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The latest episode of the Filmsquatch podcast is here, and this time we’re talking about the “BREAST” Bigfoot movie ever made… or so the poster says. Lol.
We’re reviewing the 2022 film Bigfoot or Bust, a wild Bigfoot movie about a group of women on the hunt for the legendary creature.
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Hello, and welcome to Film Squat. The podcast where two guys from the Deep South watch and review movies about Bigfoot. It's that simple. Each episode takes a look at a single film about a Sasquatch or a Yeti, and the guys break it down for you. Patrick and Kendall are true believers, but they're too old, too fat, and too lazy to get up off their sofas and go hunt for a Sasquatch themselves. So they just sit back and watch movies about it. Now, let's head over to the Film Squatch screening room, where Patrick and Kendall are ready to discuss their latest film.
SPEAKER_01Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Film Squatch. I'm Patrick Bennett, and with me as always is the crazy Cajun himself, Kendall Fontenot. Hey Kendall, what's up, man?
SPEAKER_02Oh man, I'm busting at the scenes for today's episode. Operative word is bust, right? Bust, yes. So today we're going to be taking a look at 2022's Bigfoot or Bust.
SPEAKER_01You know, Kendall, uh, every once in a while, every once in a while a Bigfoot movie comes along that is so bad it's actually good. This is not one of those movies, man. But let's take a look at the trailer and we'll be right back. The bulls are all getting ready to come tomorrow morning. Are we ready? No, we need to shoot them in the ball. All right, man, we're back. Uh this film was directed, written and directed by uh Jim Wynorski. I'll tell you what, um, when I was in junior high and high school, I loved this director, man. I saw some of his movies at the theater, and a lot of times, like Friday nights at Blockbuster, these are the movies I was like seeking out to rent. Uh, I mean, probably one of his biggest ones theatrically was uh the Return of the Swamp thing. But uh he directed that one. He he directed uh Chopping Mall. You remember that sci-fi horror film?
SPEAKER_02Chopping Mall.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, and then he did some other low low budget uh B movies. He he did like uh The Lost Empire and uh Death Stalker 2, and there's a sci-fi one uh called Not of This Earth. But his movies I love. I was always seeking out his his stuff, and uh I don't know what happened with this one, man. I don't know what happened, it's kind of kind of sad. Uh but um you want to give us the premise of it?
SPEAKER_02Uh well, pretty much uh a gang of uh ladies that have been looking for Bigfoot in the past decide to go looking for him once again, and then uh one lady in particular, a character by the name of Jesse James, she is out for revenge against Bigfoot. And you got a couple of bumbling cousins out there too who are looking for Bigfoot, and that's pretty much the whole movie. They're they're trying to catch Bigfoot, and uh the four ladies that that team up together talking about the the big busted skinks, yeah, yeah. They uh they have um each one of them has a different reason for uh hunting Bigfoot, and my favorite one was uh Cindy Lucas as Daisy May, who just wants to be famous. And I I I thought she of the entire cast, she was the one that sold her character the most. Um, that's not saying a lot, but she did. I I laughed more at her than any other character in the movie. Um, it it also stars uh Gail Thackeray as Dr. Dawn, uh Christine Wynne as Tilly Takahashi, uh Becky LeBeau as Becky LeBeau as Penny Blossom, and Rocky DeMar DeMarco as Jesse James. And uh if you were around in the night late 90s and early 2000s, and you watch Cinemax, you've probably seen a lot of the work that most of these ladies have done. Uh and but but I will say this: it looks like they had a blast making this movie. Uh they knew what they were doing, and they they just went with it. Uh, Becky LeBeau and Rocky DeMarco actually worked on the soundtrack. And uh Becky LeBeau, in my opinion, she had some pretty decent songs in this movie. Um, she reminded me of Vixen. You remember the old band Vixen, the all-female rock band from the 80s? Uh her sound was a lot like Vixen to me, not as good as Vixen, but in that same realm, that same hair metal, glam metal, whatever you want to call it. I loved all that stuff back then. I grew up on that stuff, and um she reminded me a lot of that. I thought she did really well. Rocky DeMarco, not so much. I think her thing was since her character was tough, her songs were tough, and I I didn't buy it. But yeah, I I have to give respect to Becky LeBeau. I thought she did a really good job with her music in this film.
