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This is a pretty stultifying movie. It’s like Manos in parts, where the camera is pointed at nothing in particular for long minutes. It looks like it could be pretty amusing where there is actually (long pause) dialogue but I hope they pulled it off. One thing it has going for it is that there is relatively little flamenco guitar music in the score. Rather, there is lots of library music that fans of NOTLD, Teenagers from Outer Space and The Green Slime will recognize.
By the way, this is actually two movies in one. The Teenagers vs. The Thing was actually shot in 1958. 14 years later the “producers” shot another 20 minutes of prologue and dubbed it “Curse of Bigfoot”, though it’s really sort of a back woods version of The Thing from Another World more than a bigfoot movie.
The what of Whofoot? Sounds Awesome. If it’s like Manos I’m in.
By the way, this is actually two movies in one. The Teenagers vs. The Thing was actually shot in 1958. 14 years later the “producers” shot another 20 minutes of prologue and dubbed it “Curse of Bigfoot”, though it’s really sort of a back woods version of The Thing from Another World more than a bigfoot movie.
So, Curse is twenty minutes of “new” prologue plus the full 1958 movie? Wow. I love learning about Frankensteined movies. Monster A Go-Go, of course, is infamous for being uncompleted and then later salvaged (for some value of the term), and of course The Doomsday Machine was incomplete and was finished much later. And the American versions of Godzilla and Gamera had new footage to pad out the film.
But just tacking extra footage onto the start of an existing, completed film? Crazy.
But just tacking extra footage onto the start of an existing, completed film? Crazy.
There is one actor that appears in both segments, so the transition is perfectly seamless. And by seamless I mean ludicrous.
Wow! I think I had the “guest speaker/former science teacher” as my high school Earth Science teacher. Nerdy guy who tried to pass on his love of rocks to a room full of teenagers who were wondering how he ever managed to find a woman to marry him and bear his children. The only thing missing from the movie was the slide show of all of the “cool rocks” he saw on summer vacation… Yup, this movie was just like high school – long and not skipping a single, boring detail.
I recommend it!
This looks awesome! Can’t wait to get this DVD!
There is one actor that appears in both segments, so the transition is perfectly seamless. And by seamless I mean ludicrous.
That’s a relief. For a minute I was afraid it was going to be professionally done.
Ah, good times for msties.
Someone on the rifftrax forum said the little girl from Manos is in the newer parts of this. Can anyone back this up? Seems like too good of luck. An urban miff? A Fleetwood Mac-like rumor?
Someone on the rifftrax forum said the little girl from Manos is in the newer parts of this. Can anyone back this up? Seems like too good of luck. An urban miff? A Fleetwood Mac-like rumor?
Umm, yep, I guess she is. If IMDB is to be trusted. Neat!
Done watching the riffed version. Very funny! One of their best.
Yep, she sure knows how to pick em.
I’m guessing our little Debbie is the student talking in the classroom. And that black dog…looks oddly familiar. Could it be….the master’s?
“He looks like a police sketch of himself.”
Wow, an authentic movie that…shows you…stuff.
Wow, I just saw Kirk’s Rock! I like to think Kirk was battling the Gorn captain just over the hill from the students and their teacher.
Sounds promising. Glad to know little Debbie got a divorce from the Master.
#Steve Cartwright, you should watch the Godfrey Ho’s ninja movies.
This is one big “f…k you” to Cinematic Titanic.
This one is great for the MSTies who love the really dull movies. Lots of poorly-lit-yet-shot-in-daytime footage. All the action takes place in the last 15 seconds of the film. The transition between the older and newer sections is right up there with “I hear you’ve grown quite a mustache!” in terms of subtlety. But the riffing is great! Definitely worth the download.
#Steve Cartwright, you should watch the Godfrey Ho’s ninja movies.
Yeah, I get that a lot. Though IIRC usually because of dubbing-related hilarity, not so much editing.
I saw this film unriffed. Definitely one I will pick up if it comes out on DVD – and although I am not quite sure it is “Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny”-level awfulness…it IS pretty darned awful.
