When I see a title like Bigfoot Exorcist pop up on Tubi, I’m naturally going to watch it. With a title like that, the mind reels at the possibilities. Will this movie be about a Bigfoot who gets possessed and must receive an exorcism? Or (and potentially more entertaining), is it going to be about a possessed individual who must receive an exorcism, so Bigfoot goes to the seminary, becomes an ordained priest, and then performs an exorcism to save the poor dope’s soul?
To quote Jules in Pulp Fiction, “Now I like that, but that shit ain’t the truth.” It’s unfortunately a case of the former.
As you may expect with a movie called Bigfoot Exorcist, it’s pretty uneven. The opening scene is fun though. Bigfoot chases a woman through the woods, and the cameraman keeps giving us gratuitous close-ups of her heading bosom. Bigfoot then rips out her guts, pulls off her arm, and removes her skull. Another entertaining moment comes when the nun memorably flips off her Mother Superior. There are, however, inevitable doldrums in between the good stuff.
Jessa Flux (who you may recognize from the new Up All Night with Rhonda Shear) and her boyfriend are on vacation out in the woods where Bigfoot is supposedly lurking. As it turns out, the monster is kind of like a wereBigfoot. As in, a guy who turns into Bigfoot. (Even though he looks more like an albino alien with alopecia than a Sasquatch.) When Jessa’s boyfriend gets bitten by the creature, he naturally becomes a Bigfoot too. A nun tries to perform an exorcism on him and… well… it doesn’t help much.
Jessa is one of my favorite actresses of the last few years or so, and her appearance in anything is cause for celebration. Any scene with her is worth watching, but the rest of the movie is patchy at best and dull at worst. Bigfoot Exorcist was directed by Donald (Red Lips) Farmer, who certainly knows how to film a Bigfoot baby birthing scene. I just wish the rest of the film was a little more consistent. (Farmer and Flux also collaborated on Debbie Does Demons, which is much better.)
Jessa naturally gets all the best lines like, “I only drink rose wine because it’s pretty and pink, like me!” and “I ate two lobsters last night and I have to go jog them off!”
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