SPEAKER_01Let's talk about the uh the acting in this film or the lack of okay.
SPEAKER_02Well, you you start us off.
SPEAKER_01All right, all right, I'll start start us off. Uh man, I think you can go to Walmart right now and just randomly grab any five shoppers and bring them back, and they could act better than the people in this movie. Now, look, I think the only real actor in this movie was the male, uh, what's the name? Paul Logan. I mean, he's done a bunch of movies. Oh, yeah. He was in a long-running soap. Yeah, I think he was the only actual actor in the whole movie, you know, that that could act.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um yeah. And I forgot to mention the three space or future girls that come hunting for Bigfoot. I for I completely forgot about that subplot. There are three ladies that come from the future to find Bigfoot turds because apparently it's worth a lot of money in the future. And uh we might as well give them their uh their due. It was uh Tane McClure as the Space Girl leader, uh, Deborah Dutch as star, and and Tony Adorian as Space Girl 2.
SPEAKER_01I I think uh the acting was horrible in this film, but I think it was meant that way. I think they wanted it over the top style, you know. So I mean so I'm not gonna harp too much on the bad acting, but uh it is what it is, but but uh yeah. I think my favorite of the actresses was the uh the Asian girl they called uh Tilly. Yeah, I think I think Tilly Takahashi. Yeah, yeah. She was my favorite one. She had the sword.
SPEAKER_02Why was she your favorite?
SPEAKER_01Why? Well, these other ones are not hotties, they're like noddies. They probably were a hot like 20 years ago, but they're not anymore. They're overweight, sad women. But uh Tilly, she was the only one that was still kind of hot to me.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01All right. The other ones who had chubby, chubby old uh Carol.
SPEAKER_02Well, I I wouldn't say they were chubby. Not not all of them, at least. Um they're older ladies. Let's put I'm I'm gonna be nice. They were older ladies who at one time were probably well, they were extremely good-looking ladies back in the day. Um, but time catches up with all of us, and I'm the last person that needs to be talking about looks. But uh, but yeah, the uh the acting was not that good. Like you said, it was most likely done on purpose. Uh there are some extremely cheesy jokes throughout the film. Uh there are some uh random montage scenes, uh, like they have the whole porta potty dance sequence. Um and they then they have their their little sequence where they introduce all the characters and you know what they're doing to to to uh why they're going after Bigfoot. And yeah, it's just kind of a jumbled mess. Um I will say though, cinematography-wise, the shots, the the drone shots of Southern California were amazing. They were beautiful. I mean, they really were though the wide shots with the drone cruising through uh the hills of Southern California. I mean, it was beautiful. That was some beautiful uh work done by the cinematographer on that on the uh the film. Um, and like I said, before the music was good, the the Becky LeBeau music was good for me at least. I I liked it. Uh what about you, Patrick?
SPEAKER_01Well, I want to say, um, guys, if you're expecting gratuitous nudity, which it looks like this movie would be loaded with it, you're gonna be sadly disappointed because there's no nudity in film, you know. It's just these uh these old cougars wearing bikinis and and short shorts and other like uh provocative, skimpy clothing, but no nudity whatsoever. And there's also like a scene of them jumping on a uh trampoline in slow motion on a girl fire, trampoline montage, not a busy nudity. So you you're gonna if you're you're expecting this, you're gonna be uh sadly uh let down by it, but but yeah.
SPEAKER_02And uh let's talk about the the creature itself. Um they put uh obviously all the budget went to the creature in this film.
SPEAKER_01Whatever party city was charging at that time. Yeah, for the rack Jack Link's uh costume.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, this this was uh yeah, it was a it was a a bad Bigfoot costume. Uh I mean it's it's straight off the rack.
