Director – Elliott Scott (Frog Monster, Snow Beast: Blood Massacre)
Starring – Nur Alan, Elise Anderson, and Emily Antonyk (Gustov)
Release Date – 2025
Rating – 1/5
I love all horror but I have a soft spot for no budget creature features. Seeing a filmmaker turn something out of nothing is truly remarkable even if the film is not one that I found enjoyable. A few weeks back I was browsing hashtags on Instagram when I came across the page for Splatter Films 69.
I decided to follow them and after a few days I found a message from the page with a link to I Believe in Bigfoot: Mating Season. A no budget cryptid flick was just what I needed in my life so I decided to check it out. I want to thank Splatter Films 69 for sending this one over!
**Spoiler Alert** The film follows a small town cop who has arrested someone in connection to a string of murders. However, they have the wrong guy as the real murderer is the infamous bigfoot. With a knack for murder, he is still killing in the woods when the FBI gets involved which only gives him even more opportunity to murder. **Spoiler Alert**
I went into I Believe in Bigfoot: Mating Season completely blind. I knew absolutely nothing about it but that wouldn’t have mattered. I have no idea who this movie was made for but I would love to meet them so I can pick their brains because this movie is something else. I don’t mean that in a good way.
The acting in this one is the most confusing thing I’ve ever tried to review. I’m a huge fan of Chris Seaver and his films so I’m very accustomed to acting being bad on purpose as a way to get laughs or cover inexperience. However, this film features some of the stiffest performances I’ve seen in film. The dialogue is flat and the cast shows zero emotion. I can’t tell if this was done on purpose or is the lack of experience and direction. With that being said, if it was on purpose then it failed to deliver any laughs.
The story for this one is a sequel to I Believe in Bigfoot which I was unaware of at the time. In this sequel we follow incompetent FBI agents as they scour the woods for clues to a murder investigation as they get picked off one by one by the elusive bigfoot. I could really get behind a movie this simple around bigfoot especially if it was meant to be a horror comedy but I Believe in Bigfoot: Mating Season had zero laughs and the story went nowhere. I plan on watching the first film in the next few weeks to see if that will help me with some of the questions I have.
Finally, don’t go into this one expecting fun effects. We have a bigfoot Halloween costume, a gun that looks like it’s from a high school auxiliary team, and several lazy deaths with no imagination. Overall, I Believe in Bigfoot: Mating Season is a film that has left me confused. I hope it was meant to be funny but I couldn’t find any humor in it. I love a good bad movie but this one was damn near impossible to finish. I can’t tell you to skip it because I feel every genre fan has to sit through this one at least one time.
