At Horror Nation, we work around the clock to bring our supporters the latest updates on all the happenings in the world of horror entertainment. It was shocking to our staff to uncover a new movie, “Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot,” which was released direct to DVD with little to no press coverage. A film staring comedic legend Tom Green no less, should have had some press or at the very least a social media following, alerting the public to the movie’s release. After watching the movie (no one should ever use the adjective film regarding this work) there are astronomical reasons as to why it was never promoted properly.
never promoted properly.
After his wife is killed by an alleged bigfoot, Professor Cory Mathis (Les Stroud) interviews folks who have had similar experiences. His research leads him to a backwoods town in rural Missouri. Forest ranger Billy Teal (Tom Green) and his brother attempt to stop Mathis and his crew in order to get in good with the Men In Green (a mythical federal agency that hides the existence of bigfoots.) While chasing down the legend, the movie introduces: Gloria, Mathis’s assistant, who happens to have a child with Mathis’s son. Locals who are looking for the hairy walking myth to collect on a million-dollar bounty. A movie production team that is out to make a bigfoot snuff film. And many more forgettable characters that just pop up all the way through to the third act of the film, with zero explanation or plausible reason. All must try to survive the elements, each other, and the fearsome creature to acquire their set out desires.
“Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot” is without a doubt, the worst movie ever conceived of and shot. A five-year-old with an Etch A Sketch could put together a more cohesive production than this awful piece of cinema. The only forgivable part of this disgusting project is the performances. No one can hold a performer accountable for the written word put before them, however; not one single line or dialogue remotely resembles anything close to professional during the absurd nearly two hour run time. Green himself stumbles through the movie as if he just woke up from a two-day bender. One must imagine that he either owed a debt or a favor to writer/director Thomas Smugala. Smugala should never be allowed near a camera or a lap top again. The plot of the movie is not only incomprehensible but offensive to any aspiring artist that may never get the same opportunity that was afforded to him. A saving grace, like all creature features, could have been an original or slick looking new bigfoot. Like the entire piece, the bigfoot design is lazy and embarrassing. Bigfoot looks like former NFL great Franco Harris, if the legendary athlete had ventured into the woods after his last super bowl win and reemerged thirty years later. With a ridiculous plot, horrendous writing, and zero passionate performances, the movie still has one more hideous point to mention. That is the ridiculous two hour run time, as if the team behind the movie actually wants their audience to suffer more. At no point during this eternally painful watch, does anything remotely suggest that the film need about forty extra set piece scenes. At the end of the day, “Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot” makes “Troll 2” look like “The Omen”
Scream Score: 1/10 (the movie gets a 1 out of empathy for any of the crew that did not want to be there but may have needed a paycheck)