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I was noting some shortfalls in the entries at Wikipedia for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot#Bi ... ar_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti#The_y ... ar_culture

So I threw in the majority of the following and thought I'd open up the floor for people to add more and tell us which they've seen as the majority sound bloody awful:

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Bigfoot:

Bigfoot (1970)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0065470/

Curse of Bigfoot (1976)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0074365/

Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot (1977)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0078203/

Snowbeast (1977)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0076731/

The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0124307/

Revenge of Bigfoot (1979)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0197820/

Bigfoot (1987) (TV)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0092657/

Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0093148/

Little Bigfoot (1997)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119544/

Little Bigfoot 2: The Journey Home (1997)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119545/

Sasquatch Hunters (1997)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0197851/

Ape Canyon (2002)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0398696/

The Untold (2002)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0265944/

Sasquatch Hunters (2005) (V)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0339531/

The Unknown (2005)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0364616/

The Legend of Sasquatch (2006)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0491027/

The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang (2006)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0460925/

Soon to be joined by Bigfoot:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25106
from the comic:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21080

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Yeti:

The Snow Creature (1954)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047507/

Jû jin yuki otoko / Beast Man Snow Man (1955)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0048240/

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0050480/

The Abominable Snowman (1957)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0050095/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abomin ... %28film%29

Maldición de la bestia, La (1975) - this is what we want!! Mad Spenish werewolf vs yeti action!!
www.imdb.com/title/tt0073338/

The Abominable Snowman (1996)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0115453/

The Abominable Snowman (2006)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0372748/

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Sasquatch Horror Collection

Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot, Snowbeast and The Snow Creature:

www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009 ... ntmagaz-21
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000929 ... enantmc-20

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And lets not forget the Bigfoot porno appearance in 2003's Flesh Circus:

www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 552#448552

How could we!!
 
A few spring to mind:

The Legend of Boggy Creek (multiple films, the first largely documentary, the rest more fictional)

(WARNING: ADULTISH LINK TO HILARIOUS REVIEW WITH PIX)The Geek, which features a rather poor Bigfoot gettin' together in the great outdoors with a lady.

Snowbeast (already mentioned) is one of the greatest bad films ever!
 
gncxx said:
The great M.J. Simpson website claims to list them all, and who am I to doubt him?

Link:
http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/bigfootfilmog.html
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Thats great :yeay:

It also confirms something else I noticed - that there are no Bigfoot films before 1970 but Yeti films have ticked over since the fifties. There is some cultural feedback mdel in there somewhere - major report leads to lots of interest, which leads to more films, which help shape people's encounters and expectations, etc., etc.
 
There was also the Saturday morning kids show Bigfoot and Wildboy, which ran for a couple of years in the 70s. From the minds that brought you Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost.

Plot Synopsis:
Orphaned at a young age, Wildboy was raised in the Pacific Northwest by Bigfoot, a large, hairy man-thing. Together, Bigfoot and Wildboy combated the various forces of evil in their part of the country. Besides being extremely strong, Bigfoot could also use super powered jumps to get to high places or to cover far distances. Helping (and occasionally hindering) Bigfoot and Wildboy were Suzie (first season only), the 12 year old daughter of the Ranger Lucas, and Cindy (second season only), an archeology student.
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Link with wacky screenshot goodness: http://70slivekidvid.com/bfwb.htm
 
...and my all time favorite pseudo-documentary:

"The Legend of Bigfoot" by the legendary Ivan Marx
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279919/

Good entertainment, even though the Bigfoot shots
could be anything or anyone. The "shining eyes"
sequence is chilling, though most likely fake.

TVgeek
 
There is an indie Bigfoot film out (no IMDB entry and you have to buy it from their site):

Trailer:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &q=bigfoot

Site:
www.bigfootthefilm.com

Looks trashy but possibly fun - the whole killer Bigfoot is a little silly but then again I suppose those people meeting a serial slaying Sasquatch wouldn't live to tell the tale so it might be reporting bias ;)
 
Abominable

Hmmm. 'Harry and the Hendersons' teen slasher movie?

