Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Bigfoot Wars’

Written by Scott Edwards

No matter where you live, you always hear stories about someone seeing a strange creature in the woods and it is usually Bigfoot. While it does not seem possible that there could be a massive hairy man living in the woods for so many years with so few pictures being taken of it, there are the occasional footprints spotted, unidentified hairs and sometimes even the discovery of a body. Even though science will not acknowledge the existence of such a creature, with so many people seeing it and even hunting it, there has to be something that is driving the masses to believe. Being on the fence about it, I would still like to know one way or another if the creature really does exist, but then I would have to question if it is nice or has violent tendencies. 
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Heading out to the woods to get away from the world and do some camping for the weekend, Steve and his friends have no idea what is awaiting them. While a couple of his friends make their way deeper into the woods for a little nookie, they find that they are not alone. Seeing a massive beast, they try to run, but they do not get far as the beast starts ripping them to shreds. Back at camp, things are just as bad as the large hairy beasts lay waste to it and take what they want. With no escape in sight, the friends are on their own, only to find that they are no match for the Bigfoot of Boggy Creek.

Arriving on the scene to see all of the carnage, Sheriff Jim Taylor chalks it up to another bear attack and will not listen to any of the Bigfoot claims coming from his deputy. Heading back into town to try to stay ahead of whatever is coming his way from the parents of Steve McTee, he gets a call that a young woman, Dakota, has been picked up by a former employee and she appears to be out of her mind. Seeing that the young woman is worse for the wear, Jim sits down with Doctor Leonard Evans for a chat that might start to open his eyes as to what is going on in his town. As the Doctor explains to the Sheriff that the bodies that have been brought in have no consistencies with a bear attack, he cannot offer a suggestion about what kind of creature caused these kinds of injuries.

Talking to his former employee Mark about what he saw, one story of Bigfoot makes its way back into his head. Not wanting to believe that there could actually be a creature like that in the woods, Jim finds out he has a missing girl on his hands from the group that was ravaged, but that becomes secondary to him when he finds out that his daughter is also missing after another one of these attacks. Not letting anything stop him, Jim mounts up with his deputy and old friend Zeke to go on a hunting trip to put the legend to rest once and for all. With only his daughter on his mind however, Jim finds out that there are many more people that need protection from these beasts in the woods and he may be the only one that can save them.

Talk about a Bigfoot movie that does not pull any punches when it comes to how violent they are. Seeing people getting shredded and torn limb from limb, I mean wow, just wow. I like how the sheriff is reluctant to listen to the Bigfoot legend until his daughter becomes the latest victim and he is forced to believe. Zeke was a huge surprise and stole the movie, a redneck that knows much more about the world than anybody else. With plenty of blood, people being slashed, people being torn limb from limb, a soft spot for women and a killer beast older than the trees, if you thought that Bigfoot was nice and cuddly, you might want to think again. Stay Scared.

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