I got a $100 Rifftrax gift certificate for Christmas… it’s almost gone. I don’t know whether to be happy or sad.
But no matter what: thank you Rifftrax for another reason for me not to mow my lawn or leave my house. My descent into becoming a hermit is almost complete.
What a asinine statement Tab Hunter. Not sure if you’re trolling or what, but Rifftrax Forever!!!
Count me in on this one too!! Love that Rifftrax seems be heading back into MST3K territory with the horrible b-movies of yesteryear instead of the audio trax for current releases.
@ Haunted Hill: I think the Ice Cream Bunny reference is to the narrative structure: And remember, the guest lecturer is telling the class about this: then a man gazed at some trees and thought about logging…
This is one of my all time fave bad movies from when I was a very small child. So happy they’re doing it!
Watched the first half hour last night and was crying-laughing when Mrs. Gummo suddenly said, “Wait a minute. I’ve seen this…. no, wait, we HAVE this!”
And damn, if she wasn’t correct. We dug out our copy of Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958), lovingly downloaded from the Internet Archive, popped it into the player and voila!, there was the bulk of Curse of Bigfoot in all its glory.
We may have to go to a deprogramming clinic for our bad-movie love. We’re now in the position of finding we have Rifftrax and CT movies before they ever do them.
But what really puzzled me was this: does the color version of “Teenagers” that they use in “Curse” mean that the original film was shot in color in 1958 but only printed in black and white?
And re: the little girl in Manos appearing as a student in “Curse.” The universe of the Z movie is a small one, indeed.
And when the hell is Rifftrax going to release the live performance of Jack the Giant Killer!??
@21 – Think the Ice Cream Bunny reference is “Desperately cashing in on the one bit of fan cult attention they got as their own franchise.” (Which at first sounded more like Legend than like M&tB, so don’t get huffy.) ;)
They can’t beat Manos or Joe Don Baker references into the ground to feed the fanboys, so any bad film is going to be corporately compared to ICB when it’s bad enough. I haven’t seen the film yet, but it sounds backyard enough to at least merit the comparison.
@25 “Desperately?” I think you’re desperately trying to shoehorn anything and everything into your “Mike-is-Satan” fantasy world.
Have you seen how many releases Rifftrax has done? They seem to be doing quite well for themselves; demand must be fairly high to have financially justified cranking out so much material. Of course, that demand will be providing Mike and co. with a rather comfortable income for quite some time yet.
And there is not a damned thing you can do to change that.
Welcome to reality, EricJ. You have convinced no one to stop buying Rifftrax or to stop supporting Mike, Kevin, and Bill. Your one-track ramblings here only show what a bitter shell of a human you are.
Seriously, you could post the same message of “Mike is mean to nerds and I insist this makes him unfunny in all contexts and I will never support anything associated with him (except his being the head writer of MST3k since season 2)” and no one else would notice or care any more than they do currently.
The whole Mike is mean to nerds thing makes no sense! I never got the impression mike was captain of the football team in HS or president of a fraternity in college. Ericj you’ve obviously got serious mental problems and the fact that sampo hasn’t removed you from here makes me think I won’t be sticking around much longer. I certainly don’t need to read your insane drivel weekly when we get to the mike era in the episode guide. You bring NOTHING to the discussion except to show what a sad little loser you are. Grow the hell up. Shut the hell up.
EricJ! EricJ!
Thinks that Mike Nelson is Satan!
EricJ! EricJ!
Rambles about nerds!
EricJ! EricJ!
He wont shut up!
EricJ EricJ
Thinks that people come from trees! Oh, wait…
(Guess it’s time to post this again…)
To Whom It May Concern:
I would like to point out to our commentators that “EricJ” is actually longtime RATMM (rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc usenet group) troll and smug fool Derek Jannsen. A quick search into RATMM on Google groups will reveal postings by Mr. Jannsen that are eerily similar to the postings of “EricJ” on this site.
