A 2012 American horror directed by David A Prior that has a Bigfoot terrorizing a small town and the sheriff (Reb Brown) has to work with a government official (Leliani Sarelle) to hunt down the creature.
The movie also stars Ted Prior, Sherrie Rose, David Campbell, Frank Stallone, and Tara Kleinpeter.
Tropes for the film:
- Accidental Truth: The ending reveals that Sarah never actually believed in Bigfoot, and simply used it as an excuse to go to the town because she knew Crawford would be there. The film's closing shot is of her running into a whole pack of Bigfoots, and implicitly getting killed.
- Apocalyptic Gag Order: There's a Bigfoot killing people in a national forest next to a town. The mayor tells Sheriff Joe Kelly to keep things quiet or they'll scare off the tourists coming into town.
- Best Served Cold: It's never explicitly mentioned, but based on the circumstances of Michael Danton's death, it seems that Testi shows up to take revenge on Crawford for something that took place during the Iran-Contra affair, at least a quarter-century before the film's setting.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: In the ending, Crawford admits that he doesn't remember who Michael Danton was, despite Testi's being out for revenge over Crawford's having killed him. Of course, this is partly the result of Testi and his backstory having not being mentioned at all until this point, meaning that the writers needed a reason to give him a Motive Rant.
- Chekhov's Skill: Subverted with Sharon, who is set up as an expert survivalist and seemingly an important character, but ends up falling victim to Bigfoot relatively early on.
- Halfway Plot Switch: The movie is pretty much Jaws with Reb Brown, Bigfoot, and a horror-flavored
Cliché Storm. Suddenly, near the end, Sarah Evans straight up snaps Sheriff Kelly's neck, is revealed to be a bounty hunter, and then suddenly, Testi, played by Frank Stallone, who despite being named had NO screen time up to this point, comes out of nowhere and confronts Crawford, until this point a completely generic antagonist, about something completely unrelated to the main plot! After that plot's finished, it's never mentioned again. - Let's Split Up, Gang!: This happens four times during the film's ending, resulting in most of the sheriff's department and the few survivors getting massacred.
- Make-Out Point: The movie begins with a scene of two throwaway characters getting killed at there.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: The town's mayor refuses to let Sheriff Joe issue any warnings about the wild animal that killed the two teenagers, because he's afraid it'll hurt business at that year's pumpkin festival. And this is before Joe has any reason to suspect that Bigfoot is involved, making the mayor's actions just seem ridiculously short-sighted instead of a reasonable reaction to an outlandish claim (as was the case in Jaws, which the scene clearly takes its lead from).
- Off with His Head!: One of Bigfoot's preferred ways of dealing with his victims, with him either crushing their head to a pulp or ripping it off.
- Shout-Out: To the 1987 action film Deadly Prey, which was likewise written and directed by David A. Prior, and featured a young commando named Michael Danton, the same name as the person who Testi wants revenge for in the ending — albeit the Danton in Deadly Prey survived that film, and in fact appeared in a sequel the year after this film.
- Suspiciously Stealthy Predator: Bigfoot. It seems to hide Behind the Black sometimes and just straight up murders people in clearings of forests. The latter is Justified because there's a pack of them.
- Terror at Make-Out Point: The film opens with a scene of Bigfoot killing two people who are making out in their car.
