Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Curse of Bigfoot was made in 1975 but it was originally made in 1963 as a film called Teenagers Battle the Thing. As a result it feels discombobulated as the main story was filmed in 1963 but the parts made in 1975 are of just a classroom. Let me explain. In the 1963 Teenagers Battle the Thing was made. In 1975 the film was brought out and was incorporated in parts that were filmed in 1975. And that's what the movie feels like. It feels like two different films put together. Anyways the story is of a biology class who one day has a guest speaker named Roger Mason (who from the things he says probably is violating a restraining order by being in the school in the first place) (Bob Clymire) who tells the students about a story where he brought his students to a trip where they encountered Bigfoot. As I said before the narrative structure feels broken in some way but that's not the main point. The main point is that the movie is bad. Campy bad really. The design for Bigfoot looks like they wrapped the actor in paper Mache. There's not much to expect and not much to deliver. Pass.

I just finished watching the B&W 1958 version titled "Teenagers Battle the Thing", sans the 1976 filler footage. The film is about some teenagers led by an archaeologist who discover an ancient mummy "hundreds of thousands" of years old which had been entombed in an undiscovered cave in California. Soon after they bring the mummy back to their cabin, it comes to life and begins terrorizing the nearby orange groves. The sheriff suspects that the creature is responsible for a local murder and gets involved with the archaeologist and the kids. They devise a plan to try and stop it.This is a typical ultra-low budget drive-in "horror" movie from the 50s / 60s. There are the typical problems with "night" scenes obviously being shot in broad daylight, bad shots, corny dialog which was obviously read from off-camera cue cards, and other anomalies. The creature looks like a bug-eyed sasquatch with a bad case of mange, which staggers drunkenly in and out of the orange groves. Another thing that bothered me was the "archaeologist"'s complete disregard of correct field methods. No photos taken or notes taken of where the mummy and pottery fragments were found? Just rip 'em out of the ground and cart them off, huh? I struggled to stay awake watching this film. It drags on and on with shots of the orange groves and steep cliffs and more orange groves and lonely dirt roads and more orange groves, etc.. Let me assure you that if you have just arrived home from a long flight from Singapore and you're really jet-lagged, just start watching Teenagers Battle the Thing and your eyes will snap shut faster than if you'd taken a half a bottle of Ambien.

Representing the ugly, filthy, unwashed hind end of Sasquatch cinema, this dreadful direct-to-TV hodgepodge profoundly reeks more than the allegedly malodorous mythical monster. A little boy and his yippy dog are attacked by Bigfoot in the opening scene; this occurrence is never tied in with the rest of the flick. Next a pompous high school science teacher gives an interminable lecture about the origins and discovery of Bigfoot to his understandably disinterested class. An intense guy shows up to relate a grim story about his own nasty run-in with Sasquatch. Several years ago the intense guy was a high school teacher who with a coed student quintet in tow ventured into the wilderness to check out an ancient Indian burial ground. The expedition finds a mountain and climbs it. They uncover Sasquatch's secret subterranean tomb. They enter the tomb and run across a perfectly preserved mummified corpse. They remove the corpse, which turns out to be Bigfoot (!), from the tomb. Bigfoot awakens from his centuries of sleep and goes on the rampage. Man, is this patchwork muddle one beat movie. Don Fields' static direction sorely lacks both finesse and energy, the performances are terribly wooden, the narration is very annoying (Bigfoot is described as "a monster of evolution"), the pace lurches along at an excruciatingly sluggish clip, the story uses a confusing and disjointed flashback-ridden narrative structure with mind-deadening results, the cinematography offers a wealth of appalling mismatchings of footage shot in two separate eras, the cornball bellowing score sounds like it was lifted from some Grade Z 50's schlock creature feature, the faded color film stock is pure torture on the eyes, a stupefying surplus of extraneous filler abounds, the supposedly exciting climax is simply pitiful (Sasquatch gets torched in a small brush fire), and the Bigfoot is a real letdown -- he's some short heavy-stepping schmo in a ragged bush league hair suit with a pop-eyed, inexpressive paper mache mask on his face! The absolute pits.

OK.......it's sometime during the middle of the movie when you finally get a good look at the "scary" monster.....the bad music plays "da-daaaaa" as the camera zooms in on the monster. And to give you an idea of what this monster looked like I have to quote my Dad... he said "What's that? A piece of wood?" That sums up this horribly bad movie. But it's an absolute MUST SEE for people who love to heckle.The incredibly bad film, bad music and unbelievably bad acting is what makes this film the worst made piece of crap ever!! And how about the fact that the monster is supposed to be over 7' tall yet when he's fighting the 5'5" sheriff he's the same size! I could go on, but you need to see this thing for yourself to truly appreciate bad movie making.