Big Foot: The Lost Coast Tapes

2012

Big Foot: The Lost Coast Tapes

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Movie Info

After a "Bigfoot Hunter" claims to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch, a disgraced investigative journalist stakes his comeback -- and the lives of his documentary film crew -- on proving the find to be a hoax. (C) Official Site

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By:

Corey Grant
Written By:

Brian Kelsey, Bryan O'Cain
In Theaters:

Oct 19, 2012 limited
On Disc/Streaming:

Nov 13, 2012
Runtime:

87 minutes
Studio:

Xlrator Media

Cast

Drew Rausch

Rich McDonald

Ashley Wood

Noah Weisberg
as Frank Ashmore

Frank Ashmore

Critic Reviews for Big Foot: The Lost Coast Tapes

All Critics (7) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (3)

Seen it before? Sure you have. And this horror flick has exactly nothing new to say, or add, to that threadbare horror clich.

November 1, 2012 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Soren Andersen
Seattle Times
Top Critic
This found-footage horror film about the search for Sasquatch is the latest tired entry in an overworked genre.

October 19, 2012 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic
The long and inglorious list of Bigfoot movies just got longer and more inglorious.

October 19, 2012

Dennis Harvey
Variety
Top Critic
"Bigfoot" wanders straight into every tired trope and trap of the conceit.

October 19, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic
What it lacks in scares, it makes up for in sheer competence - which frankly is more than can be said about a lot of its ilk.

January 9, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Mark H. Harris
Black Horror Movies
A chilling, unnerving and psychologically horrifying experience.

October 22, 2012 | Rating: 7.0/10 | Full Review…

Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes is a decent time-waster.

October 12, 2012 | Full Review…

Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com

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Audience Reviews for Big Foot: The Lost Coast Tapes

Sep 15, 2012

slow, makes you think something epic is coming up, like most films these days do, but nothing happens. just a run around found footage film with nothing worth watching.

Shawn M Super Reviewer
Sep 08, 2012

Like found footage movies, love Bigfoot. In The Lost Coast Tapes a TV journalist decides to give a man $75,000 to see a Bigfoot corpse and prove it's a fake. Quite why he thinks making yet another show proving Bigfoot is a fake is worth his life savings is anyone's guess. They get out to the woods and of course start to hear noises and see trees rustling. It plays its found footage premise pretty well. There are no real contradictions in sound or shots, however the cast try far too hard to be quick and witty. The dialogue is also constantly riddled with references to the show they are making. The obsession of Sean, the lead. Is enough to convince us that they would continue to keep the cameras rolling, as he is in fear of being made to look the fool at the hands of someone's prank. Unfortunately, towards the end, the film adds a very interesting spin to the Bigfoot myth, but fails to elaborate on it. This wouldn't be so bad, bu it brings it in in the last few minutes and seems to use it at an excuse to not show anything. I'm all for leaving some things to the imagination, but sometimes a film's ideas do warrant further exploration. Up until the end you can kind of guess everything that happens, and apart from the actual violence all of these things can be seen in a show like Finding Bigfoot, which is a lot more fun because it tries so hard to convince you of what's real. Not the worst found footage film or Sasquatch film, but that isn't saying much.

Luke B Super Reviewer