(Mild Spoilers) The movie "Curse of Bigfoot" copies the earlier Bigfoot epic "Shriek of the Mutilated" with a Bigfoot hunter Norman Mason going out into the timberland country of Northern California with a troop of collage students to find the elusive man-like creature.
Were first shown a number of film clips by high school teacher Dr. Bill Wyman about what Bigfoot-or Sasquatch-is really all about in his many sighting in both North America and the Himalayans Mountains where he's called Yiti by the natives who live there. It's then that Dr. Wyman introduces us, and his students, to a disheveled looking Norman Mason who's never been the same after he and his group of collage students encountered Bigfoot some five years ago. Were told by Mason that three of his students, as well as himself, have suffered deep psychological trauma after that shocking encounter and are now under constant and intensive psychiatric care.
It's when Mason recites the story of his, and his collage students, encounter of the legendary Bigfoot that everything goes out of whack in that it isn't about Bigfoot at all! It's in fact about this unrelated 100,000 year old Indian Mummy that he discovered outside the ghost town of Ivanpah California! The Mummy came to life when it was exposed to the fresh air outside its tomb and, not having eaten in 100,000 years, started to search the countryside looking for a free, in that it didn't have any cash or credit cards, meal.
The Mummy, not Bigfoot, ends up killing, and eating, a number of people but is later lured into a trap by Mason and his students as well as local Sheriff Walt where it's set on fire and burned to a crisp. The fact that there was nothing left of the killer Indian Mummy made Mason's story a bit unbelievable in that there was no proof at all that he ever had any contact with it or it even existed. Mason's story about three of the students with him ending up institutionalized also made no sense at all in that in his recounting of his amazing story they,the students, seemed to have been totally unaffected in their encounter with the Mummy.
The film "Curse of Bigfoot" is actually two movie fused into one, like "They Saved Hitler's Brain", being made some 17 years apart. The original film the 1958 unreleased "Teenagers Battle the Thing" had of course nothing at all to do with Bigfoot but the aforementioned Indian Mummy. The footage added on with Dr. Wyman was more or less an attempt to make the Mummy into a Bigfoot which turned out, after watching it, to be a complete and total failure.
The most interesting thing about the film, far more than its depiction of Bigfoot, is that it has actor Ken Kloepfer in both the spliced together movies, some 17 years apart, playing the same role of Norman Mason!
Were first shown a number of film clips by high school teacher Dr. Bill Wyman about what Bigfoot-or Sasquatch-is really all about in his many sighting in both North America and the Himalayans Mountains where he's called Yiti by the natives who live there. It's then that Dr. Wyman introduces us, and his students, to a disheveled looking Norman Mason who's never been the same after he and his group of collage students encountered Bigfoot some five years ago. Were told by Mason that three of his students, as well as himself, have suffered deep psychological trauma after that shocking encounter and are now under constant and intensive psychiatric care.
It's when Mason recites the story of his, and his collage students, encounter of the legendary Bigfoot that everything goes out of whack in that it isn't about Bigfoot at all! It's in fact about this unrelated 100,000 year old Indian Mummy that he discovered outside the ghost town of Ivanpah California! The Mummy came to life when it was exposed to the fresh air outside its tomb and, not having eaten in 100,000 years, started to search the countryside looking for a free, in that it didn't have any cash or credit cards, meal.
The Mummy, not Bigfoot, ends up killing, and eating, a number of people but is later lured into a trap by Mason and his students as well as local Sheriff Walt where it's set on fire and burned to a crisp. The fact that there was nothing left of the killer Indian Mummy made Mason's story a bit unbelievable in that there was no proof at all that he ever had any contact with it or it even existed. Mason's story about three of the students with him ending up institutionalized also made no sense at all in that in his recounting of his amazing story they,the students, seemed to have been totally unaffected in their encounter with the Mummy.
The film "Curse of Bigfoot" is actually two movie fused into one, like "They Saved Hitler's Brain", being made some 17 years apart. The original film the 1958 unreleased "Teenagers Battle the Thing" had of course nothing at all to do with Bigfoot but the aforementioned Indian Mummy. The footage added on with Dr. Wyman was more or less an attempt to make the Mummy into a Bigfoot which turned out, after watching it, to be a complete and total failure.
The most interesting thing about the film, far more than its depiction of Bigfoot, is that it has actor Ken Kloepfer in both the spliced together movies, some 17 years apart, playing the same role of Norman Mason!