Maybe the Hunt Isn't On in Bigfoot Lives 2: A Movie Review

*full disclosure: a DVD screener of this film was provided by Gravitas Ventures.

Director: Tom Biscardi.

Writers: Jim Snell and James Snell.

Cast: Tommy Biscardi Jr., Tom Biscardi and Terral Evans.

Cryptozoologists may want to properly define when the term Bigfoot can be used. Quite often, they are associated with sightings in the Pacific Northwest, but this mysterious species of man-ape can be found nearly anywhere around the world! In the cold wastelands of the Arctic, they are known as the Wendigo. And other people may refer to them as the Sasquatch. Elsewhere, they have a regional name given to them by the First Nations people.

With Bigfoot Lives 2, filmmaker and self-professed “bigfoot” hunter Tom Biscardi documents his search in an area that not many folks tend to associate the beast with. From Louisiana, going into Kentucky and wandering into and Alabama, the team is chasing after local legends like the Tally-po, a canine like beast, or Honey Island Swamp Monster, the southern equivalent of the Bigfoot.

As a product that is catering to a specific market, not even couch cryptozoologists can find this video worth viewing. The biggest problem this documentary has is that it does not capture interest right away. There’s no draw to send curiousity seekers in. And the product is coming from an individual that not many fellow hunters may choose to recognize.

Good or bad, this filmmaker has a reputation. He will have to work hard to prove himself to the community and this video does not seem like the product to go bragging about. This video shows some of his enthusiasm, but that is not enough. The product has no drama or humour to help keep the story going. From the people that Biscardi managed to assemble as his team to the folks he chose to interview, they look like they do not really care much about the video that is being made.

The documentary works like a hodge-podge of talk, random video and supposed evidence of the various beasts hiding in the Appalachian Mountains.

The biggest problem is the choice of music. It does not complement the piece at all. Instead, the songs are counter-intuitive. The soundtrack sets the viewer and narrator apart. Fairly soon, audiences start to tune everything being said out and will seek a better show on a television network than direct to video.

Maybe the only Bigfoot that can be found here is with the ego this producer has in trying to prove that he can find a large monkey in the woods. He’s better off travelling to the Amazon and finding a lost tribe of headhunters instead. Now that would be an adventure!

Overall: 3 out of 10.

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