Line #7 Trivia/CryWilderness


1	* ColbertBump: Really, the only reason most people know about this movie is because it was featured on Season 11 of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000.''
2	* CreatorBacklash: Based on the passage below, screenwriter Philip Yordan was well aware of how void of substance the film is, and doubted that anyone could even sit through it, much less enjoy it.
3	* DuelingWorks: This wasn't the only Bigfoot movie released in 1987;
4	** There was the more famous ''Film/HarryAndTheHendersons'' which was about a family sheltering a Bigfoot.
5	** ''Creator/{{Disney}}'' had a telefilm called ''Bigfoot'' about a family encountering one in the mountains.
6	* ExecutiveMeddling: According to the screenwriter, Philip Yordan, the mess that is this film is entirely due to this. According to [[https://archive.org/details/backstory200patr/page/370/mode/2up?q=sasquatch this interview]], he wrote a coherent script only to then have it butchered by his producer who insisted that it had to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids for children]] and demanded that he rewrite it. The demands made it impossible for him to come up with any meaningful {{Conflict}} for the film, and by the end of it he was literally told to make a movie about absolutely nothing.
7	-->"The distributor, who had done ''Sasquatch'' (1978)[[note]] Whatever film that is, which is not mentioned on Wikipedia, IMDB, or elsewhere on Website/ThisVeryWiki, it should not be confused with a few other documentary films about Bigfoot, all of which are from 197'''6''' and have different distributors.[[/note]], which cost maybe $150,000 and made over $4 million profit, says to me, "Give me a picture about Bigfoot and I'll make millions." So I sat down and wrote a picture. He says 'No, no, no, you don't understand. You got scenes in the beginning that will scare the audience. It's for kids.' So I had to take out all the scary scenes. Bigfoot couldn't be threatening; he had to be nice. No blood, no violence, no sex, no bad language. I said, '[[JustForFun/TheTropelessTale You really want a picture about nothing]]!' He says, 'That's it! Now you've got it! Nothing! I want nothing!' I said, 'That's the most difficult to write.' Well, the picture is about nothing, if you sit through it, which I don't know if you can."
8	* HeAlsoDid: Phillip Yordan, the screenwriter who disowned the movie, was best known for being a frontwriter for victims of UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist.
9	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A rescued example: Despite the presence of TV spots on [=YouTube=] indicating it had ''some'' publicity, and the fact that Phillip Yordan mentioned it in an interview, as well as some critical reviews from ''Variety'' and ''Motion Picture Guide'' magazines around its original release, ''Cry Wilderness'' does not seem to have gotten ''any'' video release until its 2004/2005(?) DVD release by Trinity Home Entertainment. Presumably its original copyright owners, Visto International, went defunct, as multiple distributors have released it in multi-feature [=DVDs=], such as Vinegar Syndrome and Phase 4 Films.

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