tall. It is not remarkably hairy. It looks nothing like the bigfoot the two loggers saw, although it does somewhat resemble the zombie from the opening. Why the man telling the story decided this being must be bigfoot is an absolute mystery.

The only thing I can come up with as an explanation is that bigfoot movies were popular in the 1970s. Having seen a number of these, I can’t say I find them particularly inspiring.

Curse of Bigfoot is almost incomprehensibly boring, to the point where I’m not sure MST3K could have done much with it if they had featured it. In the opening sequence it takes forever for the woman to be attacked and then we don’t see it. In the logger sequence it takes forever for the guy to be attacked and then we don’t see it. And in the main plot it takes forever for anyone to be attacked and then we don’t see it! The only attack we see is when the mummy attacks the sheriff at the climax and that really, really wasn’t worth the wait.

Congratulations, Jackie Neyman Jones – you managed to be in a movie worse than Manos.

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Curse of Bigfoot

A group of high school students on an archaeological dig discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave. Removing the mummy, it soon comes back to life, revealing itself to be an inhuman beast that terrorizes a small California town.

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Over the years, numerous stories and accounts of the curse have circulated, adding to the mystery and fear surrounding Bigfoot. While skeptics dismiss the curse as mere superstition, many people still believe in its power. Whether the Curse of Bigfoot is real or not, it serves as a cautionary tale that reminds us to respect nature and its inhabitants.

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i have seen more bigfoot movies than the average person and i can confidently say that this is the worst one

Well, this was quite the painful watch. I think I’d rather watch The Creeping Terror or Ax' Em 10 times in a row than to ever sit through this again. So what we have here is a somewhat questionable oddity, a re-edit of an unreleased Z-grade monster movie from the 50s/60s that was dug up, extended and eventually shat out on onto television in the mid-70s to cash in on the newly-found “Bigfoot” craze. Incidentally, the result is a sluggish and abysmal shambles of a film that feels like at least several different movies edited into one. In a way, that's more or less what it is, starting off as some kind of pseudo-documentary with a teacher giving a monotonous…

A teacher and an archaeologist square off in a heated competition to relate the dullest Bigfoot story ever told. In the end we all win.

"Never doubt that monsters exist. they do.”

Take one awful 59 mins long fifties movie about a school class finding an Indian mummy that wakes up and pad it with 30 minutes of nonsense about Bigfoot and voila - Curse of bigfoot. This is just crap on a large scale. The movie starts with a ten minute sequence about a creature killing a woman, which turns out to be a movie watched in class as an example of hollywood monsters. We then get a laborous lecture about bigfoot, some logging stock footage with narration about bigfoot and then a short, uneventful sequence with two loggers seeing a mysterious creature. Then we move on to the main event, a one hour flashback with the mummy that kinda looks…

Curse of Bigfoot is an expanded version of a 1958 film made by the same director and writer which was only released in their home town, and was later titled Teenagers Battle the Thing for a video release in the '90s. Two teenagers from the original appear as adults in the opening scene of the 1976 film. The rest of Curse of Bigfoot consists of the entire 1958 film seen as a flashback. The original film focused on the resurrection of a prehistoric monster and had nothing to do with Bigfoot.
If you’ve already watched Teenagers Battle the Thing, you can just watch the first 10 minutes of this. That’s about all that is added on.

"Never doubt that monsters exist. they do" Z-grade slosh that can't tell if it's a creature feature rollick or misinformed cryptid documentary. Way better bigfoot films are out there but this is perfect if you're ever looking to sit back and zone out. It's kind of a cozy flick (which I dig) with all its nature shots, sleepy music, meandering attitude, warm film grain and middle of the road pacing. I can get down with it.

if being boring is the biggest sin a movie can commit then this is going straight to the darkest and deepest pit of hell

This is genuinely one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. 88 minutes of forest, walking, climbing, and small talk. 88 fucking minutes. At least Manos had the decency to be under an hour. I feel like I’ve aged 40,000 years watching a group of high school students do and say nothing. I dozed off twice and spent most of the time on my phone and I missed literally nothing. God help those who decide to watch this and God bless those who do and don’t have to take breaks.