SPEAKER_01It was just like the one we just talked about in the other film, uh the not so great outdoorsman, the short film. They use the same costume, and you know it's weird you're talking about that porta potty scene. In that movie, they also had a porta-potty scene using the same costume. It was kind of like, wait a second, am I watching the right movie? It was it was like very reminiscent to me. But uh yeah, but yeah, yeah. But yeah, they didn't do a thing to alter this costume, it looked like they just took it straight out of the bag, put it on, and started filming, you know.
SPEAKER_02You could see the seams, you could see where the feet stop, you could see the seam on the back. It was uh yeah, and it got as with the acting. I think this was intentional. Yeah, I mean it was intentionally bad, and um so candle love there's not much else to say about that. What about the poster? What did you think of the poster? The poster is Bigfoot with his hands out, and three of the film stars on the cover um Becky LeBeau, uh Tilly Takahashi, her character, and Dr. Dawn. I can't remember the actress's names. Um, they're standing there with guns and Bigfoot's in the background. And this is the best Bigfoot movie ever made.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's I mean, it's that's funny. Uh one one line in the movie, I remember them saying something about uh Bigfoot likes big titties and big butts, big booties, he likes big butts, um, and he cannot lie, apparently.
SPEAKER_02Sorry about that. Uh but yeah, I mean it's just this movie. I really don't know what audience they were going for.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because, like you said, there's uh it should be a TNA movie. It's pitched as a TNA movie, and there's no TNA other than Scandalake Lion Women. Um, the acting is intentionally bad, the comedy is intentionally bad, the Bigfoot suit is terrible. Um, I don't know who they're looking for to watch this film, and uh I think that's where it falls really short. Is it it tried to be too many things to too many people? They should have just gone full TNA or full comedy cards and let the cards fall where they may. Um I don't know what what do you think about it? About the poster.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, talk about the poster, that's fine. No, I mean that that's all. That's all about the poster. There's much of a poster, it was just uh pretty pretty simple.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And then other than that, um did you have a favorite scene?
SPEAKER_01Not really. I kind of like the time travelers. Uh that was fun.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I liked I liked whenever they were about to go back and they changed outfits. She shot the girls with the ray gun, and she didn't like the suits one time, so she'd shoot them again or whatever. Um the the brother and the the oh, I'm sorry, the two cousins, uh, Rusty and uh Rusty Ready and Wally Reddy. I mean, I kind of like their intros whenever we we got to whenever they're talking to the camera and describing themselves. If there was a favorite scene, that would probably be it. I figured you would have liked the trampoline montage. I figured that would be your favorite scene. That one did have, I remember the the trampoline montage having a bad song in it. I think that was one of the DeMarco songs. But uh, but yeah, I uh do have to give it to Becky LeBeau. I think she missed her calling. She should have, you know, she should have had a an all-girl rock band back in the late 80s, early 90s. I think she would have had a pretty good career.
SPEAKER_01Well, man, you're ready to say no. I was gonna say you're ready to rate this. Um not much more to say about this movie.
SPEAKER_02No, um, as you all know, we rate movies, Bigfoot movies, on a scale of one to ten Bigfoot tracks, with one being the worst Bigfoot film ever made, and ten being the best Bigfoot film ever made, which in my opinion is the Legend of Boggy Creek. Um, Patrick, do you want to go first? Can you go first? You can go, man. You I'll let you go first. I'm not gonna uh I'm not gonna beat around the bush. Uh two Bigfoot tracks out of ten, and I'll only give it two because of Becky Laveau's music in this this movie and because of Sandy Lucas's performance. Because I thought she was genuinely funny. Um, as bad as they all were in the movie on purpose, I think. She was the best of the worst. I thought she did a really good job. So yeah, two Bigfoot tracks out of 10. How about you?
