Tuesday, February 16, 2010

DVD Review: Bigfoot: A Beast On The Run


Principals: Java Bob, Tom Biscardi, Jason Valenti, Todd Limberg (who got an unusual recording), Henner Fahrenbach (who listens to the recording and says it matches his experience)

Valenti and a group go to a place known as Area 62 to do call-blasting

Meanwhile, Biscardi and his group go to an area to investigate sightings near Happy Camp, California, circa 2005

Todd and a friend head to Longbow, a research conference in Oregon

M.K. Davis and his work on the P/G Film (pre-Massacre nonsense) are profiled as well

The Ray Wallace claims are examined as well, in connection with the P/G Film (it is claimed that Wallace's wife was in the suit)

Switch to the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who gives the P/G Film a thumbs-up and discusses some of the footprints, including the one with the mid-tarsal break

The narrator says that Bigfoot is tabloid science, but several new species were discovered in 2005 alone, plus the more strange aspects, such as Bigfoot and UFOs, interdimensionality and other weird stuff

Meldrum is asked how this affects his research; he says he is not worried about it

A Native American, Twiulich of the Karuk tribe shares what Bigfoot is to he and his people

Twiulich is not impressed with Biscardi and his group in Happy Camp

Two members of the group are in an area searching for evidence (Linda Martin and Robert Storey)

Thom Powell is next seen at his home, where he searches his garden for tracks

Powell is attempting to raise bees to produce honey to attract a 'Squatch to Powell's home

He has a camera set up to take a photo

Powell has a few blobsquatches, but nothing definitive

Back to the Longbow Conference, where we meet Neal Bergstahler, a paranormal Bigfoot advocate who claims he has knowledge of two Sasquatches that were held in a facility in the 60's but escaped

Meldrum is skeptical of Bergstahler's claims

Powell says that strange things have happened around his home indicating possible thievery of Bigfoot items

We next head to Idaho where we meet Don Monroe. He offers to take the film crew into a cave where he says Bigfoot lives

He shows what he claims to be a posterior cast taken in a cave

Don Monroe wants to capture a Sasquatch

Dr. Fahrenbach also takes the film crew to the Cascades

The Glen Thomas Pits are seen where Thomas saw a family of Sasquatches in 1967 eating ground squirrels

Bergstahler is describing the supposed 'Squatch-orbs playing in people's hair at his work place!!!

We next go to Peggy Marx's home (yes, the widow of Ivan Marx)

Peggy claims she photographed Sasquatch many years ago

Meldrum examines the photo and declares it a hoax

Biscardi seems to be badmouthing those who declare the Marx photos and films hoaxes

Biscardi makes more grandiose claims of capturing a Bigfoot

Biscardi again says that by the time the movie comes out that a Bigfoot will be captured

Biscardi says the capture will happen within 48 hours

Limberg's recording is presented to Jeff Meldrum, who says it sounds familiar to other alleged Sasquatch recordings

No captured Bigfoot since the movie was filmed

All the principals have their own opinions on the reality of Sasquatch

Next: The Extra Content

The extra content features Fahrenbach, Storey, Martin, a skeptical person and basically all the principals of the piece.

Meldrum is given a good bit of time to discuss Sasquatch ecology and observations

All in all, I would give this production about a 4 3/4 out of 5 stars. Really excellent documentary

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