AKA: Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes
A 2012 found footage film. After his career was ruined by a hoax, investigative journalist Sean Reynolds tries to make a comeback. He puts together his old crew and decides to prove that Bigfoot hunter Carl Drybeck's discovery of the body of a juvenile Sasquatch is a hoax. It turns out that Bigfoot is real and he brought friends. And an enemy.
This Film contains examples of the following Tropes:
- Apocalyptic Log: Given the genre, it goes without saying that no one makes it out alive.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Given the title, of course they're in the film. The film does however, play with the underused theory that Bigfoot is a spiritual guardian rather than a mere cryptid. As it turns out, there is something far more worse in the woods, from which the Sasquatch are protectors against. Said monster turns out to be the true threat in the film. We don't find out what it is, but it's suggested to be the Wendigo.
- Black Dude Dies First: Stated by Curtis as the reason why he won't go into the woods. He even has someone else back him up on this. Turns out they were right.
- Briefcase Full of Money: In this case a satchel. Sean gives $75,000 dollars to Drybeck to see the Bigfoot corpse.
- Cosmic Horror Story: A possible interpretation. Bigfoot exists to guard the barrier between this world and the next. And there are spots where things from beyond this world can come through and kill us. The horror comes when whatever the other monster is enters the fray.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Kevin. Seconds before being horribly killed.
- Crazy Survivalist: Drybeck comes across as this at times. He's a hunter living out in the woods, has enough experience and knowledge of the Sasquatches, and fortified his cabin to protect himself from them. Unfortunately, they're not the ones he needs protection from.
- Don't Go in the Woods: There's a gag about this in the first few minutes where Curtis argues against going into the woods on the basis of Black Dude Dies First. If only the others listened.
- Downer Ending: Everyone Dies, not at the hands of the Bigfoot, but the creature that they are trying to protect them from.
- Driven to Suicide: Whatever Darryl saw towards the ending makes him shoot himself.
- Eldritch Abomination: Since it appears in the presence of unearthly lights and the mere sight it manages to drive a man to suicide, whatever the Sasquatches are guarding against qualifies.
- Face Cam: Sean makes Kevin wear one when he hikes back to the van. It serves as his personal Apocalyptic Log as it records his final moments when he's attacked and torn apart by whatever's out there.
- From Bad to Worse: As if a hostile pack of Sasquatches wasn't bad enough. There's something worse out there,that the Sasqatches are trying to protect others from, and it goes on a rampage towards the ending..
- Gentle Giant: The Sasquatches are trying to get the humans to leave the woods and save them from whatever else is out there.
- Granola Girl: Robyn is into spiritualism. She feels the "energy" of a place and burns bundles of herbs to help her commune with nature.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Poor Robyn.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: It's right there on the movie poster. The Sasquatches aren't entirely peaceful. Considering that Drybeck ignored their warnings, stole the body of one of their own, and shot at them he might have had it coming.
- Last Words: Sean: "It's not a Bigfoot."
- Leave the Camera Running: The last shots of the movie, are the camera running for a moment after Sean is killed. As the camera lies on the ground, we hear its hooves walking up to the camera and the monster picks the camera up. We get a shot of it's eye just before the camera runs out.
- Let's Get Out of Here: It seems like half of Kevin's lines consist of this after a while.
- Light Is Not Good: The malevolent creatures presence is indicated by otherworldly flashes of blinding, white lights.
- Meaningful Background Event: When Robyn says "I'm not feeling so good", behind her you can see something's eyes, briefly.
- Noodle Incident: Sean's disgrace. Often reference, but never explained in detail.
- Nothing Is Scarier: We don't ever get a clear shot of Bigfoot. As for the other monster, we get more looks at it than we do of Bigfoot, and even then the most we see of it is that it has hooves and terrifying yellow eyes. That said, we don't find out exactly what it is, although it's implied it might be a Wendigo.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Sean's idea for a new TV series involves exposing these. At first he believes that Drybeck and his partner LaRoche are creating one with the Sasquatch. Sean's analysis of the aftermath of a Sasquatch attack involves exposing the various ways that it could have been faked. It turns out that the whole situation is real.
- Some Kind of Force Field: Admittedly it's just an electric fence designed to keep the Sasquatches out.
- Too Dumb to Live: Zigg Zagged with Kevin, who wants to leave, but the others refuse. When he finally does leave, he does so alone, and gets ripped apart by the other monster in the woods.
- Visible Boom Mic: Kevin is the replacement sound man so his skills aren't the best. Sometimes the mic is in the shot, sometimes the sound man is in the shot too.
