Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

Ivan Marx, Bigfoot Hunter I always caught what I sought after….except Bigfoot. From the public domain, I watched what is basically a nature documentary from 1976 regarding an adventurer/hunter/photographer obsessively pursuing a Bigfoot after an encounter shook him into action. I am an avid fan of 70s Bigfoot fare, so watching Legend of Bigfoot was a given eventually. I didn’t really have anything here to add that wasn’t covered in my imdb review on Christmas day in 2008, but it was a film that was on my mind. This film plays up the threat of the Bigfoot with how the “animals seems so scared” when it could be nearby. I like how Ivan Marx really emotes in his narration. If he’s mad as hell and can’t take it anymore, you know it (like those damned skeptics criticizing his “evidence”), or frustrated (on wild goose chases that lead to tracks of other animals nowhere near the size of Bigfoot). I think as a nature travelogue, this is right out of old school Mutual of Omaha doc...

Poltergeist III He wants Carol Anne now before she grows up. Youth is a strong life force. Innocence is pure life force. We lose strength as we lose our innocence. You see, innocence is the only gift we’re given in life. All else must be fought for. In that gift is purity. In that purity lies strength. This is actually my favorite scene. They gave Rubinstein the Razzie just because she returned in this film, not because she does anything different than in the first film. It is easy to kick a woman when the film she’s in stinks up the nostrils with its stench. Another reason I like the scene is how it kind of haunts me in its dialogue about little Carol Anne preyed upon before “she grows up”. I don’t know: knowledge of what happened to O’Rourke just provides something tragic to this line of dialogue. The abundant use of a fog machine and constant reliance of mirror tricks can only carry you so far if the story is positively worthless. At least, I took the sce...