SPEAKER_01All right, man. I didn't even feel like uh there was a script to this movie, it was more like just an idea. And then the act, the so-called actors, they just went with that idea, you know. I don't I think that's what they did, man. Uh, I don't think there was a budget either. Um, if there was, it sure doesn't show up on screen. Um, I just don't feel like they gave the production much uh effort. This looked like some people got drunk and went out on a weekend and said, Hey, let's go make a movie. You know, that that's what I felt like I was watching. Uh yeah, it was actually it was disappointing to me because, like I said earlier, I'm a big fan of Jim Wynorsky. Uh, he made some great films when I was a kid, you know, that I really, really liked. And uh I thought this one was uh completely ridiculous. Uh I didn't think it was funny, I thought it was just sad. Okay, but as far as a rating, man, I'm gonna give this film one Bigfoot track. I just thought it was horrible.
SPEAKER_02Okay, that's fair. I uh I'm I don't disagree with you. Yeah, and I'm gonna leave it at that. Um I can't really recommend this one uh unless you're a fan of any one of the actresses that were in this movie. Um, I don't really recommend watching it. Um unless you're drunk or high and want to watch a Bigfoot movie, and no other Bigfoot movies available. Yeah, I I recommend it then. That's about it. Um with that being said, uh we just got back from Louisiana Comic-Con. And uh we had a good time. We we had two panels. Uh the first panel, we had a very light crowd, the second one had a much better crowd, the Cryptid Trivia panel. Um, that one went very well. We had a lot of crowd interaction. People seemed to enjoy themselves, and uh, I was surprised at how well the uh audience did. Uh we had one one couple, it was uh the it was uh the the the guy in particular in this couple. He got all but I think one of them correct. He only missed one of them. And um, so I was I was kind of impressed by that. Uh I've I've done this panel at Syphocon before in previous years, and I didn't stomp the entire crowd, but they were scattered, you know. They you know some of them knew the Bigfoot questions, some of them knew about Mothman, some knew about the frogmen, some of them knew about um Nessie, you know, just the different things like that. So uh the the crowd at Louisiana Comic-Con is their crypto. So yeah, that was a fun weekend. And details coming up, Patrick, or you want to mention anything about your short film?
SPEAKER_01Well, uh the short film is pretty much done except for music. We're just waiting on the music, it's a long process. I mean, we're we're using the actual music composer, and he's custom writing music for it, but he's got a full-time job as a composer with a studio in New Orleans, so he's very busy and he doesn't have a whole lot of free time to work on our project. He just works on it when he can. So we're gonna give him more time, but uh we want to make sure it's uh it's done done well. So just uh as soon as it is finished, you know, then we'll we'll put the music in and we'll have a premiere soon. So we'll keep you updated. So uh our next appearance is gonna be uh Siphocon. You have the dates for that?
SPEAKER_02Yes. It's gonna be April 10th through the 12th at the Lake Charles Event Center. For those of you who are local to Lake Charles or to Calcashi Parish, it used to be the Civic Center, the Lake Charles Civic Center, and now it's called the Lake Charles Event Center. And um, Siphacon always has a really good turnout. Um, those guys were quite quick. And uh we're glad to be back over there again this year. And uh hopefully we're gonna be doing two panels. Uh once I get more information on that, we'll be releasing that on the uh the socials. But uh other than that, don't have anything else going on that I'm aware of, not not in the near future at least. Um, is there anything else you want to talk about before we shut her down?
SPEAKER_01Well, I do want to say that at CypherCon, we will have the Tataimo D costume with us. So if you want to come by and check it out, it's going to be on a mannequin. You can take pictures with it and get a feel for what it what it was uh like, you know. But uh, it'll be there. We'll have a poster from the movie, we'll have Some lobby cards you can check out, and uh we'll we'll have some swag for you. So come by and say hi, tell us what your favorite Bigfoot movie is and pick up some swag.
SPEAKER_02So and with that, all I have now is to ask you this, Patrick. If I am a 50-year-old former softcore star, and I'm out in the forests of California, is there any advice you could be giving me? Yeah, jumping off the trembling. Is there any advice?
SPEAKER_01Watch your back. Bigfoot's out there.
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