Site.

Trailer.

IMdb.

It has been sighted 42,000 times in 68 countries. A creature of myth and legend known by several names; Yeti, Sasquatch and the infamous Bigfoot! We've hunted it for years, but what happens when it decides to hunt us? "Abominable" centers on a man recovering from a mountain climbing accident, trapped in a remote cabin in the woods, who sees the legendary beast, and must convince someone to believe him, before the monster goes on a bloody rampage.
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Fango report on that:

April 3: ABOMINABLE DVD and screening updates

Updates are flying fast and furious regarding the rampaging-Bigfoot movie ABOMINABLE. Freestyle Releasing (distributors of THE DARK HOURS, THE ROCKVILLE SLASHER and HEADSPACE) has acquired the movie’s DVD rights, but will open the Ryan Schifrin-directed film first in limited theatrical release in LA and Seattle on April 14. The film will then debut on the Sci Fi Channel May 20, with the DVD release following later in the summer.

In other ABOMINABLE screening news, actress Ashley Hartman (pictured; see her hot spread here) will join Schifrin, producer Theresa Schifrin and fellow stars Matt (HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE) McCoy and Haley Joel at the film’s world premiere on April 10 as part of FANGORIA’s Monster Mondays screening series. The ABOMINABLE Big Apple debut will take place at New York City’s Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East 3rd Street and Avenue A). at 7 p.m. See here for further info, and click here for advance tickets.

It’s been a good week for Schifrin; the filmmaker just sold an action/comedy script called WIMPY to Alcon Entertainment and producer Neal (URBAN LEGEND) Moritz and his Original Film company. See FANGORIA #253 (on April 18) for an ABOMINABLE preview, and catch the movie’s cast and crew at the next FANGORIA’s Weekend of Horrors convention, presented by Anchor Bay Entertainment, to be held June 2-4, 2006 at LA’s Burbank Airport Hilton. See www.creationent.com for more details. —Tony Timpone
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www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=5872
 
If it's called Abominable, shouldn't it be a rampaging Yeti movie instead of a Bigfoot one? It's giving the apemen a bad name, too. Isn't this just a remake of the minorly notorious Night of the Demon?
 
I thought we had a thread about Bigfoot films but I can't find it (mods, please move this post if applicable). (and if this movie has already been posted about, blame it on the fact that I can't find the thread! :blah: )

Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch
 
Yan Yan the Yeti! It isnt on imdb and someone on the board once mentioned that it was a BBC based kids program but it was so long ago I cant remember. Basically it feature some kids on a river boat with a stolen Yeti if I remember rightly.
 
Although they're not movies I just thought I'd throw into the mix...

The Six Million Dollar Man had a Sasquatch episode. (I think The Bionic Woman met him as well). He was apparently from outer space I remember

And Doctor Who did a couple of Yeti stories. Robots with glowing balls in their chest!

Not really movies but worth noting me thinks given their place in popular culture. (Or unpopular culture)

mooks out
 
Bistoinferno said:
Yan Yan the Yeti! It isnt on imdb and someone on the board once mentioned that it was a BBC based kids program but it was so long ago I cant remember. Basically it feature some kids on a river boat with a stolen Yeti if I remember rightly.
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The movie was Zoo Robbery, a Children's Film Foundation production. Starred William Hartnell, in a bit of Fortean synchronicity.
 