I knew this was going to be a miserable time going in, but sometimes I just want to watch a near-irredeemable movie. I suppose it’s my own way of balancing out last month’s unprecedented quality. Too much of a good thing and all that. This is certainly a movie you’ll either tune out completely or fall asleep to. Bigfoot is a mummy when he’s discovered, so that’s weird… I guess. Actually, the only weird thing here is how 60’s everyone’s fashion is. You could double-bill it with Night Fright and no one would know this was released nearly a decade later. I did some in-depth research, which required all the work of a Google search and clicking not two whole…

A mummified Bigfoot is reawakened by a group of archeological students on a field trip. Once reanimated the creature starts laying waste to a small California town. An interesting 'Bigfoot meets The Mummy' premise is marred slightly by the overly-padded story and over-use of narration, to the extent you often feel as if you're flipping between low budget horror and nature documentary throughout. The main stand-out factor is the creature design, which is quite radical and projects a 'wolf man with leprosy' vibe rather than your traditional ape-man look. Despite the film trying to be a little more original and putting a different spin on the tried and tested Bigfoot formula, the overall result is sadly a little lacking. I…

Curse of Bigfoot

Well, we found it. The Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny of horror films. Read that again. Reflect on it. Maybe discuss it with your local librarian, or, better yet, one of the pungent men who spends all day on a library computer glancing over his shoulder nervously as he “does internet research.” The Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny of horror films. A bold claim, especially when you consider that Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is arguably a horror film itself, based on the raw metric tonnage of nightmares it’s produced.

Just like that holiday classic, Curse of Bigfoot feels like an insane sandwich slapped together by Dagwood Bumstead after an extended opium binge, maybe Peanut Butter & Tacks & Pimento Loaf & a laserdisc of Newsies. A film within a film within a damp cardboard box within a film. Some highlights: a hideous papier-mâché creature (Bigfoot?) gradually approaches a woman feeding her dog for five continuous minutes. A high school teacher, apparently of the common high school subject “Monsters,” forces his students to listen to a guest speaker who would never be allowed within 500 feet of any school. Logging. Lots of logging. Logger deaths. And, to wash it all down and make sense of everything, a vintage monster movie stapled to the end, featuring a monster who may or may not be Bigfoot (it definitely isn’t Bigfoot). You don’t want to miss this.

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Curse of Bigfoot

Curse of Bigfoot is a 1976 American film directed by Dave Flocker. The film is an expanded version of an unreleased film later title Teenagers Battle the Thing for a video release in the '90s. The film was made around 1963. The two stars from the original appear as adults in the opening scene of the 1976 film. The rest of Curse of Bigfoot consists of the entire 1963 film seen as a flashback. The original film focused on the resurrection of a mummy and had nothing to do with Bigfoot. RiffTrax released their riff in April 2012.

So, should you ever find yourself in the presence of Bigfoot, be sure to treat it with reverence and kindness, for the curse may be more than just a myth..

Reviews for "Secrets of the Curse: Unveiling Bigfoot's Dark Legacy"

- Sarah - 1 star

"Curse of Bigfoot was one of the most disappointing movies I have ever seen. The plot was weak and confusing, the acting was terrible, and the special effects were laughable. I was expecting a thrilling horror movie about Bigfoot, but instead, I got a cheesy mess. Save yourself the time and skip this one."

- Mike - 2 stars

"I had high hopes for Curse of Bigfoot, but it unfortunately fell short. The concept had potential, but the execution was lacking. The pacing was incredibly slow, and the movie failed to build up any suspense. The acting was subpar, and the special effects were completely unconvincing. Overall, it was a forgettable and underwhelming experience."

- Emily - 1 star

"Curse of Bigfoot was a complete waste of time. The plot was predictable and unoriginal, and the characters were poorly developed. The movie relied heavily on jump scares, but they were ineffective and more annoying than scary. The dialogue was cringe-worthy, and the overall production quality was low. I would not recommend watching this film if you're looking for a good horror movie."

- Jason - 2 stars

"I was excited to watch Curse of Bigfoot, but the movie failed to deliver. The storyline felt disjointed and lacked cohesiveness. The acting was wooden and lacked emotion, making it difficult to become invested in the characters. The scares were predictable, and the special effects were dated. Overall, I was disappointed with the film and wouldn't watch it again."

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