Mountain Devil

I thought this was a very down to earth documentary, without all the stupid hype. I found the witnesses believable, and I felt sorry for the girl who lost her grandfather and the way she told his story. In fact I watched it twice.

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

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.

I liked the P.R.O. and other eye witnesses trying to piece together the elephant in the woods.The Frank Peterson story has a chronological fault.Supposedly his family had found his trunk with his 8mm video in it.But wait, there is Frank torturing a chair in his garage.Talking about how he and his hunting buddy had to hide Bigfoot's body from the 'common folk'.The story goes that after their evening encounter with bigfoot they decide to stay in their cabin with doors and windows, rather than take the 6 guns that is clearly seen on the wall and high power their way out of there.One wonders if these men were truly hunters.They show a chainsaw at the end of the footage as if to infer they are going to cut up the 'body'.I don't know about the metabolism of scavengers up north.But I was witness to a trapper coming to his house to fetch his gun, saying he had a bobcat in his trap.(He had been walking back from work, and then running when we seen him.)By the time he noticed it and the time we got back to it was less than 45 minutes.There was nothing left but his paw in the trap, fur strewn all around and I found his completely picked skull in a small stream about 150 feet away.Bad enough one has to gnaw off their leg to get out of a trap (if that was even the case, looked like it was snapped off)But then unannounced company drops by.Whoever wrote "misery loves company" was not the miserable one and they were probably smacking their lips at an easy conquest.Don't you just love those ingrained sayings of communication that come straight from hell masked as good advice.

Believable witnesses and investigators. Main story took an unexpected ending. Would recommend.

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