There's a new Bigfoot film available at the moment from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, only it isn't a comedy. Sort of The Blair Bigfoot Project, it's available at various streaming services, and called Willow Creek. The story is about a couple seeking the location of where the Patterson Gimlin film was shot, but don't go expecting that to make an appearance. Nicely done, but very low budget if you can put up with the umpteenth found footage horror movie.
 
gncxx said:
There's a new Bigfoot film available at the moment from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, only it isn't a comedy. Sort of The Blair Bigfoot Project, it's available at various streaming services, and called Willow Creek. The story is about a couple seeking the location of where the Patterson Gimlin film was shot, but don't go expecting that to make an appearance. Nicely done, but very low budget if you can put up with the umpteenth found footage horror movie.
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Coincidentally, I've just watched this tonight. It was alright, but I didn't get the ending - I won't post spoilers but if you've seen it you will know what I mean.
 
I actually saw THE CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE at the theater circa 1979. Fairly entertaining indie film about a Sasquatch in Louisiana.

If we're talking TV, SCOOBY-DOO and other such cartoon shows had occasional Bigfoot and Yeti episodes -- with the creatures turning out to be someone in a skin. JONNY QUEST had a fake Yeti episode, but at the very end the real deal appears.
 
Willow Creek owes a debt to Boggy Creek (the first one) too, funnily enough.

davidplankton said:
gncxx said:
There's a new Bigfoot film available at the moment from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, only it isn't a comedy. Sort of The Blair Bigfoot Project, it's available at various streaming services, and called Willow Creek. The story is about a couple seeking the location of where the Patterson Gimlin film was shot, but don't go expecting that to make an appearance. Nicely done, but very low budget if you can put up with the umpteenth found footage horror movie.
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Coincidentally, I've just watched this tonight. It was alright, but I didn't get the ending - I won't post spoilers but if you've seen it you will know what I mean.
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SPOILERS:
I think it's meant to be mysterious, like the ending of Blair Witch. Something gets them, possibly whatever got the woman in the poster near the beginning (who apparently is who that is at the climax).
 
Missing Link: This stop-motion animated adventure film written and directed by Chris Butler is a Fortean Feast! Sir Lionel Frost is a hunter of Cryptids. As the film opens we see him along with his long suffering valet on Loch Ness as Frost uses bagpipes to attract Nessie. Things don't go well and his valet quits. Frost is determined to be recognised as a great explorer and goes in search of a Sasquatch in Washington State. But a rival hires an assassin to stop Frost. The Sasquatch turns out to be sentient, speaks and writes English but tends to take things literally. Don't ask him to throw a rope over a wall. He's the last of his kind and persuades Sir Lionel to take him to the Himalayas to meet the Yetis.

Really well imagined models and beautiful scenery along with a witty script male this film a delight. There is a great bar room brawl scene, so typical of Westerns but incredibly well choreographed in this instance. Frost is like Captain Ahab on Nessies back as he rescues his valet. Overhead filming works really well to illustrate the changing terrain from the US to France to the Himalayas. The adventurers club is full of stuffed shirts who want to kill animals and plant flags on mountains but the potential stereotypes become amusung through verbal and visual gags. An adventure which will thrill kids of all ages. 8/10.
 
Laika are great, a shame Missing Link has flopped. They do seem to make toons for rarefied tastes.
 
Word of warning: if you settle down with The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot expecting a wacky cryptozoological adventure, it's mostly a sombre film about romantic regret. No, the romance isn't with Bigfoot. Or Hitler.
 
Bigfoot (2012): This made for TV movie attracted rally bad reviews but I found it entertaining. The Bigfoot in question is actually Kig Kong sized and us woken from it's slumber in the Black Hills of Dakota by hunters and bulldozers. He soon kills and eats the hunters, casting the dozers aside like toys. The trees are being cleared to make space for a rock festival organized by an ex-rock star who is really a bit of a con artist. But Alice Cooper does turn up. A guy who played in the same band as him is now an environmentalist and is trying to stop the tree felling. It's quite funny with some genuine horror though as Bigfoot picks people up and bites their heads off. Worth watching. Directed by Bruce Davison, written by Micho Rutare and Brian Brinkman. On Legend Channel. 6/10.
 
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