Squatching + Journey Towards Squatchdom

Starring: Scott Herriot

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Description: An amusing peek into BigFoot research.

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Scott Herriott is the former host of TechTV's "Internet Tonight." He also has contributed to CNN's "News Night."

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Ancient Mysteries: Bigfoot (1994)

Studio: A & E Entertainment

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Possibly the best Bigfoot documentary available today., March 14, 2002
Reviewer: "elliekedward" (#10 Downing Street, London)

Unless you can obtain a copy of "The Mysterious Monsters," the 1975 Sunn Classic Pictures documentary -- hosted by Peter Graves -- that introduced the Patterson-Gimlin footage of Bigfoot at Bluff Creek, California, this documentary is about as good an introduction to Bigfoot as you will find. This video does contain the famous Patterson footage, as well as remarks by the late Dr. Grover Krantz, and the retired Peter Byrne, two of the most (in)famous Bigfoot researchers ever.

The video is broken into five "acts." Act 1 describes the history of bigfoot, citing such individuals who have recorded large, hairy creatures as Leif Erikson, Teddy Roosevelt, 19th-century missionaries in the Rocky mountains, and relevant Indian tribes. Act 2 is devoted to the Patterson footage. Acts 3, 4 and 5 describe the international interest in the creature, and also include some video footage taken by two men who were trying to capture Bigfoot on video. Did they? I will admit that their footage of two distinct eyes peering at them from a shadowy copse is intriguing and quite creepy. It is not, however, anything compared to Patterson's footage.

If you are interested in Bigfoot documentaries, there really is not much available these days. Some claim that the best documentary ever made was The Mysterious Monsters, but you may have difficulty finding it (although it IS available. Use your Internet imagination and see where it leads you).

One last thing: "The Hunt for Bigfoot," hosted by Clu Gulager, has got to be the most preposterously shameful excuse of a so-called documentary ever created. It is a transparent sham, and in no way should be mistaken for respectable research into the Bigfoot phenomenon. DON'T BUY IT!

Sasquatch Odyssey: The Hunt for Bigfoot (1999)

Director: Peter von Puttmaker

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Entertaining Record of "The Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery", July 4, 2002
Reviewer: "elliekedward" (#10 Downing Street, London)

The first thing to note about this film is that, contrary to most accounts, it is not really a humorous film and certainly not a comedy. In a few instances, you cannot repress a chuckle at the old-man animosity with which the so-called "four horsemen of sasquatchery" regard each other. Ever since their departure from each other's company in 1960, Peter Byrne, John Green, Rene Dahinden, and Grover Krantz have not had much pleasant to say about each other. Krantz and Dahinden have both since passed away, which makes this video all the more of a historical record, and in that sense, when someday the "mystery" of Bigfoot is finally resolved (one way or another), "Sasquatch Odyssey" will probably be regarded as the only worthwhile video on the subject.

This video is not about Bigfoot; it is about the search for Bigfoot by the four most notable characters to ever pursue the creature. It is definitely a very well-made production, and highly entertaining for anyone who ever wondered whether the Big Hairy Guy really exists. What marks this production as very different from the "A&E Ancient Mysteries" or "In Search Of" productions is that there is no creepy background music, peripherally suggesting that the creature really does exist (though, of course, we will leave it up to the viewer to decide for himself...blah, blah). In short: What makes these Bigfoot hunter guys tick? After watching Sasquatch Odyssey, you can't really tell if the producers support the existence or regard it as total folly. And that is why it really succeeds as a documentary.

Also appearing is one of Hollywood's greatest special effects legends, Stan Winston, creator of movie monsters such as the Jurassic Park dinosaurs, the apes in Congo, Alien, Predator, etc. Along with the late John Chambers (who created the apes in Planet of the Apes, and whom film director John Landis credits with being the man behind the Patterson-Gimlin footage creature from Bluff Creek on October 20, 1967), Winston is an undisputed master of movie trickery. He viewed the Patterson-Gimlin footage, and states: "It's a guy in a bad hair suit. Sorry." Later, "For under a thousand dollars -- in that day -- they could have had this suit made. If one of my [professional] colleagues created this for a movie, he'd be out of business." Pretty damning testimony against the most famous Bigfoot video footage. On the other hand, Winston is not a forensic scientist. Review "Toward a Resolution of the Bigfoot Phenomenon" by J. Glickman, Diplomate, American College of Forensic Examiners, a research report available on the Internet, which takes the Patterson-Gimlin footage apart pixel by pixel, and get a rather different testimony.