Sunday, June 5, 2011

Primal (2007)

Hikers who are behind schedule head off the trail and off the map to meet their fate at the hands of a strange looking sasquatch wearing an ape suit. Six months later, another group of students shows up to survey the land as an oil company wants to lease the land from the Bureau of Land Management. They are directed to go into the protected land that possibly "no human has ever touched." Ooooo-kay, sure are a lot of people around this untouched land.

Meanwhile in another story, Julie and her fiance Rick hike six hours into the mountains to visit her brother Wade, an awkward ranger who likes his solitude. Rick wanders the mountains and burns down meth labs hidden in the woods. Not sure how a single ranger can control a gasoline fueled fire in the wilderness, but best not to consider these things.

While surveying the land, the students find huge footprints with three toes, and decide to find whatever huge creature has been tromping around. Brilliant! As can be imagined, this goes horribly wrong.

While the body count rises, the two stories converge (so much for land humans have never touched), and sasquatch is a-killing everthing in sight. When sasquatch is near, the camera shakes and lines like scratches on film appear on the picture. Also there are fast cuts so you can't tell what is happening and cgi blood flies around.

The sasquatch has wierdly long arms, silly rubber feet and a silly rubber monster suit. Also strange is Rick's hair which from the back looks like a toupe. I'm not sure whether it is, or it's just a really bad haircut.

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