Clawed - The Legend of Sasquatch
by Karl Kozak
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Actor: Brandon Henschel, Chelsea Hobbs, Dylan Purcell, Jack Conley, Miles O'KeeffeDirector: Karl Kozak
Brand: First Look Pictures
Producer: Bill Bragg
Writer: Karl Kozak
Producer: Andre Johnson
Producer: Chuck Colclasure
Producer: Dick Fisher
Producer: Joel Eisenberg
Writer: Don J. Rearden
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: First Look Pictures
DVD Reviews of Clawed - The Legend of Sasquatch
DVD Review: "Save The Bear, Kill The Mayor..."
Summary: 2 Stars
"Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch" (also known as "The Unknown") is a supernatural horror-thriller set in the northwest with a ridiculous premise, a lot of overacting, and a plot you've seen variations on many, many times before. It seems that Echo Mountain is Sasquatch central, and killings have begun with the deaths of poachers on the mountain. Authorities suspect bear attacks, but wise old Sheriff Drake Kassel (Jack Conley) and Native American spiritualist and Park Ranger John Eagleheart (Nathaniel Arcand, who gives the best performance in the movie) suspect otherwise. Of course tourist season is starting and the mayor wants the story buried so as to not interfere with tourist season. (Wasn't there a little movie about a shark that had a similar backstory? Oh, never mind.) Anyway, in a different subplot two high school seniors, one a brainy geek and one a stupid jock, are assigned to do a project on endangered species together over spring break by their abusive teacher. (How exactly is it fair to jeopardize the smart kid's grade when nobody else has been assigned a joint project. Wait...oh, never mind.) Of course the two boys dislike each other and that provides much dramatic tension (in the minds of the filmmakers at least.) They secure two girls and go camping to do a videotaped project on endangered species; apparently the teens had seen "The Blair Witch Project" by the looks of it. I guess the library was too obvious of a way to gather information.
Of course the poachers and teens collide in the woods in a wholly predictable mess. The bigfoot stalks both parties, but only attacks the poachers, who have some kind of weird vendetta against Eagleheart. We learn many things from this cast, most of which you probably didn't want to know. First there's the obligatory story about how the white man tormented Native Americans a couple of hundred years ago (which is not relevant to the story, but gets some ideology into the film,) then there's the detailed information about how yetis can smell menstruating women. The bigfoot nose knows.
The cast constantly irritated me, especially the dumb jock Jay Kelter (Brandon Henschel,) who I waited in vain for the entire movie to die in a horrible Sasquatch massacre. Of course the boys learn that they have much in common and bond in the woods while they are chased hither and yon by the bigfoot. Eventually they run into the remnants of the poacher sect ("We may be dumb, but we ain't stupid.") The stupidest of the poachers (and the biggest overactor of the film) gets ahold of one of the teen girls and takes her hostage in an attempt to lure Eagleheart into the open for a duel. This is perhaps the stupidest plotpoint in a film filled with discontinuity, poor editing, and questionable character motivations. Predictably, the geeky teen saves the day, everyone sees the bigfoot, and they capture it on videotape as the Sheriff shows up to wrap up the investigation.
With ten minutes or so left to run, with the poachers dead, the teens friends, and romance in the air, you would expect that the most unbelievable part of the movie had passed. Wrong! The students give their report on Sasquatch to their unimpressed teacher, and in a convoluted and totally implausible scheme frame him as foisting fraudulent bigfoot video on the public, leading to the mayor to rail against him, and obviously leading him to the unemployment office. My question: did they graduate? If they didn't do well on their project, the answer was no, so I guess not. Maybe for their summer school makeup coursework they can take a field trip to Loch Ness.
The film closes with an extremely hokey pseudo-spiritual monologue from Eagleheart, and raises the question of whether bigfoot is a corporeal being or some kind of trans-dimensional traveler of the space-time continuum. At that point I didn't know, and I didn't care.
I generously gave the film two stars for a semi-scary bigfoot (better than a lot of other movie bigfeet anyway,) and some unintended hilarity suitable for lovers of B-movies. It's nothing you haven't seen in some form or another, but it's not the worst bigfoot movie I've seen by a long shot. It comes with a "Making of Clawed" feature and some deleted scenes, which is more that I expected of a film in this genre. Bigfoot completists should see this; people who enjoy bad movies may enjoy it as well, but general audiences should stay far away from Echo Mountain and its footwear-challenged residents.
Description of Clawed - The Legend of Sasquatch
According to a tale told for generations in pine creek many years ago a group of hunters were found slaughtered in the woods. Now four high school seniors a park ranger & a park of revenge hungry gunmen are going to find out what has been killing people. Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 05/16/2006 Run time: 85 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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