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Curse of Bigfoot was made in 1975 but it was originally made in 1963 as a film called Teenagers Battle the Thing.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.

Those Chiller Theater fans in Pittsburgh who stayed up for the special triple (as opposed to the usual double) feature on October 30 1976 were highly entertained by both "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula." Ah, but the real Halloween 'trick' was this rickety home movie, shown in between the two Universal classics, which actually saw two repeat airings over the next 6 years (Aug 2 1980 and Jan 23 1982). With its classroom instructor discussing the shark in "Jaws," some of it at least appeared to be new, but by the time the flashbacks began, I noticed the late 50s vintage cars on display, and slowly began to realize that someone had decided to take an unreleasable 59 minute turkey of uncertain origin, add 29 minutes of 'new' footage, resulting in a full length feature that was truly a difficult sit. All I can say is that Larry Buchanan's Azaleas look like beloved works of art in comparison. The first half hour, set in a classroom, is interrupted by interminable stock footage of logging (!) and a slow crawl through the woods after a Bigfoot wannabe, seen for all of 10 seconds. Once the flashback begins, relating the original "Teenagers Battle the Thing," it fails to improve. By the time the excavation unearths an ancient mummy, it doesn't start walking until the last 23 minutes out of the 88 total, and is glimpsed for about 90 seconds (if that sounds like fun, be my guest). Bad movie buffs may find some entertainment value here, with no actual relation to Bigfoot (topical only during the 70s), I just hope that the updated version and additional footage did help the filmmakers turn a profit, since it has proved to be, in a sense, unforgettable, though for all the wrong reasons (just getting it shown must have been an achievement in itself).

I once saw this collection of exposed film as a member of a group of bad film fans who gloried in watching skin-peelingly bad movies. We agreed that this movie (in whatever incarnation) was one of the most wooden,lifeless pieces of dreck we'd ever come across.Several years later, I came across it again on archive.org, and downloaded it to see if it was really all that bad. This was after I'd notched several more years of watching pathologically undistinguished movies from people like Jerry Warren, Ray Dennis Steckler, Larry Buchanan and Bill Rebane, and I wanted to see how well "Teenagers Battle The Thing/Curse Of Bigfoot" stood up against these new contenders in the Bad Film Showdown.I have to admit, that time and perspective have improved my opinion of this film. Oh sure, I've only upgraded it from one star to two, but my opinion of it HAS improved.This movie really is just an obvious "Amateur Night" effort. There isn't a real performance...hell, there isn't a single convincing reading of a line of dialog by anyone in the movie. The "actors" obviously had no idea what to do, and neither did the director. Or the editor, who seemed to feel that every...single...scrap...of exposed footage needed to be included in the final product, no matter how ill considered or badly shot, scripted, performed, blocked or miked. (My favorite example is where two of the "teenagers", upon learning that their policeman cohort has been attacked some distance from their "ambush" site, pick up pails which are supposedly full of gasoline and go "running" to help their friend.) And yet, it's relatively harmless. Compared to the in-your-face,narcolepsy inducing boredom of 2nd tier Bill Rebane flicks like "The Alpha Incident" or "Invasion From Inner Earth", or Norman Thomson's "The Revenge Of Doctor X", this exercise in static tedium and wooden non-acting at least has the charm of feeling naive and childish, like a high school student's first attempt at a film.You shouldn't pay a dime to watch this thing. In fact, you shouldn't watch it at all unless you are an extreme fan of bad,bad film. But at least it's better than I remember.

My brother and I also enjoyed making fun of how bad this film was back when channel 9 showed it every two months or so in the mid to late seventies. Remember the incredible delivery of the girl talking to her dog, reminiscent of that "What? Sandwiches again?" commercial about learning to drive a tractor-trailer? I mainly recall the moment when they pull the plate covering the ancient tomb off and gas spurts out, with the leader of the expedition a full thirty seconds later surmising that the gas might be coming from a hole. I wonder if that scene was in any way an inspiration for Steven Spielberg in the equivalent scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" when ... never mind.