Bigfoot's Wild Weekend (2012)

PC3's Horror and Exploitation Movie Scale of Awesomeness!

Alas, I have discovered the peak of cinema! It’s all downhill from here, folks. Not even Spielberg at his best can top Bigfoot’s Wild Weekend.

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a hair. Or maybe I’m exaggerating a whole sasquatch-worth of hair. Because this is pretty damn far from peak cinema. But I did have fun.

The plot is kind of all over the place, but the film is essentially about a tabloid reporter in search of Bigfoot, along with a surprisingly large cast of other characters. There’s a lots of beer, bikinis, and bare breasts. Perfect for a silly B movie.

While I enjoyed Bigfoot’s Wild Weekend overall because of its intentional hilarity and absurdity, along with a heavy helping of exploitation, I was perplexed by the scope of what the filmmakers tried to do. Despite the obvious micro budget they were working with, they had several storylines going at once, like some complex Tarantino film, with a total of fifty-four characters. That’s right, fifty-fucking-four characters in a low budget film. That’s an insanely large cast for this kind of flick. And that’s not counting the rest of the crew.

You’d be shocked to find out that the bloated number of storylines causes incoherence and loose ends all over the place. (That’s sarcasm, folks.) We have the bikini-clad reform school girls who just kind of disappear in the second half of the movie. There are the two girls who randomly see Bigfoot twice, but the viewers are never let in on who these chicks even are. There is the couple whose truck breaks down in the woods, who end up going Bigfoot hunting with a couple of hicks, but then just kind of vanish from existence at some point. Two guys getting high with Bigfoot. The fisherman who finds Bigfoot tracks in the beginning. The two bare-breasted bimbos who ask Bigfoot to go swimming with them. It goes on and on like this, with random scenes that don’t really connect to anything.

But what do you expect from a movie with a title like Bigfoot’s Wild Weekend?

Look, I could spend all day listing the faults this film has. Because the faults are numerous. But there is no point in doing that with a schlock film. We accept such problems with schlock. In fact, we expect them!

Bigfoot’s Wild Weekend is great fun. While hunters and reporters and hillbillies are all trying to track down our hairy friend, he’s just going from one place to the next drinking beer, smoking weed, and stealing girls’ panties. Nope, I’m not joking.

PC3’s Horror and Exploitation Movie Scale of Awesomeness!

Gore - 0

Special Effects - 3

Nudity/Sexuality - 9

Wow Factor - 5

Acting - 3

Fear Factor - 0

Story/Plot/Originality - 3

Cinematography - 3

Sound/Music - 2 (the sound was really bad)

Fun Factor - 8

So, Bigfoot’s Wild Weekend gets a 36 on the PHEMSA. That’s pretty damn high considering how poorly it did in most categories. Just goes to show how being purposely schlocky and showing lots of boobies can benefit a film on this rating system. It needed gore. Some good Troma-like gore would have put this one over the top. Oh well, it was pretty fun anyway.