NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980)
Directed by James C. Wasson
Starring Joy Allen and Bob Collins
Not to be confused with the other
"Night of the Demon" -- the classic
British horror film redubbed "Curse
of the Demon" in the U.S. -- this early
1980s, basically direct-to-video production is
truly the sleaziest Bigfoot movie ever made.
And like most entries in this peculiar sub-genre
of '70s horror, it's a so-bad-it's-funny
sermon on the dangers of man's invasion of
bigfoot's wildlife.
A teacher and his students decide to head to the
forest in search of the legendary Sasquatch. As
they hike, the teacher retells stories of some
of Bigfoot's latest killings. These graphic
flashbacks -- full of sex and ripped jugulars --
keep the movie interesting as the plot hardly
moves ahead. The most interesting murder involves
two girl scouts, lost from their group, who are
forced to stab one another to death.
Eventually, the plot thickens when the students run
into an old house in the woods, and learn that its
sole, wacked-out resident is a woman who had sex
with bigfoot as a girl. That old tabloid headline
"Bigfoot baby born!" turn out to be true.
Bigfoot eventually stages a siege on the house, pretty
much killing everyone off in slow motion, at one point
waving the entrails of a victim around.
Probably the most entertaining R-rated bigfoot movie around,
this doesn't deliver the unintentional laughs of "Curse of
Bigfoot," but it should satisfy Sasquatch fans. Lynn Eastman,
who had a part in "Phantasm," has a small role here as well.