Mountain Devil

Zero stars.Most Bigfoot movies fall into one of two categories - documentaries, which are mostly boring because all they do is look at footprints, knock wood, and wander around the woods; and Hollywood monster flicks, which are campy and cheesy but at least mildly entertaining. The poster looks like the second. The description sounds like a hybrid - an exciting true story! The truth is, this movie is none of the above. It is a hoax. A very, very boring hoax.It plays out like a boring documentary with a lot of footprints and whatnot, but with the promise of an exciting reenactment of a true event. When they *finally* get to the reenactment, is it very short and not that interesting - basically an unseen being pounds on a door and two men are scared. And then, *then* we are shown actual old crummy footage of the incident! (Or post-incident. Or maybe the whole camping trip. Who cares? Definitely not the producers.) And that's where it all falls apart. They show the "Bigfoot" briefly, and it is so obviously a black gorilla costume you can find at any party store it's actually insulting to the viewer.The story isn't consistent, and the reenactment doesn't match up to the story as told on "home video" of the "victim." It's like the people who made this couldn't even be bothered to watch the whole thing once to check for glaring inconsistencies.The poster has approximately 1000x higher production value than any part of the actual movie. And also absolutely nothing to do with the movie. There's no blue truck in the movie (or any vehicle of consquence), no bloody handprint (no blood at all), no creature that looks anything like that on the poster.Sometimes you see the movie with the subtitle "The Search for Frank Peterson" which is super weird because Frank Peterson is never missing - he supposedly recorded video both at the time and later. I've seen some places identify this as a "mockumentary." It's not that either because it isn't funny. It doesn't try to be funny, or satirical, or anything other than fiction presented as fact: a hoax.I could go on, but I've already wasted way more time on this thing than it deserves

I never believed in "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch" at all but the idea that two "common folk" would BURY the Bigfoot to keep it from "common folk" is a laugh riot and totally unbelievable. If they really HAD shot what they thought was a "Bigfoot", they KNEW they had encountered something that would make both of them rich beyond compare, yet they chose to bury it? Not a chance. Not only that but when they said that they thought they might have shot a large man, that reinforced my opposition to ever going into the woods where there are hunters. What a load of bs. Luckily I skipped the majority of it to get to the end. There's fifteen minutes I won't ever get back.

This is basically a documentary about 2 hunters who shot and killed a Bigfoot in the 1970's (although they don't get to that until the very end). Anyway, the 2 hunters don't think the world is ready, so they decide to bury it and not tell anybody. LOL! Yeah, I'm going to call B.S. there. Of course, their only real proof is about 8 secs of blurry and grainy 8mm video of the supposed dead body. IF they wanted to hide it, why film it at all? And if you're going to film it, why only about 8 secs? No close ups and only 1 view of the body also.I really wanted to believe, but as usual am again sorely disappointed with the "story" with crappy evidence.

Where do I start with this one? Having grown up in Pennsylvania, just south of Rockton, I was really looking forward to this movie. Sadly the movie did not live up to the hype. The movie is supposed to be a documentary of a true event that happened in the 1970's. I wasn't there, I don't know if these events actually took place or not, but there are some huge, glaring holes in this story and the way that it is presented. That leaves me in the position of viewing this movie as a work of science fiction, a very poor work of science fiction.The best thing that I can say about this movie is that, unlike most of the low budget movies out there, this one does not contain continual screaming and profanity being passed off as a script. I'll give it one star for that. Other than that, I'm sorry, I can't recommend it. It's slow and painful to watch.

Honestly I feel the score should be lower, but I did enjoy watching the movie to go half way. However. The fact that all stories, evidence, and testimony leads to not only killing, but burying the evidence, throws the whole purpose out the window. All because these two men felt that the world could not handle or was not meant to see a creature this compelling. You pretty much open this back to sceptic speculation, and shoot yourself in the foot of proving against doubt of your claim that these events took place. I don't doubt Peterson, but frankly the fact you literally destroyed the evidence, makes me call it a hoax. Plus if you didn't want to reveal this to anyone, why take footage of it? Which by the way the grainy film at the end, supposedly the original shot by Peterson, doesn't prove that what you see is the actual corpse. People constantly show evidence on a regular basis of strange creatures and phenomenon, be it in poor quality most of the time, yet physical evidence is the better proof. Hair and foot prints are the best that have been done so far in regards to bigfoot. Still, until an actual body or live specimen is captured, or I see it myself, I'm afraid it's still a cryptid open to interpretation of either being real or myth. The actions of these two men made no sense. If you grew guilt of conscience in killing the creature, I could understand. But you also killed what possibly could have been not only a irrefutable fact of this creatures existence, but a chance to see where we fit in with it. Again, I don't doubt a person who truly acts and sounds as if they really did see what they saw, but actual physical evidence would have given more credit. Instead this film ends up as another in a collection of strung out encounters.

okay,this movie,is not for everybody,that said,i will say,based on my interest in Sasquatch,that i myself enjoyed the movie.they talked with (i believe it was his daughter) and she took them back to where the encounter took place.for me,this was extremely important as the viewer could now see the exact location.it is not a movie per-say,but more of a telling of an event (albeit scary) of two men who encountered this creature one night at their cabin out in the woods and according to them.....shot and killed it.as i say,i enjoyed the movie as it is based on a real event and i myself have no reason to doubt it really did happen.the sincerity and honesty of those involved in the making of this documentary type movie really shows.

Christmas present.