(And in case you haven’t gotten it yet: Eric J = Derek J)
Have a nice day.
Fun game (and “spoiler” alert): Try to figure out which three of the students standing around at the end of the movie spent the rest of their lives in a mental institution!
mstgator, no doubt. The movie ended so abruptly that they didn’t even have the opportunity to comment on that. Too bad rifftrax doesn’t have host segments. I’d like to see them bring them back.
@Castle Monster – I agree. I even enjoyed the ones from The Film Crew. I will say that they may not do them for a reason (time constraints, gentleman’s agreement with CT, would raise the cost of product, whatever) and no matter what I love the product they’re putting out now.
But who knows? We got them to remove the irritating guitar rift at the end of their tags so anything is possible if there’s a demand. If not… blackmail. I still have pics of Bill Corbet when he starred in the off off off Broadway (actually it was in Dayton, Ohio) version of “Oh! Calcutta!” that I could use.
I too saw this movie as a small chid, and hadn’t seen it since then! When I first saw Track of the Moon Beast and Boggy Creek II on MST, I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised that it had surfaced with a new title, but no. And now my circle of The Curse of Bigfoot is complete because I just watched the RT of it and it’s hilarious. #30, I wondered about that too. What madness-inducing thing happened, other than constant (like, Arctic-constant) late-night day?
Yes, host segments. Count me in. But I think they should keep them short and sweet and at the beginning and the end.
I have just watched the damn thing unriffed and without the 70’s padding, and, oh sweet Lord! Invasion of the Neptune Men seems like a fun ride in comparison. These guys are son nonchalant about a mummy-bigfoot thingy roaming their town. And the Bigfoot costume! The mutants in Teenage Caveman were more convincing. This movie feels like a weird crossing between Boggy Creek and Manos. In conclusion, I loved it!
I’m amazed that at the halfway point, one of the characters didn’t say “One of these days I’m gonna get that filthy animal!” before cutting to the credits.
Seriously, this movie is basically the full-length version of “The Geek”, just swapping the porn for even more padding and a worse Bigfoot costume.
The ending flabbergasted me. This may be the emptiest movie yet.
Bought, downloaded, and burned to DVD, yet I am afraid to watch this. :struggle:
Possible spoiler alert: Anybody notice that once Bigfoot is on the prowl (or the next morning, anyway), the brunette girl is suddenly absent? Maybe she got an early bus to the asylum…
@PrivateIron – I cannot agree more. The director took 473 minutes to set up the opening scene of burn victim Michael Myers slowly sneaking up on what appeared to be Journey’s lead singer Steve Perry in a dress feeding milk to a dog. Yet when the death of the monster/end of the movie comes it involves 16.2 seconds of “throw gasoline on costume, light, end film.”
I sat there in stunned silence as well.
CURSE OF BIGFOOT has been a longtime guilty pleasure of mine ever since my late pal and I first saw it in high school. I remember buying CURSE OF BIGFOOT on VHS back in the ’90s, then finding TEENAGERS BATTLE THE THING sometime later — only to say “Hey, this is the same damn movie!” I kept ’em both, nonetheless.
Some sources claim the older film was colorized for the ’70s “re-release,” but that appears to be a load of bollocks: there’s no way colorization in the ’70s could have done that good of a job. If I had to guess, I’d say the ’50s version was printed in black-and-white to save money, but was never actually released to theaters, or perhaps television; nobody’s ever come across any movie memorabilia for the title, to the best of my knowledge.
This movie was something. I guess the folks who put this thing together did a reasonably good job of connecting the 1970s portion of the movie to the 1950s part. I don’t know if anything else happens in that ’50s movie, but it sure ends poorly.
As for the comparison with Santa Claus and Ice Cream Bunny, I’d say that this one is worse. Not only is the overall print bad, the movie as a whole is just boring and inconsistent. It doesn’t even anything remotely weird, and thus interesting, in it like The Ice Cream Bunny. And at least that movie was just a horrid promotional film for a theme park, not some pieced together attempt at a monster movie.